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Originally Posted by stumped
i can live with that, as I don't rush to buy newly released books,; but will amazon push that date gradually backwards ?
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While that is a possibility, I suspect that they are going to keep to a fixed date of books published since the beginning of this year. If they moved the date backward then previously purchased books would stop working and I doubt they want to deal with the customer service implications of that.
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Originally Posted by stumped
also, how is that affected, if at all, by owning various vintages of eink kindle?
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This change has no effect on e-ink Kindle owners, at least so far.
My worry is that Amazon might stop allowing Download and Transfer via USB for books published after a certain date. That feature is already unavailable for certain categories of books and for free samples. That change would leave only extracting books from the Kindle's storage using USB, which only works for Kindles running old firmware. Hopefully Amazon is reluctant to further disable downloads since Kindle owners who do not have Wi-Fi would complain.
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Originally Posted by stumped
I still have a paperwhite 3 (7th gen)- is that old enough to not support kfx? I was looking at trade-in options but rather than take the measly £20 that Amazon are offering, it may be more useful to keep it , if it enables workarounds
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It depends on the firmware version installed. If is has firmware prior to version 5.6.5 it does not support KFX. If the firmware is prior to 5.12.2 it supports KFX but DRM removal is possible. Newer than that and you may be out of luck if Download and Transfer goes away.