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cat_fishing@feddit.online to Calibre@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

PSA: old kindles are losing support. Use Calibre to load books instead

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PSA: old kindles are losing support. Use Calibre to load books instead

cat_fishing@feddit.online to Calibre@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
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    Calibre is better than Amazon for ebook access anyway.

  • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
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    I have a Gen 1 Paperwhite and didn’t receive this notice.

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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      https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/these-kindle-devices-will-stop-downloading-books-after-may-20-article-154026813

      • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
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        Thanks

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    Aren’t most of these already partly deprecated 5 years ago when 3G wireless shut down (in the us).

    I replaced my kindle back then

    (Worried about getting hit over the head with irony here so I had to check that “new”kindle: Amazon says its eleventh generation paperwhite so I’m well clear)

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      do they not have wifi?

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
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        I actually don’t remember if those ancient kindles had WiFi or if you’d need to sideload stuff. At the time they were not unusable but became a lot less convenient and the writing was on the wall

        I wasn’t too upset with upgrading because the device had lasted a lot of years for personal electronics and the technology had greatly improved

        I know we all fans of Libby and other library sources here, but that was part of the problem. At least at my library, you have a limited number of ebooks out at once and only for two weeks each. While that doesn’t seem like a hardship, it did mean that on a vacation I’d generally need to shuffle what books I had and I couldn’t guarantee to ever be on WiFi

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