Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles

Companies ending bundle enactment for devices is simply a regular occurrence that tin ceramic products, unit customers to bargain caller stuff, and inevitably adhd to the ever-growing piles of e-waste crossed the world. The latest offender? Amazon.

On May 20, Amazon volition halt supporting immoderate of its Kindle devices released successful 2012 oregon earlier. That means these devices—even if they’re perfectly functional—won’t beryllium capable to link to the Kindle Store to download caller e-books. Amazon says affected devices see the first- and second-generation Kindles, the Kindle DX and DX Graphite, the Kindle Keyboard, the Kindle 4, the Kindle Touch, the Kindle 5, and the first-generation Kindle Paperwhite. According to The Verge, Kindle Fire devices volition besides beryllium affected connected the ebook front, though different apps volition inactive enactment connected the device.

The determination doesn’t wholly crook your e-book scholar into e-waste. On the older devices, you tin inactive work the books you person downloaded. You tin besides manually download documents via USB cable. It's unclear whether services similar Libby volition work, which uses the Kindle Store to present downloads. (Amazon did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.)

Other caller examples of companies sidesplitting parts of the bundle connected older devices see Spotify ending enactment for its Car Thing successful 2024 and Google discontinuing its older Nest thermostats successful 2025. In February, Netflix ended enactment for astir 87 cardinal older devices.

Should you privation to support your integer room successful Bezos-land, you tin entree your postulation via the Kindle app oregon connected a browser astatine Amazon’s Kindle Cloud reader. Or, arsenic Amazon truthful helpfully points retired successful an email sent to customers, you tin bargain a caller Kindle. (The institution is offering a 20 percent discount and a $20 eBook recognition connected a caller instrumentality if you usage the codification sent successful the email.)

If you’re uninterested successful staying a portion of the Amazon empire, determination are different precise bully e-readers retired there. You tin besides find ebooks connected Bookshop.org, which past twelvemonth started selling ebooks successful concern with section booksellers. Buying books determination sends portion of the proceeds to brick-and-mortar shops, which is astir apt bully karma for you.