Kindle owners are in for another blow as Send to Kindle is set to stop working on old devices

Kindles before 2023 will soon lose Send to Kindle support
This follows news that they are losing access to the Kindle Store
The changes must take place on May 20

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

The support page detailing this change originally just mentioned that these devices would no longer be able to access the Kindle Store or use Kindle Unlimited, but now — as seen by GoodEreader — 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’ve purchased elsewhere, as well as documents and other files, to your Kindle, but starting May 20th, the only way to get content to affected Kindles will be via USB cable.

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

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

Dissatisfied 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 annoyed responses to it.

On Reddit, this includes things like “I hate this,” “screwing over the most loyal early adopters is extremely uncool,” and “this is an outrageous waste.”

Amazon offers 20% off new devices, but given that the same fate could eventually befall them, this could end up pushing users to competing services like Kobo, or perhaps something with direct access to more e-book stores, like a Viwoods or Boox device.