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If you occasionally use one of the Kindle reading Apps (e.g. to read Kindle books on your PC) you may have been welcomed by the friendly message saying:-<\/p>\nIf you occasionally use one of the Kindle reading Apps (e.g. to read Kindle books on your PC) you may have been welcomed by the friendly message saying:-<\/p>\n
“This version of the kindle reader has expired and cannot be used.”<\/strong><\/p>\n And your only option is to ‘OK’ the error and get dumped out of the reader application.<\/p>\n Not the best design from Amazon there then… so how do we fix this?<\/p>\n I hope you also love any products I recommend here as much as me. But just so you know, our site may receive a small share of the purchase price if you choose to buy after following a link on this site. It doesn’t change my opinion of course or the price you pay. Just to be clear.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The only solution to fix this<\/strong>, is to download the latest version of the reading app from here<\/a>, and install it.<\/p>\n Why does this happen?<\/p>\n Not sure.<\/p>\n There is an option to auto-update the reader (under Tools\/Options):-<\/p>\n But if you don’t open the Reader for a while, and it misses too many updates (one, two, only significant ones?) it seems the auto update is blocked — and you have to go and download afresh from Amazon.<\/p>\n So not the best design, and pretty irritating if like me you don’t actually own a Kindle, and just use the PC reader app once in a while for a book that isn’t available any other way.<\/p>\n Oh, and yes, for anyone who didn’t realise… Do you need a Kindle to read Kindle books (.azw or .mobi files)? Nope.<\/p>\n How can I read azw files on my PC? Easy.<\/p>\n There are free Kindle reader apps for Android, iPad\/iPhone, PC, Mac, Windows Phone 7 and even BlackBerry.<\/p>\n Download one of those FREE from here on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n Install it. Then just double click your azw file and it will open up in the Kindle reader, and off you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you occasionally use one of the Kindle reading Apps (e.g. to read Kindle books on your PC) you may have been welcomed by the friendly message saying:- “This version of the kindle reader has expired and cannot be used.” And your only option is to ‘OK’ the error and get dumped out of the … Continue reading ““This version of the kindle reader has expired…” & How To Fix It!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.millservices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.millservices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.millservices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.millservices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.millservices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.millservices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.millservices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.millservices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.millservices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.millservices.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nHow To Fix It<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nYou Can Read Kindle Books on a PC..?!<\/h2>\n