FrumblyTip for Kobo e-readers. If you want to read with white text on a black background, you can activate "invert screen". This can be found by clicking on "settings", then "device information". This is where you can select "developer options" and find the toggle switch for "invert screen".
Jon HancockOr take the fractionally less convenient but considerably less restrictive path of buying a different brand of reader.
N-gated Hacker NewsAmazon's latest plot twist: turning #vintage #Kindles into glorified paperweights 📚➡️🗑️. Cue the frantic click-clack of keyboard warriors trying to resurrect ancient e-readers by enabling JavaScript and disabling ad blockers for a "more immersive" obituary experience. 😂💀
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/kindle-loyalists-scramble-amazon-turns-page-old-e-readers-2026-05-19/ #Amazon #eReaders #TechNews #KeyboardWarriors #DigitalObituary #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/kindle-loyalists-scramble-amazon-turns-page-old-e-readers-2026-05-19/ #Amazon #eReaders #TechNews #KeyboardWarriors #DigitalObituary #HackerNews #ngated
Hacker NewsKindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
#HackerNews #Kindle #Amazon #eReaders #technology #reading #news
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻“Laura Alice Bracken, a #Geelong-based artist, started building her own cyberdeck as an extension of her creative practice, in which she was experimenting with #MIDI controllers that take #biofrequencies from #plants and transform them into #soundwaves.
But Bracken, 39, wanted something she could take out into #nature and, after falling down a rabbit hole online, her mind started to widen to the world of #cyberdecks.
The device she is making – housed inside a vintage abalone shell – will also double as an e-reader.
“I just found out my #Kindle is about to be made redundant,” she says (Amazon recently announced they would no longer support #eReaders made before 2012).”
“It is a perfectly good Kindle ... so why is it suddenly going to be trash? It’s because they want to sell new ones.”
#PersonalComputing / #computers / #hardware / #DIY <https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/the-young-women-building-their-own-computers-as-a-middle-finger-to-big-tech-20260424-p5zqvv.html> / <https://archive.md/t0DR4>
knoppixAmazon ended network support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier, blocking downloads, purchases, and reactivation after resets 📚
The shutdown highlights long-term risks of software-tethered hardware, while open-source tools like Calibre remain device-independent alternatives 🔓
🔗 https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/amazon-pulls-the-plug-on-older-kindle-models/
#TechNews #Amazon #Kindle #Kobo #Calibre #OpenSource #DigitalRights #EReader #EReaders #Book #Books #EBook #Software #ConsumerRights #Privacy #Hardware #Technology #FOSS #DRM #Reading
The Japan TimesKindle users are facing an unwelcome change: Amazon last month said it would end support for e-readers released in 2012 and earlier, with one longtime user saying the move is a "complete betrayal." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/05/20/tech/kindle-amazon-e-readers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #amazon #kindle #ereaders
Lee 🏖️Today I learned some models of Kobo (including the one I have) are designed to be repairable. So I might have mine for a long, long time.
Loaded another fifty books onto the resurrected Sony ereader, this time a selection from @standardebooks (which is sort of "What if those free Project Gutenberg books were professionally presented?"). As well as the expected mainstream classics, there are loads of titles from authors like Robert Sheckley, Philip K. Dick, Andre Norton, and Manly Wade Wellman, which is great to see.
My sister reads absolutely nothing throughout the year, but then strangely turns into a voracious bookworm for her annual fortnight holiday in Greece, tearing through seven or eight books, which makes an ereader fairly essential. This year she and her husband have been hit by Amazon's decision to disown arbitrarily "old" Kindle readers; because they don't have a computer she couldn't sideload titles or jailbreak the devices (and I doubt she even knew it was an option), so they've bought two new Kindles, just as Amazon intended.
It's a pity she didn't mention it in advance as I could have sorted a better option, but for her an ereader means a Kindle and convenience wins.
So many reasons not to get locked in by Amazon.
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It's interesting, I've really enjoyed reading on my different ereaders over the years, I still do, but I seem to be drifting back to physical books lately. Ebooks are really convenient, but at least for newer titles they aren't much cheaper than a paperback, if at all.
I also find that I remember physical books better (and audiobooks the least). There's also a certain sense of satisfaction and contentment of looking at my shelves.
#books #Reading #ereaders
It's interesting, I've really enjoyed reading on my different ereaders over the years, I still do, but I seem to be drifting back to physical books lately. Ebooks are really convenient, but at least for newer titles they aren't much cheaper than a paperback, if at all.
I also find that I remember physical books better (and audiobooks the least). There's also a certain sense of satisfaction and contentment of looking at my shelves.
#books #Reading #ereaders