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hlthe2b

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1. Pretty unbelivable.

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Fri Feb 21, 2025, 01:55 PM

Feb 21

Yes. You need considerable space on your laptop, an external hard drive or a cloud account if you have a lot of books to download.

I have medical books--very detailed and enormous digital files that I have purchased so I am pissed royally.

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Feb 26 deadline from Amazon re downloading Kindle ebooks we bought [View all] UTUSN Feb 21 OP

Pretty unbelivable. hlthe2b Feb 21 #1

Are a lot of that embeded media files? LuvLoogie Feb 21 #3

Well, two volumes of Ettinger's Internal Medicine total 2, 448 pages... access to 750 online videos... hlthe2b Feb 21 #4

Ebook Kindle files don't take up that much space LuvLoogie Feb 21 #2

Thank you. UTUSN Feb 21 #5

"Three alternatives to Amazon/Kindle" UTUSN Feb 21 #6

I won't use Kindle any longer. mike_c Feb 21 #7

I deleted my Amazon account entirely. hunter Feb 21 #8

Bookmarking. love_katz Feb 21 #9

Am going to spend Saturday afternoon figuring out Calibre UTUSN Feb 22 #10

More bad news: My purchases all are marked "not available for transfer" UTUSN Feb 23 #11

The last of it for me. Had a brief few minutes of success, then all hope dashed *finally*. UTUSN Feb 23 #12