Starting 26th February 2025, Amazon is scrapping a niche but handy feature: the ability to download your purchased Kindle books to your computer and transfer them to your device via USB. What’s the big deal? Why does this matter? And can you do anything about it?

As expected, Amazon dropped some new Kindles onto its store this week, but what we didn’t expect was six new models, including one we’ve been asking for for a long time: a colour Kindle!