They’re e-reading Amazon the riot act. Bookworms are lighting torches and sharpening their pitchforks in fiery fury as Amazon prepares to cease supporting older Kindle technologies …
It’s not really about the devices. It’s about DRM. Amazon has to keep a way for owners of old devices to be able to download books in a format the devices can read, and the DRM is trivial to remove from those files. By obsoleting them, they close the loophole and can only offer downloads that are harder to crack.
I’m honestly impressed anyone has 14-18yr old kindles that still worked.
Every one I have come across that old is either physically broken from wear and tear. Has a completely dead battery, or a glitched out screen.
It’s not really about the devices. It’s about DRM. Amazon has to keep a way for owners of old devices to be able to download books in a format the devices can read, and the DRM is trivial to remove from those files. By obsoleting them, they close the loophole and can only offer downloads that are harder to crack.