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.

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

This. I own a 2012 Kindle and this is how I'll use it from now on. Amazon has just made sure that I won't ever buy a kindle again from them, although I think the device is great, mine works flawlessly still.

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

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.

I'm a daily user of a 2012 Kindle. It still works flawlessly and the battery is still strong, it's the best electronic device that I own and I hope that it lasts another decade. Due to Amazon's policy to make it less useful I won't ever purchase another Kindle.

Not being bricked, and 15 years of support is pretty damn good. Basically Amazon just isn’t letting you use their store because I’m sure it’s a nightmare to maintain that tier of hardware. Jailbreaking Kindles has never been a better experience, I’d 100% just go that route and add books via Calibre.

The hate for Kindle is based around a hate for Amazon, the device itself is not the problem.

Since you've been DeDRMing your books anyway, there's really nothing keeping you in the Amazon ecosystem. I switched from Kindle to Kobo last summer and couldn't be happier.

Amazon versucht, den Abschied etwas abzufedern und verteilt einen Rabattcode an Betroffene für neue Modelle. Über jenen gibt es 20 % Nachlass auf ausgewählte Kindle-Geräte, der Code soll bis zum 20. Juni 2026 gültig sein. Joah, für mich wird es dann aber eher kein neuer Kindle. Mein Paperwhite von 2