Kindle (Basic)

You can jailbreak your kindles! There are easy to follow guides online and I highly recommend it! Fuck Amazon

Every kindle comes with an email address which can be used to send yourself books, you can find/change the email address for yours on the Amazon website. If they're cutting off access to download books from the kindle store, it sounds like you may still be able to find and email yourself copies. Als

They're not exactly bricking them (at least not unless you reset the device), they're blocking any ability to use the Amazon store. As long as you can live without the store and read existing titles, your Kindle will be still usable.

I'm a daily user of a 2012 Kindle. It still works flawlessly and the battery is still strong, it's the best electronic device that I own and I hope that it lasts another decade. Due to Amazon's policy to make it less useful I won't ever purchase another Kindle.

Not being bricked, and 15 years of support is pretty damn good. Basically Amazon just isn’t letting you use their store because I’m sure it’s a nightmare to maintain that tier of hardware. Jailbreaking Kindles has never been a better experience, I’d 100% just go that route and add books via Calibre.

TL;DR: OP’s problems are user error It’s a very bad and misleading summary because OP is purposefully clicking on the home page, which they would never have to see otherwise. The purpose of that page is literally to explore ads for new books that you might like. For example, it currently shows me ni

Since you've been DeDRMing your books anyway, there's really nothing keeping you in the Amazon ecosystem. I switched from Kindle to Kobo last summer and couldn't be happier.

Yes, and if you're worried about Amazon ever completely locking down your device in the future with a software update, just put your device in airplane mode and leave it there. Besides saving power, it prevents software updates. You don't really need them if you use Calibre to put books on your Kind

That is only one of the features of the device tho. Plenty of people here have abandoned amazon and still uses their kindle to sideload books they've bought elsewhere. That's the whole purpose of calibre - ebook management Dont need the stupid store

Best solution to this problem, by far in my experience. It's a little less convenient, but airplane mode + Calibre + USB cable is the way to go. I haven't used the Amazon store in years for e-Books, but my Kindle still works.