In case you missed the news, or if you’ve just been putting off the inevitable, Amazon is cutting off all Kindles released before 2013 from their servers as of May 20th, 2026. That means you will no longer be able to download your Kindle ebooks to affected Kindles after that date, but you’ll still be […]
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Release Date Revealed for Kindle Scribe Without Frontlight
It’s been over 7 months since Amazon announced their new lineup of Kindle Scribes, and while the Colorsoft version and the BW frontlit model were released back in December, the Kindle Scribe without a frontlight has been mysteriously unavailable since then, but now Amazon has finally revealed a release date. There’s a banner at the […]
Unregistered Kindles Don’t Get Software Updates
I think I may have stumbled on a way to avoid getting software updates on Kindles: just don’t register them. Back in February I had to factory reset my 12th gen Kindle Paperwhite after I intentionally activated a bug that made it go haywire, and then I decided to keep it unregistered for a while […]
Kindle Software Update 5.19.4 Now Rolling Out to Some Kindles
Amazon has released another software update for Kindles, but so far it’s only available for a few models. As of this writing, the 5.19.4 software update is available to download for the Kindle Colorsoft (but not the Scribe version), the 12th gen Kindle Paperwhite, and the 2022 Kindle Scribe. It’s weird to see the 2024 […]
How to Tell if Amazon is Dropping Support for Your Kindle
Amazon is going to be ending support for the first five generations of Kindle ereaders on May 20th, 2026. If you’re unsure if your Kindle is getting cut off from Amazon’s services, there a few tells that can determine that pretty quickly. First off, if your Kindle doesn’t have a touchscreen, it’s getting axed. Second, […]
More Kindle Deals Added to Amazon’s Mother’s Day Sales
Amazon has added some new Kindle deals to their Mother’s Day sales that they first started last week. Most of the sales on Kindle devices are the same as they were when I first posted them, with the addition of new “Reading Together” bundles for the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft, and they added some […]
Kindle Colorsoft Now Supports System Wide Dark Mode
I’ve been seeing a bunch of posts online about the Kindle Colorsoft now supporting true Dark Mode across the entire interface like black and white Kindles have for years now. This is one of those new features that has to be activated by Amazon before it will show up, and not all Colorsofts have gotten […]
Big Mother’s Day Sale on Kindle eReaders and Kindle Bundles
Over the weekend Amazon rolled out some sales on the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft, along with a bunch of bundle packages that include them, and they have some cases on sale too. So far they don’t have the basic Kindle or the any of the Kindle Scribes on sale, but I wouldn’t be surprised […]