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.
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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 :)).
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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 :)).
@neil What are they breaking?
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@neil What are they breaking?
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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 :)).
@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
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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 :)).
@neil I have a really old one that i'm not confident about powering back up given it's been drained for so long.
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@neil What are they breaking?
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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 :)).
@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)
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@neil What are they breaking?
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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 :)).
Did you see this open source reader?
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...
(concretedog.blogspot.com)
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Did you see this open source reader?
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...
(concretedog.blogspot.com)
Initial thoughts on the tiny XTEINK X4 ereader
What fits nicely in my hand and gives me hours of pleasure? A tiny ereader!
(neilzone.co.uk)
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> * 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.
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> * 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".)
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@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
@maybeanerd I am fine with this kind of approach, but Sandra users her ereader standalone.
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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!
(neilzone.co.uk)
Haha. It was from you in the first place. Silly me
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@maybeanerd I am fine with this kind of approach, but Sandra users her ereader standalone.
@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
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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 :)).
@neil I'm slightly impressed that it's still got a functioning battery!
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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 :)).
@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.
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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 :)).
@neil I wish there was something as good as Audiobookshelf for epub. One that also had firmware builds for kindle/kobo/etc
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@neil I'm slightly impressed that it's still got a functioning battery!
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