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Kobo
CA$179.98
Clara BW
410 opinions
364 positive4 neutral42 negative
Amazon
Kindle (Basic)
51.2/100
449 Reddit opinionsRedDB rating based on Reddit opinions
265 positive5 neutral179 negative
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An extra $20 to remove ads from a Kindle you’d own to read books you pay for
You can jailbreak your kindles! There are easy to follow guides online and I highly recommend it! Fuck Amazon
Scarmeow in r/Anticonsumption
January 23, 2026 at 4:47 p.m.
2.3k
Amazon to end support for older Kindles, prompting user outcry
Stick the Kindle in "Airplane mode", and just manually upload your books. Been doing it that way for years, as it also prevents Amazon removing purchased books form your device when they remove them from the store.
RooneytheWaster in r/books
April 10, 2026 at 11:01 a.m.
2.2k
User anger as Amazon ends support for some older Kindles
Reminder that you don't actually own any of the content Amazon provides. They can cut off access at any time, for any reason. Convert everything you care about. Of course you don't own anything that runs on the device you are reading this on either .... but that's a different problem https://joelhoo
...VerdantPathfinder in r/technology
April 12, 2026 at 5:31 p.m.
370
this censored version of 1984
Fun fact, Amazon once (in 2009) removed this book remotely from Kindle readers. I don’t remember specific, probably something about copyright issue, but it’s literally the worst book to do this with.
ivenesco in r/mildlyinteresting
February 25, 2026 at 12:01 p.m.
708
User anger as Amazon ends support for some older Kindles
I still do not understand how people gloss over this so easily. You do not own anything on your kindle. You do not own the digital games, movies or anything on Amazon. At any time Amazon can remove anything you have and you can do nothing. It is all worded that what you pay for is a license to use t
...synapse187 in r/technology
April 12, 2026 at 5:37 p.m.
127
Starting in May, pre-2013 Kindles won't be able to buy or download new books
I removed the drm from all of my Amazon books before they killed download and transfer with USB functions from within the store. I’ve got a kindle I still use and a kobo I use more - neither ever connect to the internet anymore. I’m never buying again from any company that doesn’t let me download un
...notmyrealfarkhandle in r/books
April 8, 2026 at 5:15 p.m.
348
Amazon to end support for older Kindles, prompting user outcry
I don't know, but I'd speculate that ads are what this is all about. The older devices probably can't support the kind of ads and spyware Amazon would like to load onto Kindles (and run in the background). These are the "updates" they're talking about. I've read journalists unskeptically yammering o
...Generic_Commenter-X in r/books
April 10, 2026 at 1:33 p.m.
341
So after playing with both Kindle and Kobo for a few days, I gotta say — the hate for Kindle and the hype around Kobo are both kinda overblown
The hate for Kindle is based around a hate for Amazon, the device itself is not the problem.
w1gw4m in r/ereader
October 16, 2025 at 9:16 p.m.
279
Starting in May, pre-2013 Kindles won't be able to buy or download new books
It's not software you put on your Kindle, it's software you put on your computer that allows you to transfer ebooks to your device without Amazon shenanigans.
mglyptostroboides in r/books
April 8, 2026 at 5:30 p.m.
234
UKLAOP finds out you can't force companies to support a decade old piece of tech
The lack of empathy on here just because they didn't know where to turn for advice is really quite something. It's great that you're the world's leading expert on how to use Kindles without Amazon but this person just sees a big company choosing to make their product obsolete. I can understand why t
...cloud__19 in r/bestoflegaladvice
April 10, 2026 at 11:59 a.m.
185
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