Amazon has began sending out emails notifying clients about their plan to discontinue the Flashcards function on Kindles.
Apparently they’ve already began eradicating the Flashcards function from Kindle apps, they usually plan on casting off Flashcards totally in November of 2024.
Customers can request the flashcards related to their account from this web page at Amazon and proceed utilizing them on their very own units, however all flashcards shall be faraway from Amazon’s servers later this yr so it is advisable obtain them quickly.
The Flashcards function allows you to overview phrases that you just’ve regarded up within the dictionary and mark them as mastered. It’s a type of issues that most individuals in all probability don’t use, however for people who do use flashcards put together to get dissatisfied. Nevertheless, the Vocabulary Builder function will stay so you’ll be able to nonetheless overview regarded up phrases, simply not utilizing flashcards.
Discuss with the Kindle Flashcards web page at Amazon for extra particulars.
The bizarre factor about that web page is that they don’t particularly say that Flashcards shall be faraway from Kindle ereaders. They simply say “the Kindle app” (like there’s just one), nevertheless it implies that the function is getting eliminated totally so that will imply it’s going away on Kindles too. They might’ve been extra clear about this and defined the way it’s going to have an effect on Kindle units and never simply “the Kindle app”.
Within the grand scheme of issues dropping flashcards isn’t that large of a deal, nevertheless it’s simply one other step within the enshitification technique of the Kindle platform. What options will Amazon take away subsequent? I’m nonetheless not over them eradicating the again button from Kindles again in 2021.
