They do this after they stop letting download what you paid for and transfer via USB.
I downloaded my whole library, cracked all the DRM and dumped the AZWs to ePubs as soon as they announced that, and sent in an account deletion request. When they made it a requirement to use their “cloud” to do anything with your Kindle I knew it was over.
We all knew it was coming, any way to screw us they’ll do it, they don’t need customer service anymore since they killed most competition and people are stuck with Amazon or Piracy.
Personally I’ll send an author a donation if I can’t buy direct from them in DRM-Free formats.
I was looking at a Boox Go Color to add in support for my manga and comics as well as my library of novels but with Android getting really creepy I’m not so sure I want to be tied to what I see as a dying ecosystem again because Boox uses it as their OS.
The Pine64 stuff looks like a good option, but it has no expansion, which was always a problem with Kindle since even their 128GB internal flash of the PineNote (that si much larger than any Kindle version) isn’t enough to load my manuals. That’s actually why I have the 1st Gen Kindle Keyboard, and not the DX, with so little storage and no expansion option the PDF support and a screen large enough to make things locked to formatting for 8 1/2 x 11 readable was pretty pointless.
Yeah, it makes things a lot harder as I want one that will let me lug my TTRPG library around with me.
Hundreds of books over four systems, all in PDF, takes up a pretty big chunk of storage.
I keep them on my tablet, now, which works. The thing is power hungry, though, so I need to plug it in or it dies in like two hours.
I’d really like a nice eInk (hopefully color, but I can deal with grayscale) reader to manage all that, as well as my books, and my collection of Alan Moore graphic novels and the Neil Gaiman stuff that I still have.