“If they were really loyal they would have bought a new device every year” - Amazon, probably

Stop buying this company’s products

Buy Kobo

The device remains useful. Jailbreak it. Or sideload books with Calibre over USB. The DX in particular is still a nice ereader.

Fuck Amazon.

I just bought a couple books on my Paper White model, and was thinking about how it's an older device that I really have no reason to update, and how refreshing that was these days.

Devices should be supported longer than 14 years. There is nothing about a 1st gen kindle that makes it incompatible with modern technology. For Amazon, an immortal entity, to act like 14 years is already gracious is nonsense. A 20 year lifespan (including repairs) should be the bare minimum standard.

Humans live 80-100 years. I shouldnt have to buy 6 or more e-readers (or 25+ smartphones) over my lifespan just to have access to one

Cutting them off from the online store is one thing, but the fact that they are bricked if you deregister or factory reset them is awful

I have a kindle keyboard that hasn't been online in over a decade, but still gets regular use. i upload drm-free ebooks i own using Calibre. Now it will be impossible for me to give it away since it is forever zombie locked to my Amazon account

I have multiple books from the Kindle store, but I've never used a Kindle.

Why does Amazon even need to have a sunset date (or perhaps how is it they can even define one?). Or do these 2010-2025 era Kindle device still get updates for tings like DRM?

The Amazon store stops working, you can still move either EPUB or the AZW files via USB, can you not?

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