Amazon is ending support for older Kindles and Kindle Fires

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• BlackPenguins@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You know what doesn’t end of life? A book.

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  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 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.

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  • chaosCruiser@futurology.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is exactly the way I view piracy. Just watching a football match outside the fence, that’s all.

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• Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • buckykat@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• shath@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  jailbreak your kindles folks

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• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh nyoo, they ran out of money to support them :(.

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• Pherenike@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pocketbook rules

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