[bee_rider]

It’s sort of funny that this kind of thing could be, not just something that they will probably just get away with, but totally uncontested and not even surprising really. Just sorta like, yeah, obviously you don’t own your library and they’ll cut off access to it whenever they want!

[NetMageSCW]

Access to your library continues to be available with free apps on phone, or Windows, or a newer Kindle as well as any browser, so the loss of support of 14 year old mobile devices doesn’t seem like huge news. There can’t be too many still in use even.

[bee_rider]

The article appears to be about “Kindle for PC.” It does look like there’s a Windows 11 app, though, for folks who’ve switched to the post-QA OS.

[mh-]

I would expect most of them have had their batteries fail long ago. Especially if they were disused for an extended period of time.

[aaronscott]

I replaced the battery on my kindle 4 not that long ago. It had the best UX for extended reading when compared to newer kindles.

The biggest downside was not having a frontlit display.

I recently switch to an xteink x4, and found that several others in that community migrated from kindle 4s as well. So there are still some number of users in the world that value the device.

[mh-]

I'm sure there are, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. It's just that the numbers are relatively small.

I'm actually surprised that Amazon didn't offer to do a buyback of them.