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Folks who break the DRM on their #Kindle books, this is going to make that a lot harder: https://nsinteger.com/@zacwest/113991537960396621
This is fine for those of us who don't buy from Amazon anymore, but if you have a standing library with them, make sure you get it all downloaded so you can break it. It's frustrating because you can't bulk download - I keep finding titles I own but missed grabbing somehow - but you have until Feb 26th to get them all.
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@hollie How can we download our library to a laptop? I'm looking at the Amazon website but there's no option to download that I see. I don't have room on my phone for all my books
@3x10to8mps @hollie Click on your Digital Orders under Orders and Returns. Then click Manage Content and Devices next to the book you want. There will be a drop-down menu More Actions.
Click that menu, then you can select Download and transfer via USB which will let you save the file to your laptop's hard drive (or anywhere else you want).
@analogfusion The "download and transfer via USB" only tells me "You do not have any compatible devices registered for this content. Buy a Kindle or get the free Kindle reading app." even though I have the Kindle app on my phone and my PC. I don't seem to be able to download locally. 
@analogfusion @hollie @blue The same is true for me. I can't download out of either Kindle on iphone or PC and get the same message from Manage Your Content.
Also there is no help topic on Download and Tranfer vis USB
@3x10to8mps @analogfusion @blue Oh yeah I think you have to own a registered Kindle device, that’s the purpose of the download, it’s to side load them to Kindle devices that may not have WiFi or may have it turned off for some reason.
@hollie Oh! Thanks - that makes sense I guess. Just bought a second hand one on ebay. And found out that I could have had my old one repaired (battery fault and not charging 
) @3x10to8mps @analogfusion
@hollie @3x10to8mps @blue I guess it hadn't occurred to me that someone would own a Kindle but not have it registered, but that certainly would explain the errors people get.
@analogfusion it's also not owning a Kindle device but using the kindle app on mobile or PC, which kind of looks similar (to the system) as having an unregistered device. @hollie @3x10to8mps
@blue @hollie @analogfusion Ok I reinstalled the Kindle app on PC and was able to download my content to a default My Kindle Content folder within my Documents folder. Not via Transfer Using USB
All my purchased books are EBOK.azw, the proprietary Amazon KFX format. I installed the KFX Input plugin.
I can't convert due to DRM
Apparently I need to find and install Kindle for PC v 1.24 or older. I can't find it. I'm going to have to rebuy everything 
@blue @hollie @analogfusion WAIT! I found a solution. Here is a great stepwise how to install the older Kindle, DRM and KFX plugins, with links . It works!
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503#google_vignette
@3x10to8mps @blue @analogfusion Did you check that Reddit thread that had links to older versions?
@3x10to8mps @blue @hollie All you need to read and convert those .azw files is Calibre. It's free and runs on pretty much every OS.
@hollie @blue @analogfusion Thanks! I found further directions to handle the Amazon proprietary KFX file format. I got everything into Calibre as epubs
@3x10to8mps @blue @hollie Transfer by USB is a misleading phrase. All you really need to do is download the book files to your hard drive. Then you can use Calibre to manage and transfer to whatever device you want to use.