Amazon just pulled Kindle Store access from every Kindle released before 2013. The hardware still works. Your books still work. Side-loading EPUBs over USB still works.
The fix is the same one that's worked since 2007 — and here's exactly how to do it, step by step:
https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-amazon-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/politics/trump-saudi-business-lunch-musk-altman.html
"Ubiquitous surveillance technology & fossil fuel friendly planned obsolescence requires unnecessary upgrades as part of their business model."
https://davidsuzuki.org/story/the-mad-rush-for-energy-mines-and-metals/
Deliberate ewaste is very beneficial to the extractive industries.
https://www.gatech.edu/news/2025/10/22/microsoft-removing-support-windows-10-could-increase-e-waste-cybersecurity-threats
https://earth.org/the-eu-circular-economy-plan/
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11022023/warming-trends-world-without-fossil-fuels/
https://earth.org/the-hidden-environmental-cost-of-your-devices-and-actionable-steps-to-reduce-it/
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Nicole Parsons