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  • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•User anger as Amazon ends support for some older KindlesEnglish
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    2 months ago
    • When support ends, you cannot download any of your purchases.
    • If you factory reset your device, it will not work. Literally, this is what Amazon said. You will not be able to use your device if you ever need to factory reset it.
    • The only thing you can do is read the books you already downloaded.

    It’s perfectly fine to no longer make updates for legacy hardware. But to prevent users from downloading the books they paid for is absurd. Ebooks are just fancy packaged HTML files. No reason Amazon should prevent you from downloading them.

    The average consumer is screwed and will buy a new device. The more technical users will just jailbreak it. Regardless, this will create lots of ewaste as the average consumer is far from technical.

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