Your old Kindle won’t stop working on 20 May – but it could

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Your old Kindle won't stop working on 20 May – but it could

Amazon is dropping support for Kindle older models from 20 May, 2026, meaning owners of pre-2013 models will be unable to download new books or set up a device that has been factory reset — deregistering a device will effectively 'brick' it. While no company can support all of their products forever (one could argue a company the size of this one could, mind), most of the devices impacted, listed below, have not received firmware updates for over a decade, and most lost on-device access the Kindle Store. The following 2012 or earlier Kindles are affected, as of 20 May, [...]

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Categories: Hardware, News, ebooks, kindle
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/older-kindles-amazon-support Apr 10, 2026, 01:59 AM