Amazon is finally saying goodbye to older Kindle devices.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260407215120/https://www.theverge.com/tech/908302/amazon-ending-support-kindle-fire-tablet-e-reader-pre-2012-older
Amazon is finally saying goodbye to older Kindle devices.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260407215120/https://www.theverge.com/tech/908302/amazon-ending-support-kindle-fire-tablet-e-reader-pre-2012-older
12 Comments
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 144d
So they’ll document how to root them for anyone who wants to run 3rd party firmware/OS, right?
pdxfed@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 144d
They'll send you paperback versions of the books you bought, right? New copies on a supported versions?
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 144d
You know what doesn't end of life? A book.
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 143d
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.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au · 1 pts · 142d
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.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 144d
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.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today · 4 pts · 143d
This is exactly the way I view piracy. Just watching a football match outside the fence, that’s all.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 143d
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.
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 143d
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?
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 3 pts · 143d
That white kindle is very cassette-futuristic.Looks like a prop from an Alien movie.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 144d
Oh nyoo, they ran out of money to support them :(.
Pherenike@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 143d
Pocketbook rules