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    Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support

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    1. number1dipshit on

      Good! What kinda bullshit is that? You pay for a product and they just make it obsolete unless you break some rules? Fuck amazon

    2. thebunnymasked on

      Nothing says “I love books” like turning your Kindle into an underground hacking operation.

    3. ArcadeRivalry on

      My dad is not tech savvy at all, he loves reading. Years ago (like 2013) we scraped together to get him a kindle for Christmas and add a few books to it. He read all the books and couldn’t figure out how to add more. He didn’t want to bother me asking, but eventually did. I felt bad I never thought him how to do it in the first place so went over to update it and buy him a few more books a few years ago. Went into Amazon on it, signed into the account and hit update. The update bricked the entire thing. No jailbreak, no illegal downloads, just a few books purchased from Amazon and hardware they decided they want their customers to have to buy a new version of. 

      It’s hard to believe piracy is bad when the only “legal” solution is to rent off billionaires and hope you have the money to pay again when they decide they want more money off you. 

    4. Menzlo on

      I bought an xteink x4 (loving it) and a kobo clara b&w. Cya Amazon ecosystem.

    6. adeadbeathorse on

      PSA: If you’re looking to get into e-readers, just buy a Kobo Clara BW. $100, great screen quality, and you can upload all your own epubs and files.

    8. dragonblade_94 on

      I only got exposed somewhat recently after purchasing (and immediately jail-breaking) a new kindle, but the jailbreak scene for these things are wild. It’s a constant race between Amazon to patch exploits & independant devs to find new ones. The amount of custom software & functions you can do on these are cool as well.

      Needless to say, I recommend anyone buying a kindle with plans to jailbreak to immediately block firmware updates, or just never put it on the internet.

    10. Like_a_ on

      What is this bullshit? My son uses my old kindle paperwhite. If I need to buy him a new one it sure won’t be a kindle

    11. repair-it on

      I bought mine second-hand, and never bothered to connect it to the Amazon / internet. Hopefully that means they can’t ‘Brick’ it. I load my books via Calibre.

    12. GodLikeEnergy on

      I mean you can still load lets just say books onto it through usb. This just means you can’t directly get it from Amazon anymore.

      I think it’s better to lets just say…. get it from other sources. No, antipiracy, it doesn’t always mean to illegally download. it could mean gutenberg or [archive.org](http://archive.org)

    15. vctrn-carajillo on

      Oh god, here come the stories “my 150yo grand-grand parent loves his 20yo kindle and we should sue those companies for not supporting obsolete tech, yeah let’s sue them, that’s what we should do, it’s against the law! buy a new one and set it up for him? Nah, let’s bitch about it”

    17. Ok_Mountain_6404 on

      I bought a kindle 3G wireless in 2010. It was top of the line with an experimental browser. I loved it. I was traveling a lot back then and it was everything as advertised and more.

      It stopped working due to the end of support cycle in 2017. I haven’t been able to bring myself to buy one since. I’m so happy I haven’t bought another.

    20. King0fFud on

      This is why I went with a Kobo after seeing how locked down my wife’s Kindle was. I’ve never regretted it.

    21. Rymbegla on

      Why not use Calibre? Free, no need for wifi and very flexible on sources for content.