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I believe that my Kindle is a 4th generation as well, but it strikes me as odd when I read your phrasing about the WiFi sync, so I’ll just expand on my use case, since I don’t use Calibre to sync.

The way I was able to sync was via email or uploading via web or using the Windows app (at work, because I don’t use Windows at home). It’s very likely that Calibre accomplishes exactly the same thing, but I don’t remember since sending via email was more convenient for me.

If it’s any help, it’s non-touch, without backlight. Two buttons on the left, two on the right, power at the bottom, and the 5-way selector on the front (lower middle).

That being said, I kept WiFi turned on throughout the EOL phase. The shutdown actually happened a couple of days later in my case.

I stopped being able to receive books via email, and the “farthest page read” stopped syncing between devices (I sometimes read a few pages from my phone). At this point I decided to turn on the airplane mode, mostly to save battery (and because I have no further use for WiFi at this point).

The device still works. And while I haven’t tried it yet (because I emailed myself a ton of books before the EOL), Amazon claims I should still be able to sideload books using USB.

I assumed that part about deregistering refers to the sort of factory reset you’re able to do. As one would do if selling it.

I never jailbroke mine, but I doubt it’s relevant at this point.

For me, it’s just as if I didn’t have WiFi.

I’m usually slow to respond, but feel free to ask if there’s something else I can add.

Yup. Probably the thing I’ll miss most -once they pull the plug- is sending books to my device via email.

It’s such a simple thing, yet incredibly useful. It’s not like sideloading with a USB cable is hard or anything.

The kindle itself is a very good piece of hardware.

And while it’s very convenient to purchase through Amazon, I’d rather spend my money on DRM-free options.

on 15 December 1988 · c/calvinandhobbes · 9 pts · 263d

I do that very often. I’ve found that people’s expressions are a lot less “stiff” that way.

Edit: it’s entirely possible I started doing it after I read this comic for the first time.

I’ll try to explain it in another way. First, let’s talk about “semantics”:

Usually we assume that a tarball contains multiple files, and a gz is a single file compressed.

So a .tar.gz file is a single tarball that has been compressed.

A .gz.tar is understood to be a tarball containing a single gzipped file. But if that’s indeed what the file is, it doesn’t make much sense to tar it in the first place.

Moving on to what you really want to accomplish: you can certainly create many gz files and tar them, but we wouldn’t call it a .gz.tar file since tar doesn’t care about the format of the included files. Much like a bunch of compressed PDFs aren’t named .pdf.tar

Also, I’d like to point out that neither tarballs nor gzipped files are optimized for modifying.