Note that this has no repercussions whatsoever on your system. dmg in a specific folder, which is what we are going to make off-limits for the Kindle App. The Kindle app will anyways try to download the updated version's. Now - even if you turn down the option to download the latest version AND turn off the automatic updates, Amazon will force an update to version 1.33 or above at the next start-up. This should not really depend on the installation (the version is the same), so you should be able to do it by running in a terminal window: cd /Applications/Kindle.app/Contents/MacOS

You will basically need to do two things:ĭisable the forced and automatic updates of the Kindle app.įor the first step, as suggested by half of the internet, move to the directory where your Kindle app installation files are stored and make the renderer-test executable (responsible for the KFX encoding) non-executable. After removing from the device the books you bought and want to convert to your favourite e-reader-friendly format, go on and close the app. Be sure to turn down any suggestion from Amazon to upload to the latest version (1.35 at the moment). Once the app is installed, open it and log in. I know links are usually not that welcome, but this is an official s3. link: exe file (Kindle 1.30) from Amazon's mirror. Just the official executable provided by Amazon (downloaded from an official URL) and a couple of terminal commands that cannot harm your system in any way.įirst of all, download the official Kindle. The following guide is specific to Macbook users ( M1 chips and not), but for windows users should be very doable as well (now with the Windows Linux Subsystem, and being the executable provided officially by Amazon, it should be very straight forward).Īs I mentioned before, I'm not using any files that can harm your computer or so. I wanted to share with you the way I finally got to read the books I bought on Amazon on my non-amazon device again.

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