The thing is you could still load an AZW file on it…

But they stopped letting you load content over USB last year.

Amazon is “discontinuing support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier”

And here’s my Sony PRS-505 from 2008 - released four years earlier - it still works fine, can read .epub and .pdf, is extendable to 32GB capacity by two memory cards and moddable with a custom Linux distribution (PRS Plus).

It also doesn’t have WiFi, so no one can remotely delete 1984 from your library. Fuck you, Amazon.

As Reg readers know, nothing in tech lasts forever

lol. I’m using a 2016 Samsung Galaxy Tab as my e-reader. I fully expect the pirated epub files I use on it to be readable until I am dead. It is never connected to the Internet, never updated, never anything except a USB connection to move over more books.

For context if it matters: I have purchased every book on it in physical form. I download epubs of these books so I can carry my library with me anywhere I go and I feel no guilt about this whatsoever - largely because of BULLSHIT like this article.