⚠️Amazon Kindles Pre-2013 - Planned Obsolescence⚠️
If you own a pre-2013 Kindle e-reader, including models with physical keyboards or physical page-turn buttons, Amazon have software blocked the device's ability to purchase any more titles from Amazon.
This change affects ALL Kindles built between 2007 and 2013. Expect this now to be a rolling issue for newer devices in time.
Users will still be able to read books already downloaded but not to buy any new titles. On top of that, if you happen to reset your Kindle, you will not be able to re-sign into your Kindle leaving you with a useless brick.
Devices include:
Kindle 1st and 2nd Generation, Kindle DX and DX Graphite, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle 4, Kindle Touch, Kindle 5, and Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation. 2011 and 2012-era Kindle Fire tablets will also lose access to the Kindle Store.
This is a big tech tactic to force us to consume me, create e-waste and make more profit. They drop support, drop future updates and often install one final ''death knell'' update to kill your device.
An item you paid money for, which you own and which in a sane world should be functional until the hardware breaks.
Being beholden to big tech's walled gardens is the issue.
Open-source devices and operating systems like Linux and GrapheneOS never kill off your device. Updates may eventually cease but there is never a ''kill all'' final push.
If you are tech-minded, open-source can help revive your dead Kindles.
More information here.
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