Kindle (Basic)

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.

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

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.

I doubt LAOP has a lot of legal options, but you can load a kindle without the Amazon kindle store. That’s how I’ve put a lot of books on mine, as I had a lot of ebooks already before I had a kindle. I feel really bad, this sounds awful. But I don’t see how anyone can realistically force Amazon to c

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

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.