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 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

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

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

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.

It likely has an old version of software running on it, to support software on kindles requires developers which costs money. As newer and newer models release with newer software, the costs to support increase as well because they have to support older models and newer models. This sucks, I don't d

But some old school part of me just hates Kindles. I also use to hate ebook readers with an "old school passion". Then I got one. The convenience of essentially having a library I can carry round with me was just too seductive. (I had a Kindle for several years, but then got fed up with the changes

TL;DR: OP’s problems are user error It’s a very bad and misleading summary because OP is purposefully clicking on the home page, which they would never have to see otherwise. The purpose of that page is literally to explore ads for new books that you might like. For example, it currently shows me ni