How to Back up Your Kindle Books to Computer
Amazon has got a pretty thorough ecosystem for Kindle, especially in eBook buying, managing, publishing and reading. So why should we back up Kindle books?
Believe it or not, your Kindle books are not really owned by you, Amazon would permanently delete your books from your Kindle library without saying a word. For example, your account got hacked , and Amazon decided to unilaterally close it, and you would lost all your purchased books.
So my advice is that do not trust any of the ebook sellers. Please remember, you don't really own the eBook even if you buy it, you just have the rights to read it. This is really nonsense, right?
Fortunately, this article offers you two ways to back up your Kindle books in a place away from the Amazon Kindle, and truely own them. One is from Kindle for PC or Mac App, another is from your Kindle eReaders, such as Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Voyage.
The Restriction to Backup Your Kindle Books
The only restriction to backup Kindle Books is Digital Rights Management (DRM). Why should we remove Kindle DRM to back up the books? Can we just copy the downloaded .azw files into a new folder directly?
No, we can't. In fact, if Amazon wipes a book from your Kindle library, you are not allowed to read it even you have the .azw file because Amazon tells the content server that you are not the owner of the book any more. And the connection between you and content server is the DRM. That's why you need to remove DRM to back up Kindle books.
This tool helps you remove Kindle DRM and back up eBooks: Epubor Ultimate. Click the buttons below to download it for free. We will use it later.
Backup Kindle eBooks from Kindle for PC/MAC App
First visit Amazon official website and download Kindle for PC/MAC app, register the Kindle for PC/Mac with your Amazon account, then all your purchased items will show up in the main screen.
As you see in the image, I've purchased 6 books on Amazon, but all of them are on my Kindle Cloud, which are not safe. Now double-click on the book cover to download the books you want to back up to your local drive.
To make an example, I download 3 of them to my computer for a safe back up.
Now running the Epubor Ultimate, it will automatically scan your Kindle content folder, all you need to do is drag and drop all the DRM books to the main interface. You will see all kindle books are decrypted. It is so easy to remove DRM from Kindle books with Epubor Ultimate, right?
Now the books are really belong to you, if have some ereaders like Kobo, or Nook, you can even convert Kindle books to pdf or epub with Epubor Ultimate.
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Backup Kindle Books from Kindle eReader
If you don't use the Kindle for PC or MAC app and still want to backup your Kindle books, you can just connect your Kindle eReader to computer. Believe me, doing this won't take you more than five minutes.
First, connect your Kindle eReader to the computer via USB cable.
Second, run Epubor Ultimate, it will automatically detect your device, and all your Kindle books will display in the left column. Just simply drag them to the main window, then the DRM protection will be removed.
Third, after finished to remove DRM from all your Kindle books, you can right click the decrypted book and click "explore decrypted file" to find your cracked kindle books. Or just click the output folder icon at the bottom right of the Epubor Ultimate to locate them. Then you can copy them to a new place on computer . You can even backup these books to Dropbox or mobile hard drive for safety.
Next time, if you accidentally delete books off your Kindle, or Amazon erase your Books from your account, you can always find all your purchased Kindle books from backup folder.
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Q: I have more than kindle books in my account. Is there anyway to download all kindle books at once?
A: Sure, you can download all your Kindle books at one time no matter how many books in your account. Log in your Amazon account and then find "Manage Your Content and Devices ". Under the content tab, please click on "Select All" button.
After all kindle books at your library has been selected, click on "Delivery" button to select which device do you want to deliver your Kindle books to.
In the pop up window, you will see all your books have been added, just click on "Device selected" and select your Kindle for PC, then click on "Deliver". All your purchased kindle books will be downloaded to your Kindle for PC.
Once it's done, just open your kindle for PC, you will see all your Kindle books has been downloaded. This method also works well on Mac computer.
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Jonny Greenwood joined Epubor since , loves everything about eBooks and eReaders. He seeks the methods to read eBooks more freely and wants to share all he has got with you.
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