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
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Factory reset is bricking the device? Did I read that correct?

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Welcome to the future where you will rent everything and be happy about it!

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It doesn’t brick it, it purges the content, and you won’t be able to restore it through Amazon. You’ll have to use your local book manager and archive (you have those of course).

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Yeah I figured, it’s poorly written in this statement. Like the whole device becomes unusable.

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oh no i hope people don’t all read it like that and buy a new device because they think the old one will become unusable, that would be terrible!
It sure is a shame our massive worldwide corporation doesn’t have the resources to write less confusing messages, but there’s nothing to be done about it, how saaaaaad..

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Calibre is better than Amazon for ebook access anyway.

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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)

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do they not have wifi?

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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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