Old kindle basically made worthless.

housebuyer143

I have a gen 4 Kindle, 10+ years old. It's been amazing and I tend to go back to it and use it frequently. 
After downloading a new book and then going to download it to the Kindle, it comes to light that the kindle store no longer supports it so no more books for me 😡 

I'm a little annoyed as this device is perfectly fine but now rendered obsolete because Amazon don't want to update it. 

Do you think Amazon would acknowledge a complaint?  

mebu60

Doubt it.

I had a perfectly serviceable iPad2 that was 9+ years old when support was withdrawn. Very annoying.

Replaced with an Amazon Fire tablet. Took me a while to work out why there were no radio apps. Alexa play [name of radio station]! Doh! 

Neil_Jones

housebuyer143 said:

I have a gen 4 Kindle, 10+ years old. It's been amazing and I tend to go back to it and use it frequently. 
After downloading a new book and then going to download it to the Kindle, it comes to light that the kindle store no longer supports it so no more books for me 😡 

I'm a little annoyed as this device is perfectly fine but now rendered obsolete because Amazon don't want to update it. 

Do you think Amazon would acknowledge a complaint?  

Yeah, that was announced last year that this would happen so you've had a year's notice so...

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1619961/Amazon-reveals-date-break-millions-of-older-Kindles

housebuyer143

Neil_Jones said:

housebuyer143 said:

I have a gen 4 Kindle, 10+ years old. It's been amazing and I tend to go back to it and use it frequently. 
After downloading a new book and then going to download it to the Kindle, it comes to light that the kindle store no longer supports it so no more books for me 😡 

I'm a little annoyed as this device is perfectly fine but now rendered obsolete because Amazon don't want to update it. 

Do you think Amazon would acknowledge a complaint?  

Yeah, that was announced last year that this would happen so you've had a year's notice so...

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1619961/Amazon-reveals-date-break-millions-of-older-Kindles

First I heard of it. I go through reading phases so it's been a be while since I picked it up and was frustrated to find I now need to spend £80 on a new kindle. I'll probably just go to the library now and rent the actual books.

Keithy13

You can still use Calibre to add books to your Kindle. Have a look here    https://calibre-ebook.com

Grey_Critic

Youngest son bought me a Kindle back in 2012 - when it failed I boiught a paperwhite and when that failed I bought another kindle.  few months ago I found my original and poiut of curiousity I plugged it in, It charged up and I am reading some of the 400 plus biiks on it besides the current one. I had deregistered the first so do not bother switcing the wifi on.

Got heading on for 3,000 books.

mgfvvc

housebuyer143 said:

I have a gen 4 Kindle, 10+ years old. It's been amazing and I tend to go back to it and use it frequently. 
After downloading a new book and then going to download it to the Kindle, it comes to light that the kindle store no longer supports it so no more books for me 😡 

I'm a little annoyed as this device is perfectly fine but now rendered obsolete because Amazon don't want to update it. 

AIUI it is still possible to download e-books that you buy online. You just can't buy them on the device itself. 

Is there any reason why you can't just buy the books from your PC or mobile phone?

housebuyer143

mgfvvc said:

housebuyer143 said:

I have a gen 4 Kindle, 10+ years old. It's been amazing and I tend to go back to it and use it frequently. 
After downloading a new book and then going to download it to the Kindle, it comes to light that the kindle store no longer supports it so no more books for me 😡 

I'm a little annoyed as this device is perfectly fine but now rendered obsolete because Amazon don't want to update it. 

AIUI it is still possible to download e-books that you buy online. You just can't buy them on the device itself. 

Is there any reason why you can't just buy the books from your PC or mobile phone?

I bought it from Amazon on my PC but it doesn't let me access the kindle store or my Amazon account on my Kindle to download the books I have bought. I don't have another way to get it onto the device.

tafelmoneysaver

There are two ways you can transfer books to these old devices:

1) Send by email

2) Transfer from your online Amazon account (access this through the Amazon App or web browser)

If you can indicate which you prefer, we can provide more guidance.

[Source: I have one of these devices and did this twice in the past 2 weeks]

mgfvvc

housebuyer143 said:

I bought it from Amazon on my PC but it doesn't let me access the kindle store or my Amazon account on my Kindle to download the books I have bought. I don't have another way to get it onto the device.

It should be accessible from your library.
I have just fired up an old Kindle Keyboard. There is a book on the account called Ogres. It was only bought about a month ago. I searched for Ogres (menu -> Search, enter Ogres, select "My Items" to search in). I was able to download Ogres from the search results.

housebuyer143

Thanks all. I tried the other way of looking for books as suggested and it downloaded the ones from Amazon I bought on the PC 😁😁 pleased it's still functional