Kindle (Basic)

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

This. I own a 2012 Kindle and this is how I'll use it from now on. Amazon has just made sure that I won't ever buy a kindle again from them, although I think the device is great, mine works flawlessly still.

Kobo clara bw. It might be more expensive than the kindle basic but it's waterproof and has warm light and the kindle basic doesn't have those. You might also wait a couple of days and see if it will get any discounts.

I'm a daily user of a 2012 Kindle. It still works flawlessly and the battery is still strong, it's the best electronic device that I own and I hope that it lasts another decade. Due to Amazon's policy to make it less useful I won't ever purchase another Kindle.

Not being bricked, and 15 years of support is pretty damn good. Basically Amazon just isn’t letting you use their store because I’m sure it’s a nightmare to maintain that tier of hardware. Jailbreaking Kindles has never been a better experience, I’d 100% just go that route and add books via Calibre.

The hate for Kindle is based around a hate for Amazon, the device itself is not the problem.

Amazon versucht, den Abschied etwas abzufedern und verteilt einen Rabattcode an Betroffene für neue Modelle. Über jenen gibt es 20 % Nachlass auf ausgewählte Kindle-Geräte, der Code soll bis zum 20. Juni 2026 gültig sein. Joah, für mich wird es dann aber eher kein neuer Kindle. Mein Paperwhite von 2

For me this is amazon shooting themselves in the foot. I have a jailbrokekn 4th gen and could download awz3 files into calibre from the device, then reload them into Koreader perfectly. This means I can't do that any more. End result, I'm keeping my device. It works great, I don't want to create mor

Oof that reminds me of a post apocalyptic romance where in the epilogue from the MMCs perspective the FMC is going to give birth to twins and he basically says something like “meh, women have been doing this without medical help for thousands of years, no biggie” and I wanted to throw my kindle out

In recent months Amazon has been cracking down on your ability to move your purchased books library away from their ecosystem. They’ve been changing the drm and eliminating the ability to get the files from your kindle. These old devices are the remaining door for getting your library downloaded. If