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At least for the kindle platform, they've stopped offering a USB option a while ago, precisely to keep people from circumventing their planned obsolescence.
Absolute cunt behavior. Glad I have an old one then.
Old or new, doesn't matter. They stopped allowing you to download books licensed ("sold") through the kindle shop in order to prevent you from putting them onto your device via cable.
...which makes "cunt behaviour" even more accurate. ;)
Sailing the seas it is then