{"id":106481,"date":"2026-04-19T18:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=15651c5de9d69962f000d8b69291ff87"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:56:32","slug":"got-an-old-kindle-it-might-not-work-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106481","title":{"rendered":"Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/wirecutter\/reviews\/older-kindle-support-ending\/\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: It sounds like you can still load content over USB.\nWhich is frankly the primary way I've used my (not so old that it's affected) Kindle, getting books from DRM-free stores or \"otherwise\" and shoving them on with calibre.\nWith the crippling, it might be an opportunity to pick up some very old ones for cheap to torture with custom firmware or the like.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=47828427\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106481\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}