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    Verärgerung der Benutzer, weil Amazon den Support für einige ältere Kindles einstellt

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    3. jamestown30 on

      I know a lot of people will be pissed, and I too hate Amazon for a lot of reasons, but companies do eventually need to discontinue support for very old devices. A device that’s lasted 14 years (since 2012 in this case) with continuous support is actually not bad at all. If you really care about truly owning the content, just buy a physical book.

    4. CanadianPropagandist on

      I’ve gone back to buying local paper books years ago. I downloaded all my Kindle content while they were still allowing that and quit it basically.

      The kindle was great for travel but real books are still a better UX tbh.

    5. johnny5canuck on

      And people call me crazy for actually ripping CD’s/DVD’s and downloading stuff to my hard drive and then backing it all up.

      If that MP3, PDF, EPUB, MP4, MKV, etc file isn’t on my computer(s), its‘ availability is at the whim of the provider.

    6. ShankThatSnitch on

      Ending support for a 14 year old device isnt that crazy. That’s actually a fantastic life cycle. New Kindles are like $50-$100. If the new models get that long of a support cycle, thats like $4-7 per year of use. That’s one starbucks coffee or beer from a bar. Totally reasonable.

      Edit. Getting loads of very misinformed commenters who have no clue about what goes into supporting old technology, and why things like this have to have end of life cycles at some point.

    7. Inevitable-Chair4973 on

      I had kindle for years. Then out of the blue they started running ads. Canceled Amazon. Let them take all the books I bought, plus a couple movies. Have never purchased from them again. Never will either. Not one regret.

    8. Corsaer on

      I had a nook from the B&N days. Bought a Boox a handful of years ago instead of a Kindle because it’s great hardware with a open android system and I really didn’t want to be tied into the Amazon ecosystem. Also has an SD card slot.

    9. boomboomdaboomer on

      The multi billion dollar conglomerate can’t afford support for the devices that got them where they are today. 

    11. rab-byte on

      Hears a thought to combat e-waste and give right to repair teeth. When a company’s product support ends for any device an open source firmware bust be released that provides a published API for the device’s core functions to be managed locally. If this is not done then the company loses ownership of any intellectual property associated with the device.

      Device core functionality must be clearly differentiated from subscription service and from any functionality that will end when the device is no longer supported.

    12. OldHaggittyHag on

      I know I’m old, and reading these posts make me feel older and that they’re in a different language. Ok, talk to me like I’m 5. I was gonna say 12 but they’re smarter than me. I have over a 1000 books on Kindle, how can I save them to a flash drive?

    16. standardtissue on

      If you can’t physically hold it in your hand, you don’t own it. Not on a kindle, not on FIOS, not on Apple TV, Spotify or anything else.

    17. Kruxf on

      Guess the high seas it is for those people huh? Amazon is just gonna leave money on the table so be it.

    18. Mathblasta on

      For all of you affected by this who may not know:

      Calibre is a free, open source media manager for your eReader. Store your books on your computer, you can convert them between mobi, epub, and PDF, and upload to your eReader.

      Fantastic bit of software.

    19. Kitchen-Plant664 on

      This was why I bought a Kobo. Oh you may (and very likely did) laugh but at least I can side load everything I want should the need arise.

    20. CosetteDestiny on

      I have been here for a while’s my model is even older

      I download my books from the internet archive and I never looked back. 

    21. IIXcronusXII on

      From 2012 and older.

      Kindle: Kindle 1st Generation (2007), Kindle DX and DX Graphite (2009 and 2010), Kindle Keyboard (2010), Kindle 4 (2011), Kindle Touch (2011), Kindle 5 (2012), and Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation (2012)

      Kindle Fire Tablets: Kindle Fire 1st Gen (2011), Kindle Fire 2nd Gen (2012), Kindle Fire HD 7 (2012), Kindle Fire HD 8.9 (2012)

    22. Ms74k_ten_c on

      Are you kidding me? User anger? That’s like added bonus on top of the multimillion CEO salary. C-suite thrives on user anguish.

    24. star_lord47 on

      i have a kindle and i have never bought a single book. I just download the books from anna’s archive (epub files) and send them to kindle via kindle app. after a few minutes the books appear in library.

    25. sir_blackanese on

      Jailbreak and use KOReader to put epub, pdf, and cbz files onto almost any Kindle.

    26. mtcwby on

      I’d long given up on my first generation. No Wifi and the no supported by the mobile networks. It had a good run. The shocking thing is it still works. Only have kept it because it was a gift from my best friend who passed several years ago.

    27. BankingPotato on

      I got an XTeink X4 as my new e-reader after my 15-year-old Kindle couldn’t turn pages anymore. It’s very small and I love it, no extra frills. I just download whatever epub I want (including fics from AO3) and transfer it to the microSD card. No need for wifi or cloud. The only time I connected it to my wifi was to update firmware.

    28. Sad_Amphibian_2311 on

      Early kindles were built too well, doesn’t fit into the enshittyfication age of capitalism

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