Please send your old Kindle to me. I just use them with a USB cable to transfer ebooks. I'll gladly set them up with a few thousand public domain books and give them to kids or local schools.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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I jail broke mine earlier this year, and sync it with Calibre. It's so much leaner, faster, and full of features. Actually crazy how much better of an experience it is.
Nice I too use Calibre for everything!
I've never connected mine to the interwebs, never updated it, always used Calibre to transfer books to it via USB, it still works as well as it did when I bought it, decade+ ago.
Been thinking of jailbreaking it, just for fun, but not sure. What features would a jailbroken version have, that I'm missing currently?
Mine still works perfectly as I've been using it since the day i bought it.
I've always downloaded strait from my laptop or even phone. Everyone's mistake was adding an amazing account to it. Mine has lived on airplane mode for over a decade. I can still load a book directly from my phone onto it. I've even got manga. That did require a third party program to make them epub compatible.
This is why you keep devices like this offline and never update. Like a "smart" TV for example. Use it until the display panel dies.
read books
Bought from reputable stores, preferably brick and mortar or op shop
Why not simply install the free Calibre library on your phone? You sync over cable. You have your library. You can even download your kindle library to your pc and de-drm it so it works. And if it doesn't, simply find torrent with epub online, as you already paid for it to bezos.
e-ink
I did when my Kindle broke, and although its awesome to just grab a book off of AA on my mobile browser and immediately be able to open it, the eye strain sucks compared to those old e-ink screens.
Alcoholics Anonymous has books now?
Anonymous alcholics don't tend to have books in my experience.
I jail broke mine and I still sometimes buy books from Amazon. It's a gen 10 device so it will be unsupported in the NEXT round. I wish I had thought to keep it offline back when I bought it because it is sluggish as hell and I really liked it when I bought it years ago. Recently, I thought it died when it stopped responding so I bought a Kobo and I've been pretty happy with it. I hate all the rubbish DRM crap.
I do have actual books I like to read, but I need a light which keeps my wife up at night so the backlight turned way down works better.