u/Ancient-Cry-6438

I’m trying to download all my books before support is cut next week (I have not yet jailbroken my Kindle Keyboard, but I plan to do so). I downloaded about 15 books just fine this afternoon through the manage your content and devices page, and when I went to send the next batch of books to my kindle (another ~15) just a minute or two later, nothing would download. Everything gets stuck saying “pending - 0%.”

I’ve spent all evening and night trying everything I can think of to get books to download again, to no avail. I’ve tried:

- Restarting at least 10 times, both through the settings menu and by holding the power button
- Turning WiFi on and off countless times
- Switching WiFi networks to my phone’s hotspot and back several times
- Restarting my router
- Downloading/sending the books to my kindle from both the manage your content and devices page and the archive on the device itself
- Syncing countless times
- Cancelling and retrying downloads one at a time, and trying different books
- Deleting a book I had just downloaded this afternoon (so I know it’s compatible) and attempting to redownload it
- Waiting hours to see if it was an issue on Amazon’s end that would be fixed (even though the Amazon website works fine and the kindle was clearly connecting, because it would show the books as pending on the downloading page)

Nothing has worked. The only thing I have not yet tried that I can think of is a factory reset, because I’m worried I won’t be able to reregister the device if Amazon has cut services a week ahead of what their letter said.

Is anyone else having this issue, and if so, what model kindle do you have? I’m really hoping it’s an issue with Amazon’s servers, and not that they’ve cut my device off a week ahead of schedule.

Is there anything else I should try that I haven’t tried already? I really don’t want to lose access to the books I’ve paid for. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

I’m trying to download all my books before support is cut next week. I downloaded about 15 books just fine this afternoon through the manage your content and devices page, and when I went to send the next batch of books to my kindle (another ~15) just a minute or two later, nothing would download. Everything gets stuck saying “pending - 0%.”

I’ve spent all evening and night trying everything I can think of to get books to download again, to no avail. I’ve tried:

- Restarting at least 10 times, both through the settings menu and by holding the power button
- Turning WiFi on and off countless times
- Switching WiFi networks to my phone’s hotspot and back several times
- Restarting my router
- Downloading/sending the books to my kindle from both the manage your content and devices page and the archive on the device itself
- Syncing countless times
- Cancelling and retrying downloads one at a time, and trying different books
- Deleting a book I had just downloaded this afternoon (so I know it’s compatible) and attempting to redownload it
- Waiting hours to see if it was an issue on Amazon’s end that would be fixed (even though the Amazon website works fine and the kindle was clearly connecting, because it would show the books as pending on the downloading page)

Nothing has worked. The only thing I have not yet tried that I can think of is a factory reset, because I’m worried I won’t be able to reregister the device if Amazon has cut services a week ahead of what their letter said.

Is anyone else having this issue, and if so, what model kindle do you have? I’m really hoping it’s an issue with Amazon’s servers, and not that they’ve cut my device off a week ahead of schedule.

Is there anything else I should try that I haven’t tried already? I really don’t want to lose access to the books I’ve paid for. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

I’m one of those people who still has a kindle keyboard. I’m currently working on importing all of my kindle books and personal documents into Calibre before that isn’t possible anymore. I would like to convert everything to EPUB.

If I import from my kindle keyboard, it will import everything as azw3, which does not have enhanced typesetting. However, it is by far the easiest way to import everything.

If I import from kindle for PC, I would have to figure out either how to run a Windows virtual machine on my Mac or how to do it all on my wife’s old computer that barely works, and somehow move that whole library over to my Mac. I am unsure how to do those things, and have been struggling to find any guides online for how to do it. However, it would import as kfx, which has enhanced typesetting.

My questions are:

1. When I convert to EPUB, would the fact that azw3 doesn’t have enhanced typesetting make a difference? Or does it all have the EPUB equivalent of enhanced typesetting anyway, once it’s converted?

2. Are there any reasons I should choose to go through the ordeal of importing as kfx versus azw3? Any benefits the format offers in how the books function or look once converted to EPUB? Are the images higher quality on one or the other?

3. Additionally, many of the books on my kindle keyboard were side loaded from a computer I no longer have and don’t have a backup of, either (it was like 15 years ago and I was barely an adult; I didn’t even know it was possible to backup computers yet). The azw3 (or mobi, for some) copy of the books on the kindle are the only copies I have. I would like to convert these to kfx to put on my newer gen kindle. When I do so, will that give the books enhanced typesetting capabilities? Would I need to convert to EPUB and then to kfx?

4. Lastly, how do I import and remove DRM from fixed layout books, such as graphic novels, without Calibre breaking up the pages in the middle of pictures and whatnot? Is there a plugin I need to use? Or specific settings, or a specific format? Or do I need to use a different program besides Calibre?

Thanks so much for any answers you can give!