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Now that Amazon has ended support for the first five generations of Kindles, some people are finding out that Amazon is still counting the ebook licenses for books downloaded to those Kindles against the total, and Amazon gives no explanation on how to get that license back. Most Kindle ebooks have a license limit of […]

Ever since the 5.18.6 software update from last November, Kindles no longer have the option to open the full dictionary as a book when looking up words like they’ve been able to do for as long as I can remember. You can still lookup words while reading, but the dictionary feature is now limited to […]

Ever since Amazon released the 5.19.2 software update for Kindles, there have been numerous reports of sideloaded manga and comics not displaying correctly, with extra blank space getting added to the borders, among other problems. Who knows if Amazon will ever fix it or if that’s just how things are going to be from now […]

I came across this Kindle Disk Error Troubleshooting page among Amazon’s help articles for Kindles. I don’t remember ever hearing about disk errors being an issue with Kindles, but apparently it happens often enough for them to put up a help page about it. I thought maybe it was a Windows thing since Windows updates […]

It looks Amazon has bestowed yet another bug onto Kindle software with their recent software updates. There are a growing number of reports online about Kindles showing an “Invalid ASIN” error when trying to open certain ebooks, making it impossible to open those books. It sounds like it only happens with sideloaded books, but I […]

If you missed the deadline to download your purchased Kindle ebooks from Amazon’s website before they took the download and transfer feature away, there’s no need to worry because there are still three other ways to get your ebooks away from Amazon’s clutches. There’s no guarantee these workarounds will continue to work, however, so it’s […]