Amazon Kindle users: your library is burning, you have until 25-Feb to evacuate

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I do not use any sort of e-reader device myself (1) for various reasons; but today, someone from an obscure Netnews faction on a distant side of the small Internet realm has posted about something that I think I need to call to attention immediately, especially for people who are using e-readers branded Amazon Kindle:

• Download & Transfer for Kindle eBooks Going Away on February 26
• Hurry! Download your Kindle eBooks before Amazon won't let you anymore
• Download your Kindle books ASAP - before Amazon kills this feature next week

You have until 25 February 2025 to evacuate; failing that means you would be stuck inside the burning library you could never leave, forever.


(1) And I very much despite Amazon's bookburning slate (2) specifically, for their digital restriction handcuffs, and backdoors that enabled the infamous 1984 debacle of deleting books people already bought (which I also heard it happened again despite they phony-promised that they wouldn't unless court ordered them to), and most recently, the retroactive-censoring of Roald Dahl's works on copies people already bought as well.

(2) Seriously, what do you think "kindle" is supposed to mean?

[candycanearter07]

I'm more surprised they allowed it in the first place, but the backtracking on stuff they've already offered is quite on brand for them.. I have a really old Kindle but I haven't touched it in quite a bit..

(2) Seriously, what do you think "kindle" is supposed to mean?

In retrospect, it does seem a bit on the nose, huh? Kinda like the Google "don't be evil" thing.