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Services will always disappoint you. The book on your shelf can only disappoint you with its contents.
Services will always disappoint you. The book on your shelf can only disappoint you with its contents.
Not true. The books on my shelves constantly disappointed me every time I moved or went on a more than weekend long vacation. I ditched my fairly large and expensive to acquire collection of printed books about a decade ago and don't regret it a single bit. Paper is heavy and annoying to move around in a way that a Kindle simply isn't.
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True, but most manufacturers don't go out of their way to break their old devices. Neglect is one thing, this feels more like theft.
What a shame that iPhone 6 cannot install the latest apps from App Store. This is robbery from Apple.
This is hardly unique to Kindles. I have an old iPod, which still works fine. But nearly all of its apps no longer work because the servers they connect to don't support it anymore, making it essentially useless. Same thing happened to my older Samsung tablet. Same thing to my various internet radios.
I never liked Calibre, it's weirdly shoddy software, slow as a dog, and the worst UX i've ever seen in a popular app - so I needed something I could just drop my files into.
You can get a Kobo Reader and disable internet access to it so it never connects to a server. You can then plug it in to your computer and it shows up as a mass storage device. Then just drop PDFs, ePubs in. I never liked Calibre, it's weirdly shoddy software, slow as a dog, and the worst UX i've ever seen in a popular app - so I needed something I could just drop my files into.
I can understand why one would want to move from Kindle to another device, but this article starts by complaining that support is being dropped for devices from before 2013. I can even understand being upset by this, but I have absolutely no faith that whatever other device I switch to will still be supported in 10+ years. Could be. But I sure wouldn't count on it.
My typewriter has been successfully serviced 45 years after being produced.
I would point out that in 45 years ago, in 1981, the typewriter as a product was over 100 years old (first sold 1874). There was a lot of time to standardize by 1981. And there probably haven't been a lot of serviceable pre-1900s typewriters for quite a while.
The first Kindle came out in 2007. Who knows what an e-reader will be like in 2107?