Anyone who takes them up on their offer to buy a new Kindle should check themselves in for a mental health screening.
They just told all of their customers that you cannot trust a device you buy from them will continue to work in the future. So buy one from a different manufacturer and hope they aren’t as evil
I get that it may be expensive to perpetually support old devices but there is surely a middle ground between supporting them and bricking them.
Even if you have a large library on kindle I hope you have the ‘calibre’ to move devices.
Back in about 2010-ish? One of the first “amazon deletes your book remotely” events happened. They removed a Kindle version of 1984 from people’s readers.
I don’t know how much irony fits into an irony singularity, but Amazon is trying to make the most irony ever.
I used to have a kindle and it would periodically lock up and I’d have to do a hard reset and then re-download all my books. It was extremely frustrating. I finally got tired of it and ditched ti for a Kobo Clara. Whats nice about the Kobo is that it doesn’t have all the janky DRM bullshit, and it just works. You can load up books or pdfs from any source. So much happier now!
I mean to be fair I’ve had three Kindles now and am someone who uses old Fairphones and repairs them, and none of my Kindles gotten close to surviving long enough to potentially run into this problem of them no longer supporting it.
Which… is the actual reason one should not get a Kindle, tbh. They’re fragile as fuck.
Anyone who takes them up on their offer to buy a new Kindle should check themselves in for a mental health screening.
They just told all of their customers that you cannot trust a device you buy from them will continue to work in the future. So buy one from a different manufacturer and hope they aren’t as evil
I get that it may be expensive to perpetually support old devices but there is surely a middle ground between supporting them and bricking them.
Even if you have a large library on kindle I hope you have the ‘calibre’ to move devices.
Back in about 2010-ish? One of the first “amazon deletes your book remotely” events happened. They removed a Kindle version of 1984 from people’s readers.
I don’t know how much irony fits into an irony singularity, but Amazon is trying to make the most irony ever.
I used to have a kindle and it would periodically lock up and I’d have to do a hard reset and then re-download all my books. It was extremely frustrating. I finally got tired of it and ditched ti for a Kobo Clara. Whats nice about the Kobo is that it doesn’t have all the janky DRM bullshit, and it just works. You can load up books or pdfs from any source. So much happier now!
I mean to be fair I’ve had three Kindles now and am someone who uses old Fairphones and repairs them, and none of my Kindles gotten close to surviving long enough to potentially run into this problem of them no longer supporting it.
Which… is the actual reason one should not get a Kindle, tbh. They’re fragile as fuck.