Kindle (Basic)

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

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

Things like this are going to continue as long as people are continuing to buy kindles and kindle books through Amazon. They don't have the market cornered the way they think they do. I switched to Kobo last year and will never own another kindle. Much more user friendly and overall better experienc

A amazon é o maior câncer que chegou no Brasil dos estados unidos. Eles inventaram esse negócio de kindle, todo frufru, com uma luz diferenciada e tals e tals, mas isso só presta pra eles prenderem o consumidor na loja deles. Daí qualquer coisa que eles acharem problematico demais pra eles, eles vão

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

Amazon is deliberately blocking the use of perfectly fine hardware to push their shitty form of capitalism. They absolutely have the ability to support the older Kindles but made this choice in order to push additional purchases of new devices. It's not about getting your money's worth. Why does any