Kindle (Basic)

You can jailbreak your kindles! There are easy to follow guides online and I highly recommend it! Fuck Amazon

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.

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

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.

All of my books have been stripped of DRM, added to my Calibre library, and archived to my NAS via rsync. I’ve also converted them all to EPUB, deleted the native kindle formats, jailbroke my kindles to use KOReader, and stopped buying books from Amazon entirely in early 2025 as soon as I was able t

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

Every kindle comes with an email address which can be used to send yourself books, you can find/change the email address for yours on the Amazon website. If they're cutting off access to download books from the kindle store, it sounds like you may still be able to find and email yourself copies. Als

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

Back in the day I (mistakenly) set up my kindle with my edu email. When I eventually got a new kindle like a decade later, and went to set it up, I found that I couldn't even log in to my Amazon account with the edu email (it wanted a confirmation code from the edu email) and I lost what was probabl

They're not exactly bricking them (at least not unless you reset the device), they're blocking any ability to use the Amazon store. As long as you can live without the store and read existing titles, your Kindle will be still usable.