I jail broke mine earlier this year, and sync it with Calibre. It’s so much leaner, faster, and full of features. Actually crazy how much better of an experience it is.

Please send your old Kindle to me. I just use them with a USB cable to transfer ebooks. I’ll gladly set them up with a few thousand public domain books and give them to kids or local schools.

This is why you keep devices like this offline and never update. Like a “smart” TV for example. Use it until the display panel dies.

Mine still works perfectly as I’ve been using it since the day i bought it.

I’ve always downloaded strait from my laptop or even phone. Everyone’s mistake was adding an amazing account to it. Mine has lived on airplane mode for over a decade. I can still load a book directly from my phone onto it. I’ve even got manga. That did require a third party program to make them epub compatible.