Amazon has told owners it will soon stop supporting older Kindle models - a move which has left some users outraged.
In emails from the tech giant, affected users were thanked for being a “longtime Kindle customer” but told devices released during or before 2012 would no longer receive updates from 20 May.
The move will mean owners of older Kindles, including its earliest models such as the Kindle Touch and some Kindle Fire tablets, will be unable to download new e-books.
Amazon said it has supported affected models for years and their active users have been offered discounts to help “transition to newer devices”, but some have criticised it for making up to two million devices “obsolete”.
“I have a Kindle Touch that I’ve had since 2013, it works great, I bought a book on it a few months ago, and suddenly it’s obsolete,” one X user wrote in a post tagging Amazon.
I went with a Kobo Libra Color for that same reason when I was looking for an ereader. Between being able to sideload whatever I want, the ability to self-host books and sync them with Calibre, and solid support with Koreade for .cbzs, it just seemed perfect in comparison. I don’t really bother with storage or expansion slot options, though, so you might have to poke around and see what’s there if that’s a main selling point.
Yeah, it makes things a lot harder as I want one that will let me lug my TTRPG library around with me.
Hundreds of books over four systems, all in PDF, takes up a pretty big chunk of storage.
I keep them on my tablet, now, which works. The thing is power hungry, though, so I need to plug it in or it dies in like two hours.
I’d really like a nice eInk (hopefully color, but I can deal with grayscale) reader to manage all that, as well as my books, and my collection of Alan Moore graphic novels and the Neil Gaiman stuff that I still have.
That’s a tough one. Holding all the TTRPG books has gotta be quite a bit, but it really depends. I think Kobo’s max out at 32GB, which could be overwhelmed pretty quick depending on what hundreds of books actually entails.
If you end up getting stumped on it though and consider a fixed storage reader, look into Calibre-Web. You can set up book shelves (say, one for all of your D&D or one for all of your Pathfinder books) and then select which shelf to synchronize with the reader. So it’s literally just popping into your website, changing a checkmark, then pressing sync on your device and it downloads the entire selected catalogue (that feature might only be Kobo, though, I don’t know how other readers might work).