Kindle (Basic)

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.

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

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

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.

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 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