I am in this club. I hate it. I don’t want a fancy new light-up Kindle! Mine works perfectly well!
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Now I’m extra glad that they replaced mine last year!
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I have the 4th generation one which still has the physical buttons on the side to turn pages and I love it. I don’t want to swipe or get distracted by other apps. I want it to be my magic book with tons of books in it.
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Yes. All of this!
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Will you jailbreak it?
They shouldn’t be allowed to brick devices like that.
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I’m not sure. Still in the shaking fist at clouds stage of raging about this.
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Well fuck. I have a Kindle Touch that’s working a-ok.
Guess I may be looking into a jailbreak.
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Well, shit. Did they give a date? Apparently I’ve read too many free Wired articles to find out.
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So much fun. I stopped letting my Kindle connect to the internet sometime last year since it still has software that lets me upload from my computer, and I wasn’t about to let them ‘fix’ that, but I haven’t bothered to jailbreak it since my (also perfectly functional but B&N made a mess even earlier) Nook already has epub support. Guess I might as well get around to combining the two…
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As long as you legally have ownership of your epubs and didn’t use the deDRM plug in, you can manage and convert all your ebooks on Calibre and load them onto whatever device you have.
Hopefully this kindle fiasco will lead to solid alternatives at a good price point
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Illegally owned de-drm’d epubs can be loaded onto anything as well.
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My kindle is from 2017, but I used calibre for everything anyway. 
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Pretty familiar with the tech, and the deDRM plugin isn’t the issue. I just prefer technology that functions perfectly well to be allowed to continue to do so without requiring the owners to jump through hoops for no good reason.
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For those that get books from me: I uploaded my huge archive to z-library.sk and deleted most of what I have on my hard drive.
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Get it after?? I think nephew will still be so happy!!
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May 20, so pretty soon. 
It said that stuff you already have on your Kindle will still be readable, you just won’t be able to download new stuff. 99% of what I use my Kindle for is for ebooks through Libby, though, so that makes it pretty useless for me.
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The weekly sales are not helping with meal planning ideas at all.
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I’m in the exact same boat and cannot overstate how devastating this news is and how emotionally attached I am to my 4th gen kindle 
My original one from 2012 broke last year and I replaced it with a newer one and hated absolutely everything about it and cannot fathom how the touchscreen does not drive everyone crazy. Only lasted a few months before I caved and bought a used 4th gen replacement which is now going to be useless (I use it almost exclusively to read library books) 
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