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Originally Posted by stumped
Are amazon then smart enough to detect that my e -ink device(s) are now updated and thus deliver only the new format to me via the download and transfer route, or will they not know if I have deliberately kept my PW offline to avoid getting the upgrade?
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Amazon will know that you have updated your firmware if your device is ever allowed to connect back to them. Very few Kindle owners would be happy keeping their device permanently offline since that reduces its functionality significantly.
There is at least one case of this sort of thing happening in the past. When the Kindle 3 was originally released it had support for MOBI, but not KF8 (azw3) format. A firmware update added that support later. Amazon keeps track of what firmware was last seen on each of those devices and delivers the appropriate format when Download and Transfer via USB is used.
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Originally Posted by stumped
and they can't know for sure that I sold off my old Kindle basic on ebay, unless they run database checks to see what SNs have been re-registered with new owners.
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Amazon will not allow a device to be registered to a new account until it has been deregistered from the old one.
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and are there any predictions of when any such firmware may be rolled out?
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Amazon has been rolling out Kindle updates approximately quarterly. I would expect the next version in January or thereabouts.
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or when they may block the old version 1.7 of K for PC which is what I use to get copies of my bought books into calibre
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In the past Amazon was aggressive about preventing older versions of Kindle for PC from working but as far as I know they still currently allow version 1.14 and later to work with their servers. (That is the last version that will run on Windows XP.) I have no idea what they will do once version 1.25 becomes more established.