adarza comments on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

early models didn't have wifi, only usb or cellular from one provider or another--and those models' 3g connectivity was killed off years ago.

this will obsolete all the non-wifi kindles still in use.

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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You can still use calibre to sideload onto them. Where you get the books is another issue.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

So it just obsoletes them for the model users that buy ebooks from Amazon and put them on their Amazon device without conversion in between. Even though this user group should be Amazon's favourites.

lol, lmao even.

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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

The specific devices impacted by this are pretty old (I think only the first and second gen ones? So at latest 2009), so honestly I doubt they're very worried about it.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago

Yeah the companies obsoleting stuff are never worried about cutting off customers anyway. Fuck em.

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