I support reading in all its form--audiobooks, ebooks, and book books--but this bullshit adds a little more luster to the old-fashioned codex, which Bezos the Bozo can't fuck with in his off hours from dismantling the Washington Post.
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Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles
In an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store.