<![CDATA[Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily.]]>Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily.

I use Calibre to load ebooks onto my my ereader, but I don't think that Sandra is going to want to do this.

What a shame, since this basically consigns a working device to the scrapheap of ewaste (unless I repurpose it :)).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/23464027-04f6-4846-955b-90260c24be0b/sandra-has-just-had-the-email-to-say-that-amazon-is-going-to-break-her-kindle-which-works-perfectly-well-and-which-she-uses-daily.RSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 17:57:50 GMTWed, 08 Apr 2026 07:53:26 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:26:58 GMT]]>@mini @neil my present Kindle isn't swelling, but it's definitely lasting less well.

Happily, the new Kobos are designed to be repairable!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kavlak.uk/users/ahnlak/statuses/116368606409682201https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kavlak.uk/users/ahnlak/statuses/116368606409682201Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:26:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:14:24 GMT]]>@ahnlak @neil me too! My Kindle Voyage (from 2017) is now unsafe because the battery swelled 😕

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://perfect.moe/users/mini/statuses/116368556961711904https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://perfect.moe/users/mini/statuses/116368556961711904Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:14:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:20:53 GMT]]>@neil I wish there was something as good as Audiobookshelf for epub. One that also had firmware builds for kindle/kobo/etc

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/milgrim/statuses/116368346545585058https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/milgrim/statuses/116368346545585058Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:20:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:19:37 GMT]]>@neil fuck those arseholes. Can you get the books off them and put them in Calibre? It’s possible to self host Calibre Web and create an OPDS feed that KOReader can use as a ‘bookstore’. If she’d prefer a new device, Boox are multi platform so have the Kindle app on them.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/ygathgoch/statuses/116368341571011758https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/ygathgoch/statuses/116368341571011758Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:19:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:05:44 GMT]]>@neil I'm slightly impressed that it's still got a functioning battery!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kavlak.uk/users/ahnlak/statuses/116368286991981622https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kavlak.uk/users/ahnlak/statuses/116368286991981622Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:05:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:52:44 GMT]]>@neil Oh I thought calibre/extra software would be the issue there

I _think_ you can continue using the store after some jailbreaks https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/post-jailbreak/re-enabling-the-store/ (haven't tried myself) although I wonder which part Amazon is killing that you were talking about - that might also affect this option

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bumscode.com/users/maybeanerd/statuses/116368235854874560https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bumscode.com/users/maybeanerd/statuses/116368235854874560Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:52:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:47:54 GMT]]>@neil

Haha. It was from you in the first place. Silly me 😁

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://expressional.social/users/lionelb/statuses/116368216840014530https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://expressional.social/users/lionelb/statuses/116368216840014530Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:47:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:42:31 GMT]]>@maybeanerd I am fine with this kind of approach, but Sandra users her ereader standalone.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116368195652516949https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116368195652516949Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:42:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:38:28 GMT]]>@rpbook @tom

> * You can continue to read books already downloaded on these devices, but you will not be able to purchase, borrow, or download additional books on them after that date.
>
> * If you deregister or factory reset these devices, you will not be able to re-register or use these devices in any way.

(I have not validated "use these devices in any way"; this might mean "in any supported way".)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116368179784116989https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116368179784116989Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:38:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:36:20 GMT]]>@lionelb

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Initial thoughts on the tiny XTEINK X4 ereader

What fits nicely in my hand and gives me hours of pleasure? A tiny ereader!

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(neilzone.co.uk)

🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116368171387205498https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116368171387205498Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:36:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:33:11 GMT]]>@neil

Did you see this open source reader?

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Xteink X4 with Open Source Firmware

 If you follow me over on Mastodon you'll no doubt have seen I have a new favourite device! The Xteink X4 is a tiny eink ereader which is pr...

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://expressional.social/users/lionelb/statuses/116368159006990885https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://expressional.social/users/lionelb/statuses/116368159006990885Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:33:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:07:31 GMT]]>@tom @neil I'm also curious. Will it just stop being able to connect to her account, or are they going to do more to it?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.phillipsuk.org/users/rpbook/statuses/01KNP23PXKX7CGZS5KBJ0RTNEKhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.phillipsuk.org/users/rpbook/statuses/01KNP23PXKX7CGZS5KBJ0RTNEKWed, 08 Apr 2026 08:07:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:05:09 GMT]]>@neil Gurr.

Were I prime minister there would be rules about this kind of thing.

A charge applied at the time of bricking, based on the number of devices in existence, a disposal fee if you will. Avoidable by open sourcing the firmware and providing unlocking instructions usable by non technical folk, verified by gov funded engineers (paid to be picky as heck) and hosted on a gov.uk domain.

(And it applies to any device bricked from now forward)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/emily_s/statuses/116368048756264083https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/emily_s/statuses/116368048756264083Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:05:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:04:43 GMT]]>@tom

Looks like they close the bookshop.

@neil

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.aquilenet.fr/users/tanavit/statuses/116368047062340459https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.aquilenet.fr/users/tanavit/statuses/116368047062340459Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:04:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:58:33 GMT]]>@neil I have a really old one that i'm not confident about powering back up given it's been drained for so long.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toast.dragon2611.net/users/Dragon/statuses/116368022775650361https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toast.dragon2611.net/users/Dragon/statuses/116368022775650361Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:58:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:57:22 GMT]]>@neil we jailbroke our old kindle, it's quite easy to do

Using koreader https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/post-jailbreak/koreader.html allows it to also render epubs not only the aws mobi format. This way, as long as you have the files (which you can buy from other platforms online, e.g. ebook.de) you can simply drag and drop them onto the device using USB. Calibre not required

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bumscode.com/users/maybeanerd/statuses/116368018115654455https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bumscode.com/users/maybeanerd/statuses/116368018115654455Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:57:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:56:48 GMT]]>@tom @neil If I remember correctly Amazon only let's you load E-Books over their Kindle Store. Previously you were able to also load them from their PC and back them up there too.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/K4mpfie/statuses/116368015918808069https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/K4mpfie/statuses/116368015918808069Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:56:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sandra has just had the email to say that Amazon is going to break her Kindle, which works perfectly well and which she uses daily. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:54:33 GMT]]>@neil What are they breaking?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.huginn.uk/users/tom/statuses/116368007042450012https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.huginn.uk/users/tom/statuses/116368007042450012Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:54:33 GMT