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[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 81 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

Amazon is "discontinuing support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier"

And here's my Sony PRS-505 from 2008 - released four years earlier - it still works fine, can read .epub and .pdf, is extendable to 32GB capacity by two memory cards and moddable with a custom Linux distribution (PRS Plus).

It also doesn't have WiFi, so no one can remotely delete 1984 from your library. Fuck you, Amazon.

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Absolutely jealous of that, I have a touchpad one but yours is antique beauty

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I absolutely love this thing. It's a solid block of metal and will probably live longer than me. It chokes on ePubs with embedded fonts sometimes (64MB of memory is not a lot), but with Calibre you can strip them out and then they all work fine.

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