I just jailbroke mine last week. KOreader + Bookfusion plugin gives me access to my entire library anywhere, anytime. Good stuff.

I feel like we'd all be fine with giving the proceeds of this class action lawsuit to KOreader, since they are the only reason many of us are still able to use our Kindles.

Nothing will change. I bought myself a brand new iPad mini for university back in 2013 and used it like twice for notes and stuff but ended up getting annoyed and just going back to pen and paper.

Fast forward about 5 years and I had barely used the thing and kept it clean as a whistle and stored. I turn it on, update it all and its just a fucking brick. Can't load shit, can't browse, can use apps without freezing, crashing, etc. Its just a thing, expensive POS brick.

Phones just recently got better about this. They're all 7+ years now, which is enough specifically for phones. Maybe not for other things.

It's not even necessarily the end of support and updates for old products. If I have a Black and Decker drill from 1920, it's not reasonable to expect them to still service it.

But what is unreasonable is allowing Black and Decker to break my drill. And that's what Amazon is doing when they restrict access to content that was previously viewable on the older models.

But the kindle in the Kindle was the truth.

Meandle

I spend two hours the other night just getting nicer covers for my ebooks. I don't regret it.

you'll get the depreciated value for your device minus lawyers fees.

So look foward to getting a check in the mail for $1.37

What firmware version is it on? Boot it away from any wifi and turn on airplane mode before checking.

You might be able to jailbreak it and make it permanently usable.

Can't you still transfer content to them? Just pirate everything you paid for and manually put it on there. I have a newer Kindle and I have never once connected it to their servers, just use Calibre.

Can confirm, I did this with mine and got new life out of it. Also, it can finally open PDFs.

if you take mass transit, its a great way to pass the time

for me the biggest most amazing feature was the opendyslexia font being built into the system. Reading with dyslexia can become a difficult thing, especially if its Time Roman. But I found that I could read and comprehend effortlessly with that font. I read Candide, Don Quixote, Count of Monte Cristo... books that I would have never imagined that I could have read and wouldn't have been able to without that font and the kindle to make it accessible and always kept my page and only gave me a page at a time so I wouldnt get overwhelmed with the size of the book. DQ and CoMC are very long stories

!ebookreaders@lemmy.zip has some good info too

it's about Amazon not having disclosed this artificial end of life at the time of the purchase

Critically, the case claims that Amazon did not disclose to consumers at the time of purchase that the devices’ core functionality—that is, continued access to digital content on the Kindle Store—and users’ ability to update software could be reduced or eliminated for any reason at any time without a full refund of the purchase price.

The fundamental difference is that obsolete computing hardware used to be difficult for owners and third parties to toy with only due to its inherent complexity, not from malicious intent. This difficulty could be overcome, both in theory and in practice, and with time and effort and a sufficiently persistent community (often reflecting the scale of adoption of the device in question) the difficult parts quite frequently would get overcome eventually.

Especially since the DMCA, there's been a huge increase in the efforts of companies to "secure" their products against "hacking" and tampering using sophisticated, often uncrackable encryption keys, reliance on remote always-online services which they provide for free (until they don't, because it's not like they thought about that during the product design and who could possibly expect them to support their products forever?!), and time-locked and sometimes even physically self-destructing components. These kind of designs now completely saturate the marketplace, and it's also become illegal to even try to unlock them, thanks to the provisions of the DMCA and the lack of any workable exemption for right-to-repair or abandoned products no longer commercially viable.

Nobody expects a company to have to support their product forever. Of course that's unreasonable. But it is reasonable to expect them not to design things that intentionally turn into e-waste the moment they stop supporting them. It is entirely reasonable to expect them to design an end-of-commercial-life strategy for the products they develop and sell. This is why copyrights that are allowed to expire become public domain instead of having all the books with expired copyrights burned. Because we, as a civilization, chose to have that happen, and we made it part of the copyright laws. Why do we allow electronics to remain proprietary and encrypted when they are no longer profitable? Why not require them to be opened to the public domain too? Would this not be in society's best interests? It would not be in the interest of the companies interested in planned obsolescence, that's for sure, but maybe it's time to stop letting them decide. They have not been kind to us. Stop being kind to them.

it's about Amazon not having disclosed this artificial end of life at the time of the purchase

Critically, the case claims that Amazon did not disclose to consumers at the time of purchase that the devices’ core functionality—that is, continued access to digital content on the Kindle Store—and users’ ability to update software could be reduced or eliminated for any reason at any time without a full refund of the purchase price.