They’re e-reading Amazon the riot act. Bookworms are lighting torches and sharpening their pitchforks in fiery fury as Amazon prepares to cease supporting older Kindle technologies this spring.

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Amazon is cutting off support for older Kindle models very soon. Amazon issued the following statement (via PCMag): "Starting May 20, 2026, customers using Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in ...

Why it matters: Amazon is finally pulling the plug on some of its oldest Kindle hardware, ending support for e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets released in 2012 and earlier. From May 20, the affected ...

Amazon spokesperson Jackie Burke told technology media outlet The Verge that support for Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released before 2012 will end. As a result, users of these devices will no ...

Starting May 20th, Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won’t have access to the Kindle Store. Starting May 20th, Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won ...

The Kindle Fire HD 7" tablet is Amazon's follow-up to the successful $199 Kindle Fire (now reduced to $159 and rechristened the Kindle Fire SD). The HD Fire improves just the things we wished for as ...

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Kindle name is dropped from Amazon's family of tablets to strengthen ties to the rest of its burgeoning hardware line. Donna Tam covers Amazon and other fun stuff for CNET News. She is a San Francisco ...

If you have a Kindle Fire or Fire HD tablet, you know they don’t come with a ton of internal space to store all of your favorite movies, apps, and files. Fortunately, the best microSD cards for Kindle ...

There isn’t a day that goes by, that hundreds of people on social media, ask why they cannot buy Kindle books on Kindle for Android anymore. The short answer is early last year, Amazon disabled in-app ...

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