Kindle owners take another hit as Send to Kindle will stop working on older devices

Kindles before 2023 will soon lose Send to Kindle support
This follows the news that they will lose access to the Kindle Store.
The changes will occur on May 20.

It’s fair to say that many Kindle owners aren’t particularly happy with Amazon at the moment, as the company recently announced that pre-2013 models will no longer be supported starting May 20.

The support page detailing this change initially only mentioned that these devices would no longer be able to access the Kindle Store or use Kindle Unlimited, but now, as GoodEreader discovered, the page has been updated to say that Send to Kindle will also stop working.

Send to Kindle is a feature that allows you to wirelessly transfer e-books you purchased elsewhere, as well as documents and other files, to your Kindle, but starting May 20 the only way to transfer content to affected Kindles will be via a USB cable.

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So it’s a change that makes these older models even more useless than they were expected to be.

The Kindle Touch is one of the affected devices (Image credit: TechRadar / Matthew Bolton)

unhappy readers

There hasn’t been much reaction to this Send to Kindle news yet, but in the days since Amazon first announced that these older models would lose access to the Kindle Store, there’s been no shortage of annoying responses about it.

On Reddit, this includes things like “I hate this”, “fucking the most loyal early adopters is not a good thing”, and “this is a disgusting waste”.

Amazon is offering a 20% discount on new devices, but given that the same fate could befall them too, this could end up pushing users to rival services like Kobo, or perhaps something with direct access to multiple e-book stores, like a Viwoods or Boox device.