Older kindles can and should be jailbroken.

Removing DRM is likely completely legal.

After I had a Kindle book removed from my account and device years ago, I decided to strip the DRM from my books and host them myself. There are better ways of procuring and storing your media.

There are so many more brilliant alternative devices.
I jumped a couple of years ago and have never looked back.

Well, that's what happens if you make yourself dependent on outside resources like that.

I think you meant to post this to LeopardsAteMyFace.

The giant evil monopolistic megacorp enshittified another thing?

Wow!

No way!

Unprecedented!

They do this after they stop letting download what you paid for and transfer via USB.

I downloaded my whole library, cracked all the DRM and dumped the AZWs to ePubs as soon as they announced that, and sent in an account deletion request. When they made it a requirement to use their "cloud" to do anything with your Kindle I knew it was over.

We all knew it was coming, any way to screw us they'll do it, they don't need customer service anymore since they killed most competition and people are stuck with Amazon or Piracy.

Personally I'll send an author a donation if I can't buy direct from them in DRM-Free formats.

I was looking at a Boox Go Color to add in support for my manga and comics as well as my library of novels but with Android getting really creepy I'm not so sure I want to be tied to what I see as a dying ecosystem again because Boox uses it as their OS.

The Pine64 stuff looks like a good option, but it has no expansion, which was always a problem with Kindle since even their 128GB internal flash of the PineNote (that si much larger than any Kindle version) isn't enough to load my manuals. That's actually why I have the 1st Gen Kindle Keyboard, and not the DX, with so little storage and no expansion option the PDF support and a screen large enough to make things locked to formatting for 8 1/2 x 11 readable was pretty pointless.

I can totally empathize, I was so annoyed last year when Pinguin Random House UK stopped releasing security updates, I had to throw away half my books :/

I moved to a Kobo e-reader a while back as part of de-Amazoning my life, and while I'm annoyed that they've stopped supporting my 2011 Kindle Keyboard, it means I can finally close my account.

The Kindle is still perfectly usable after all these years. I jailbroke it not long after I bought it because I hated the wallpapers. I found a website where you could create your own, so I have a lovely array of images on it. One time I dropped it in the bath, and bought a new one. That turned out to be one of a run of KKs that developed a crack in the case, so I phoned customer service and sent it off for a replacement (I know, right?!?). While waiting for it to arrive, I dug out my old drowned reader and charged it up - and it was fine!! I sold the replacement when it arrived.

And now this: "To minimize any disruption, we're offering a promotional code for 20% off select new Kindle devices as well as a £15 eBook credit that will be automatically added to your account after purchasing a new device". As if. Fuck off.

Not your tech, not your cloud, not your book, it ain’t fucking yours.

You have just been renting a device and access to their content. You have been paying for convenience.

Theres an open source ebook called the PineNote, for those that dont want proprietary software shutting you down.

https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/

Kindle 11?

To be fair, 14+ years of supporting a device with software updates does not seem that bad, and the thing if I remember correctly was VERY cheap.

EDIT: Okay, I'm genuinely confused about the downvotes. Why is 14+ years of device support not good, Lemmy?

EDIT2: Okay, I see the problem now. Definitely not like phones no longer getting updates, it breaks the core functionality.