Thread: Amazon discontinuing support for older Kindles in May
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Old 05-23-2026, 10:30 AM   #571
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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
That seems very convoluted. If one can remove the DRM from the books already on the device, why not do so immediately? And if one cannot, why bother moving them off and on?
The books on quite a few of the Kindles Amazon still supports are already burdened with DRM that is currently not removable.

That is the use case I was referring to. The driver behind this suggestion was a bit of paranoia that was speculating about Amazon using their ability to update DRM on the fly so books already on the Kindle would be subject to an updated DRM whereas the backup copies would still have the DRM as of this point in time.
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