Amazon is finally saying goodbye to older Kindle devices.
  • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    2 days ago

    So they’ll document how to root them for anyone who wants to run 3rd party firmware/OS, right?

    • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      2 days ago

      They’ll send you paperback versions of the books you bought, right? New copies on a supported versions?

    • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      You might want to have a quick think about what you just said because it’s definitely wrong lol. Books, like all physical media, have an end of life. Books especially are easily destroyed or lost.

    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      Well, I can think of a few things that could easily end a books life, but I guess they would also end a kindle’s life too.

  • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I’m still using a Kindle Paperwhite first generation. Mostly getting ebooks from Anna’s Archive than use Calibre to convert to azw. I also have it Jailbroken and installed a epub and better pdf reader. However, I barely use those.

  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    TBF:
    My two similarly aged non-Amazon EPUB-readers lost the capability to download DRM-books already 5 or 6 years ago.
    Certificates ran out, Adobe versions too old, no chance for firmware updates.

    Thankfully I am not really affected by it, as l anticipated exactly that early on.
    If a book was not available without hard DRM, I would not buy it.
    And acquiring it DRM-free by different means instead doesn’t even feel like piracy. More like what I did during typically sold-out open-air-concerts at my old place: bringing a picnic basket to the hill beside the stadion where they took place and listen from there.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I found an old kobo and they would not let me activate it due to it being unsupported. I wanted to wipe it and use it fresh. little did I know that I would cause me to have to activate it.

    I was able to find a hacky way to fix it and use an ereader.

    Why is everything like this these days?