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by robomartin 2312 days ago
I have this problem right now, sort of. I purchased dozens of Kindle books through my personal Amazon account over the years. Now I prefer to do so through my business account. Yet, I want all of them available through the same device. Well, that’s a pain in the behind. I have to call Amazon support for help and have been procrastinating because I know it will be a one hour ordeal.

This is why I prefer to purchase digital books as PDF files. I keep them on Dropbox and my local drive and they are great to handle and read.

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Calibre. Convert those books to DRM-free formats asap and you're good to go. They become completely yours. I do it by default for all my Amazon kindle format purchases. It's "forbidden" but if I paid near physical book retail pricing for it, as far as i'm concerned, that copy of digital content deserves to be mine.
I was unable to do this for any recent purchase. Calibre could strip DRM only from very old books, like 7-10 years old.
I had this same problem and what worked for me was to download an old version of Kindle for PC, regardless of the age of the books. I think version 1.17 works. Have copies download to it and then try the Calibre conversion again.
This is why pirating is alive and popular, because it makes people's lives convenient, while the real sellers do many things to make people's lives difficult. You as a buyer are expected to bend and give in to their way of usage and their restrictions.