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From what the article says, that's doesn't appear to be true.

In order to download and transfer Kindle books from the Library, I have to first add them to "My Content" on Amazon, then from the Amazon interface click "Download & Transfer via USB". That's the only way to access the AZW3 files that get moved over to the Kindle.

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Oh, sorry. Didn’t realize you meant your kindle library. I thought you were talking about borrowing ebooks from your public library.

I was! Responded in a comment below. The public library serves the digital books directly through Amazon.

Either I'm missing something more obvious or the system I've seen libraries use for digital books over the past 10 years is more uncommon than I realized.

Oh. That’s bizarre. Never heard of that. Certainly not how any library I’ve used does it.

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