With Amazon making news about their decision to stop supporting the first five generations of Kindles, Kobo is still supporting most of their ereaders going back 15 years. Not only is the Kobo Touch from 2011 still being supported, it’s still getting occasional software updates that add new features. In fact, Kobo just released another […]
Send-to-Kindle Won’t Work on Unsupported Kindles; Amazon Phasing Out Older Formats
Ever since Amazon started sending out emails last week about dropping support for older Kindles, I’ve been seeing some people say you’ll still be able to use Send-to-Kindle or email to send documents and non-Amazon ebooks to those Kindle devices, but unfortunately that is not the case. Moving forward, all Kindles released before 2013 will […]
Previous Gen Kindle Scribe Selling Better Than the New Scribe
It looks like Amazon seriously misjudged how much people are willing to pay for a Kindle Scribe. I was looking at the product page for the older Kindle Scribe that was released in 2024 and was surprised to see it has higher sales numbers than the new Kindle Scribe by a significant margin. The sales […]
Older Kindles Will Still Support Sideloading eBooks
With the news coming out that Amazon is ending support for all Kindles released before 2013, some people are wrongly assuming that older Kindles will become completely useless after May 20th. I made the mistake of going to reddit and seeing the village idiots are firmly in control of the misinformation wheel again, and it’s […]
Amazon Ending Support for All Kindles Released Before 2013
Amazon has started sending out emails across various regions to customers with older Kindles saying they are ending support for all Kindles released in 2012 and earlier on May 20th, 2026. This is going to affect a lot of people considering that includes all 1st through 5th gen Kindles. Amazon dropped support for the first […]
New Kindle Scribes Now Available in UK and Germany
Amazon has finally started rolling out the new Kindle Scribes internationally. It’s been almost four months since they started selling them in the US, and it’s been over six months since they were announced. The new Kindle Scribe with a frontlight and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft are now available to order from Amazon UK and Amazon […]
Software Update Released for Kindle eReaders – Version 5.19.3.0.1
A couple weeks ago Amazon released software version 5.19.3 for Kindles that must’ve had some serious problems because they removed the update from their website after just 2 days, but now they have a new update out that hopefully fixes whatever issues the last update created. The new software version is 5.19.3.0.1, and it’s available […]
4.3″ Xteink X4 Mini eReader Now Available on Amazon for $69
If you’re looking for a mini pocket-sized ereader for reading on the go this summer, the Xteink X4 is now available to purchase on Amazon for $69 with free shipping. It’s available in “space black” and “frost white”. The Xteink X4 is a basic ereader with a 4.3″ E Ink screen with 220ppi. It doesn’t […]