Attention, Kindle owners – today is your last chance to download backups of your ebooks

• The Kindle’s Download & Transfer via USB feature is going away soon
• The feature will be disabled on February 26
• You’ll need a pre-2024 Kindle for this to work

Last week we got the news that Amazon was killing off an older but very useful tool called Download & Transfer via USB, which lets you download your ebook purchases to a computer. It’s set to disappear tomorrow – Wednesday, February 26 – so today’s your last chance to get copies of your ebooks.

Amazon hasn’t gone into any detail about why the feature is going away, but it’s most likely related to piracy. The Download & Transfer via USB option is one of the more commonly used ways to rip Digital Rights Management (DRM) protections off ebooks and distribute them to anyone.