Jan Wildeboer 😷
Millions and millions of good quality e-ink screens from Kindle readers that Amazon decided to brick will soon hit the market.
LuÃs Correia@jwildeboer may I ask why?
have a few, no longer tied to Amazon, always in airplane mode
abeorch@jwildeboer Oo.. can we make them useful somehow?
Ricardo Silva@abeorch @jwildeboer they're still useful in offline mode (as someone else) pointed out, you can still connect to them and upload your DRM-free ebooks.
You "only" can't buy any more ebooks from the Kindle store.
Which is arguably a lower barrier to entry than finding DRM-free ebooks, and will certainly make some people stop using them.
I guess they built these early models a bit "too well".
Also, they probably want to get rid of the mobile subscriptions associated with some of the models.
David Willanski@jwildeboer one of my best op shop purchases was a Kindle which stopped being officially supported a week before I got it. Works fine with the appropriate USB cable linking it to my laptop, where Calibre manages my eBook library