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Old 07-29-2024, 06:19 PM   #1
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How to easily download Kindle Unlimied eBooks
I've found a bug on Amazon that works in our favor. It allows you to use Download and Transfer via USB to download Kindle Unlimited eBooks.

What you need is two Amazon accounts setup as family accounts. The account that has Kindle Unlimited will share the kU eBooks with the other account. The account that does not have KU can download the KU eBook that's being shared while the account with KU cannot download the KU eBook.

I don't know if this is limited based on the date like download via Kindle for PC 1.17 is. But it does work for older eBooks.
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Old 07-29-2024, 06:49 PM   #2
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They are loans and unless an actual Kindle connects, the author/publisher isn't paid.

It may be a bug, but it might be fraud to use it.

In some countries "Theft by finding" is crime, thus anything found mus the handed to an appropriate authority.
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Since the shared book allows download & transfer via USB I wonder if that means that Amazon isn’t treating it as a Kindle Unlimited book for that user. They may be handling it more like a library loan. If so then the author won’t receive credit for the pages read even if a Kindle is used for reading.
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Since the shared book allows download & transfer via USB I wonder if that means that Amazon isn’t treating it as a Kindle Unlimited book for that user. They may be handling it more like a library loan. If so then the author won’t receive credit for the pages read even if a Kindle is used for reading.
Presumably if you side-load the downloaded file on the specified Kindle, as it is intended for, it syncs to Amazon and author gets credit for pages read (if and when Kindle connects to Amazon).

Apparently the download feature for KU titles was disabled only last year:

https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...-usb-transfer/

Obviously they didn't bother doing this for the shared account. It's an edge case of an edge case, probably they will never get around to it.

I would not remember, but they might have had some 'fudge factor' to give authors reading credit for a download for a device that might never connect to Amazon.
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