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Old 05-08-2026, 07:31 AM   #421
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I'm always amused by the the "I'll be fine, but who's going to wipe the tears of the hordes of the poor defenseless, casual-reading idiots who have 40,000 unread books just waiting on Amazon servers that will be lost to them forever?" argument.
And trying to hold that thought simultaneously with umbrage on behalf of those who planned to average the price of their Kindle over 100 books bought in the next 25 years....
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Old 05-08-2026, 07:47 AM   #422
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There is no technical reason Amazon has to stop allowing older Kindles to no longer be able to download other then to try to stop DRM removal.
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Old 05-08-2026, 08:03 AM   #423
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There is no technical reason Amazon has to stop allowing older Kindles to no longer be able to download other then to try to stop DRM removal.
Technical reason no, business reasons yes.
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Old 05-08-2026, 09:05 AM   #424
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle

Did Amazon got rid of low memory devices. This could be a technical reason $$$$
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Old 05-08-2026, 09:25 AM   #425
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Technical reason no, business reasons yes.
Business reason: to try to stop DRM removal.
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Old 05-08-2026, 09:29 AM   #426
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Business reason: to try to stop DRM removal.
And??
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Old 05-08-2026, 09:51 AM   #427
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Pretending there are no technical advantages (other than blocking DRM removal) to do what they've done is being just as blind as pretending that blocking DRM removal isn't one of those advantages.

If you can't imagine that streamlining a submission/conversion/delivery pipeline by (eventually) dropping to a single format for all devices isn't an advantage all by itself, then you don't have much of an imagination.
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Old 05-08-2026, 11:10 AM   #428
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Pretending there are no technical advantages (other than blocking DRM removal) to do what they've done is being just as blind as pretending that blocking DRM removal isn't one of those advantages.

If you can't imagine that streamlining a submission/conversion/delivery pipeline by (eventually) dropping to a single format for all devices isn't an advantage all by itself, then you don't have much of an imagination.
Saying it's not about DRM is hiding your head in the sand. This is ALL about DRM.
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Old 05-08-2026, 11:35 AM   #429
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And trying to hold that thought simultaneously with umbrage on behalf of those who planned to average the price of their Kindle over 100 books bought in the next 25 years....
Well, some of us were overoptimistic about books to be read per year over time.
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Saying it's not about DRM is hiding your head in the sand. This is ALL about DRM.
Way to miss the part where I clearly said that DRM was a factor
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Way to miss the part where I clearly said that DRM was a factor
I'm saying it's all about blocking DRM from being removed. There's nothing technical about it other then DRM.
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And trying to hold that thought simultaneously with umbrage on behalf of those who planned to average the price of their Kindle over 100 books bought in the next 25 years....
My guess was if, alongside the end of support for the older Kindles, and the closing of Google Play's Amazon app, it might be fine to expect a drop down on others Android-based e-readers (if the Google Play's Kindle app is closing now).
Not like I hope for freeloader, not that others e-readers manufacturers has to drop the price for that, but while thinking at one newest one, that can be put on consideration if it's happening in this period (to expect or not discount prices ).
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I'm saying it's all about blocking DRM from being removed. There's nothing technical about it other then DRM.
Gotcha. You're choosing to be willfully blind. I understand now.
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Gotcha. You're choosing to be willfully blind. I understand now.
Do you have any evidence that I am wrong? There have been other pointing out Amazon's timeline for making these changes and it all aligns with it being about DRM.
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The doomsday scenario of huge numbers of people still using a Kindle Keyboard, and leaving hundreds or thousands of undownloaded books in Amazon’s cloud, AND not getting the announcement seems very unlikely. Which is not to say there will be none. Those that find themselves in such a situation can contact Amazon and perhaps get a coupon code. That said, every casual Kindle user that I know personally has been the sort to purchase, download, read, delete. They have no idea that there IS an Amazon cloud.
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