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We need a digital media freedom law, so these companies can't hold books/movies/music hostage anymore. It is so ridiculous that we can only access media we bought from one app or device.

Amazon is still working out the logistics of sending people to your house to black out the pages of your physical books with a sharpie.

Yay more e-waste. Thats exactly what we need

In a functioning government, there would be consumer protections against this horseshit.

So glad I didn't fall for the Amazon/Kindle trap

Amazon, where the customer experience is simply a middle finger

Funny, all of the paper books I bought before 2012 that are still on my shelves are able to be accessed and read at any time.

And this is why I buy physical copies of anything I really care about and make sure they will at least probably be available (preferably for a decent price since I already bought it once) if necessary for things I care about, but slightly less and so went digital anyway.

I think that speaks to the heart of why they're doing this. Older Kindles have been the easiest way to break their DRM on ebooks for years.

I moved to desktop & mobile apps for my ereaders awhile ago, then use 3rd party software to jailbreak the DRM to let me save & read the files anywhere

Good luck with that in France! It became the first country to outlaw planned obsolescence, defining it as deliberately shortening a product's lifespan to increase replacement rates. The law carries penalties of up to two years in prison and fines of 300,000€, or up to 5 percent of annual turnover

You can still download books published before April 2025 to a computer and then use a DeDRM plug-in in Calibre to convert to other formats, including epub. There's a bit of friction and learning curve, but for the most part it's pretty easy.

“Haha, fuck you amazon customers!” -amazon

Fortunately for me kindles only ever last around two years. Will switch to a different e-reader next time

There's a reason I won't buy anything produced by Apple or Amazon. Proprietary shit is just that - shit

1) Airplane mode 2) Calibre

So. Back to the library.

I bet people are already hard at work coming up with hacks to bypass this.

who would've thought, Amazon doing a pr blitz for good old books on paper 🤷

Greedy bastards.

I don't want other services I just want to read books. Between this, ads on Video and the loss of next day delivery, what is the point of Prime membership any more? No other current ereader including modern kindles manages to give me the form factor I want, with physical buttons on both sides.

The endless march of obsoletism perfected by Apple marches on.

TiVo has stopped manufacturing its hardware but says it will continue to support existing hardware. I image it won’t be too long before existing "lifetime" channel guide subscriptions die.

Fuck that greedy twat

Congrats, u now have a piracy device

Me too. My VAIO was the first touch screen. They were still working like new when the support ended. With free engraving too!

digital media is fucking frivolous.

If they can still read the books you bought before then I'm kinda 🤷‍♂️ All sorts of new tech (think PCs, phones) stop getting new stuff.

Yes.

Gotta love that “lifetime” LTE access that came with the early kindles …

In contrast to the current kindle fire that is unusable right out of the box.

I have an even older kindle, so I've already been working around similar nonsense for years. I will absolutely never buy a new kindle, and am glad I got mine very cheap and used.

Airplane mode, Calibre, Anna's Archive. You're welcome.

Huh. You know what all those old ones do? They store all you books locally. Yeah, I can see how they'd hate that. Indeed, the time has come to stamp out the whole idea that ordinary people should be allowed to buy and own things rather than paying their betters rent for them.

I gave up on my old kindle and use the Kindle app on my tablet instead.

i yelled at amazon enough yesterday that they sent me a new one for free. i encourage everyone to do the same

CORRECTION: Snowsky is the MP3 player I also got from AliExpress This is is a Xteink X4

Jailbreak your kindles. Get Kobo in the future

WaC.

Public Libraries and their Libby app for the win!

Nerd!

Some authors are starting to sell direct: www.bearmountainbooks.com/home/authors...

Not too many days in 2026 when you’re vindicated as a member of the “e-reader? No thanks, not interested” dinosaur brigade. I do feel badly for those who rely on ebooks due to an inability to access print though.

I've never had a kindle that has lasted more than 2 years anyway.

Read paper legit books whenever possible. The world is being betrayed by their own governments and the tech bros Treat governments and tech bros that do not support the people as cancer. Everywhere. Every time.

Does this mean all the books you bought will disappear, or that you can’t buy new books?

Do first edition Kindles have long term value?

lol well the IOS update usually starts to slow things down to make it irritating to use the older models (unless things like AI where the experience could be horrible on the older models).

They've recently laid off over 30,000 people and still can't afford the 1 person who can support the older Kindles.

My copy of War & Peace. Oxford World's Classics. 3 vols bound into 1, 1500 pp. Printed 1957, 2 years before I was born, & good for another lifetime. No bulb-headed MegaloOligoPath will ever be able to turn it off.

Wish we could pull support from Jeff Bezos, but americans can't seem to figure out how to order things from literally anywhere else, apparently.

Be fair. Bezos has got important lifestyle choices, and cover for dead warehouse workers to fund.

So mad about this. Pure greed. My kindle works perfectly. Absolutely no reason to kill it.

They aren't doing that in this instance. You'll still have all of the books on the Kindle, you just can't buy more.

If you love them, set them free. Or at least jailbreak them. www.zdnet.com/article/your...

Good thing I don't buy any books from Amazon!!! Never giving them a cent if I have a choice

you know, helicopter yachts don't pay for themselves

Will this also affect devices' ability to sync with other services, or just the store itself?

I will just leave this here www.mobileread.com/forums/showt...

If you get a kobo and have a library card you can read ebooks for free

There's planned obsolescence and then this, how's this greedy behavior called?

If you rebuy (or buy at all) check your favorite authors. Some of them are selling direct and those books and audio can be put on many devices. I have been buying direct when I can (my list so far. I have not purchased from every author on list): www.bearmountainbooks.com/home/authors...

so you're saying it's a good time to switch every ebook app over to a B&N Nook device! Okay.

Seems like a great time to spread the good word of Kindle jailbreaking: kindlemodding.org

Joke's on them, all the books I download on my old kindle are pirated

Can we pull financial support for tech execs and bros who are over 55? Take away their access to society and money

No worries. I have a Kobo ereader and I love it. Bye-bye kindle keyboard!

Ding ding ding there we go.

Lol i guess I will continue to be able to side load whatever I want into any device I already have?

This is a great reason to never buy a Kindle.

These were such good devices. What other portable tech do you have that's lasted this long?

Im so glad im Chinese with my tech fuck bezos and yay piracy

A list I compiled of authors selling direct. If I've read the author, I put a picture next to the author name: www.bearmountainbooks.com/home/authors...

I'm already knowing

If you've decided to switch away from buying ebooks from Amazon, try these DRM-free ebookshops instead. My list currently includes over 500 ebook, digital comic, magazine, and RPG bookshops - all selling in formats that you actually own, get to keep, and read on any device.

Is there a sale on new Kindles through Amazon?

Glances over at his 4 full bookcases. In this room.

Licensed access. Same concept: you pay for something and you explicitly do not own it. "Shit sucks" still very applicable

"You will own nothing and you will be happy." #wef

Half the reason I've never bought an e-reader. The other half is realizing I don't retain anything longer than a news article when reading on a screen.

They make it sound like the support was a just a random arbitrary decision or o e based on $ (which could be the case). If this has anything to do with the support of newer encryptions and depreciation of older insecure ones. That could have easily added a little color to the conversation.

You will own nothing and like it. Also, everything you need to exist is an individual subscription subject to constant fuckery by us.

All the ebooks you bought for kindle have been silo’d to kindle and in reality you own nothing.

#CorporateGreed #KINDLE

Jailbreak your shit, people. We don't need functionnal tech to end up in landfills just because the manufacturer decided they'd prefer if you were forced to buy new !

Oh, yeah. I'm running to get a new one right away. Be right there. Sure.

No company can end “support” for your real, physical, printed books.

Fine. Don't use mine anymore!!!! I moved to an iPad mini years ago.

Planned obsolescence

Looks at Bookshelf