Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
adarza@lemmy.ca 1 week agoearly 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.
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
You can still use calibre to sideload onto them. Where you get the books is another issue.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
So it just kills them for the model users that buy from Amazon and put it on their Amazon device without conversion in between. Even though they should be Amazons favourites.
lol, lmao even.
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
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.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Yeah the companies obsoleting stuff are never worried about cutting off customers anyway. Fuck em.