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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://lk0.eu/bks901m

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Amazon Is Cutting Kindle Store Access on Pre-2013 Kindles.

Starting May 20, 2026, older Kindles lose Store access. The hardware still works — here’s the fix.

Medium

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Ton Zijlstra 4d ago

@getbookshelves in the medium article it mentions that you can also still download books from your Amazon account and then transfer through usb. That is afaik not true. Download options have disappeared from Amazon accounts last year starting from February and then gradually across various Amazon markets.

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azteclady 4d ago

@ton I just downloaded a few hundred books from my Kindle to my Chromebook, using a USB cable. Granted, it's a 2017 Paperwhite, but still, it worked.

@getbookshelves

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Flipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈

@azteclady @ton @getbookshelves this article details how you can get your books off Kindle (I confirmed the desktop route works today).

https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025/03/11/3-ways-to-download-and-transfer-kindle-ebooks-yeah-its-still-possible/

3 Ways to Download and Transfer Kindle eBooks (Yeah, It's Still Possible)

If you missed the deadline to download your purchased Kindle ebooks from Amazon's website before they took the download and transfer feature away, there's no

The eBook Reader