Mastodawn

Apparently, #Amazon will soon be throwing older #Kindle devices completely off their infrastructure. This is probably an effort to coerce people into buying newer readers. (Those historically execrably dire movies aren't going to pay for themselves, after all.)

Archived copy of #TheVerge article here:

https://archive.is/nqdp2

Anyway, in related news...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EytYGAWtevA

#ThinLizzy #Jailbreak

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Ray McCarthy 4d ago

@SimonRoyHughes
I think it's more about spyware and control that is already in the newer ereaders and all the apps that work.

The older readers don't have enough RAM to run such stuff. That's why the Paperwhite 1 is cut off.

It's also to do with the horrible KFX format.

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Simon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋4d ago

@raymaccarthy Oh my. I had no idea. https://guidohenkel.com/2015/10/the-horrors-of-kindle-format-x/

The horrors of Kindle Format X - Guido Henkel

The new Kindle eBook format is slowly appearing on Amazon's website, and once again, the innovation is troubled with flaws and problems.

Guido Henkel

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Ray McCarthy

@SimonRoyHughes
In fact at release in 2007 the original Kindle only did Latin/Roman character set, & one each of Sans-serif, Serif and Monospace, each in normal, bold, italic or bold-italic.
Only limited Greek,. No Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc.
No CSS. Based on HTML3.
Why?
1. American.
2.Based on software from Mobipocket which they bought in 2005.
The predecessor of epub2 (HTML5, CSS3) was out in 1998!
LTR + RTL and languages was even working on DOS 20 years b4.