- Kindles before 2023 will soon lose Send to Kindle support
- This follows the announcement that they will lose access to the Kindle store.
- The changes are expected to take place on May 20
It’s fair to say that many Kindle owners aren’t particularly happy with Amazon at the moment, with the company recently announcing that pre-2013 models would no longer be supported starting May 20.
The support page detailing this change initially mentioned that these devices would no longer be able to access the Kindle Store or use Kindle Unlimited, but now – as spotted by GoodEreader – the page has been updated to indicate that Send to Kindle will also stop working.
Send to Kindle is a feature that lets you wirelessly transfer ebooks you’ve purchased elsewhere, as well as documents and other files, to your Kindle, but starting May 20, the only way to get content to affected Kindles will be via a USB cable.
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So this is a change that makes these older models even more useless than they would be before.
Dissatisfied readers
There hasn’t been much reaction to this Send to Kindle news yet, but since Amazon first announced that these older models would lose access to the Kindle store, there has been no shortage of annoyed responses.
On Reddit, this includes things like “I hate this”, “fucking the most loyal early adopters is totally uncool”, and “this is a disgusting waste”.
Amazon is offering a 20% discount on new devices, but given that the same fate could eventually befall them as well, that could end up pushing users to compete with services like Kobo, or perhaps towards something with direct access to multiple e-book stores, like a Viwoods or Boox device.
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