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submitted 21 hours ago by Brkdncr@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

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[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 19 hours ago

Got a very old kindle for free, from someone getting rid of it. No touch, no backlight, most basic thing ever. I only got my account on it to download a dictionary.

I am never buying anything from Amazon to read on it, but I've been using it quite a bit, only on calibre converted stuff. It was not too hard to set up, and once it's done it's just drag n drop.

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Until it decides to delete every single side loaded book you have on there, which they like to do from time to time. The only way to completely avoid it is to load all your content via email, which unfortunately only supports limited formats.

[-] bossjack@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The type of person to rock Calibre would probably have airplane mode on constantly. Mine's been that way and I still have epubs sideloaded on my Kindle from when I first got mine all those years ago.

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

Same on my still works fine Kindle Keyboard.

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah same. Until I accidentally turned it off 1,000 miles away from my computer. That was a sad day.

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 0 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Well, good luck to Amazon trying to wipe my kindle remotely with black magic then.

It doesn't have WiFi configured at all.

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

When it happened to me I was staying with a family member whose house I’d never been to before, so I didn’t have their wifi. I couldn’t believe it.

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