{"id":40352,"date":"2023-08-15T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T19:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40352"},"modified":"2023-08-16T10:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:24:46","slug":"old-kindle-fires-can-no-longer-download-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/15\/old-kindle-fires-can-no-longer-download-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Kindle Fires Can No Longer Download Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@andrewabernathy\/110889886144350097\">Andrew Abernathy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@andrewabernathy\/110889886144350097\"><p>TIL that old Kindle devices can&rsquo;t be registered to an account, and thus can&rsquo;t be used for reading books. [&#8230;] I learned this by having my Amazon credentials repeatedly rejected despite various two-factor\/OTP contortions and finally managing to contact a human being who ultimately took the device serial number and said &ldquo;ah, that model is too old&rdquo;.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>I gather this is a first-generation Kindle Fire, which makes it from 2011. So it&rsquo;s old, but I can&rsquo;t even use it with it&rsquo;s original software to read books that were made for that platform.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>I&rsquo;ve now tested and I can indeed load PDF and non-DRM .mobi via USB.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sad. It sounds like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html?nodeId=GDKLRH4JSYGPLKQK\">E-ink Kindles<\/a>, which are even older, may still be supported, though.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/17\/amazon-shuts-newspaper-and-magazine-subscriptions\/\">Amazon Shuts Down Newspaper and Magazine Subscriptions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/02\/older-kindles-will-lose-cellular-access\/\">Older Kindles Will Lose Cellular Access<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/19\/two-factor-authentication-for-old-apple-tvs\/\">Two-factor Authentication for Old Apple TVs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/outlawed-by-amazon-drm\/\">Outlawed by Amazon DRM<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"old-kindle-fires-can-no-longer-download-books-update-2023-08-16\">Update (2023-08-16): <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/15\/old-kindle-fires-can-no-longer-download-books\/#comment-3953046\">Andrew Abernathy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/15\/old-kindle-fires-can-no-longer-download-books\/#comment-3953046\"><p>I just tried registering this first-gen Kindle Fire again and it worked right away.<\/p><p>I&rsquo;m reluctant to say it was user error, since I tried the exact same process many times yesterday with ever-increasing care to make sure I was entering things correctly, and Amazon support asked me for the serial number, then told me it was too old and couldn&rsquo;t be registered. But&#8230;maybe I did manage to mess it up. Or maybe Amazon later flipped some switch based on the serial #?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>A happy result, but, as with GrammarlyGO, when the good news directly contradicts the bad news given by support, I have questions.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/14\/grammarlygo-training-on-user-content-with-questionable-opt-out\/\">GrammarlyGO Training on User Content With Questionable Opt Out<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Abernathy: TIL that old Kindle devices can&rsquo;t be registered to an account, and thus can&rsquo;t be used for reading books. [&#8230;] I learned this by having my Amazon credentials repeatedly rejected despite various two-factor\/OTP contortions and finally managing to contact a human being who ultimately took the device serial number and said &ldquo;ah, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-08-15T19:39:14Z","apple_news_api_id":"5a3f94ef-7bdd-45c1-92e2-7659f84501d2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-08-16T14:24:48Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWj-U73vdRcGS4nZZ-EUB0g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,182,166,165],"class_list":["post-40352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-drm","tag-ebooks","tag-kindle"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40358,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40352\/revisions\/40358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}