I hadn’t thought of this at first, however now that Amazon has disabled Obtain and Switch by way of USB, Kindle ereaders are just about ineffective paperweights until you recurrently maintain them related to WiFi.
It’s nearly inconceivable to get ebooks from Amazon onto Kindles now with out a WiFi connection, until you might have an older mannequin with mobile service that also works, which Amazon phased out a pair generations in the past (the Kindle Oasis 3 from 2019 was the final mannequin to have a mobile possibility).
Will Amazon put a disclaimer on Kindle product pages now that claims WiFi is required to make use of them?
The humorous factor is for those who purchase your ebooks elsewhere you’ll nonetheless be capable to load them onto your Kindle simply high-quality with out a WiFi connection. However for those who purchase ebooks from Amazon, even books which can be presupposed to be DRM-free (which they aren’t), the one manner you’ll be capable to get them onto a Kindle is to obtain them by way of WiFi (or mobile) to the Kindle instantly (technically there are nonetheless different methods to get Kindle ebooks utilizing an Android emulator or an outdated model of Kindle for PC, however realistically only a few individuals are going to undergo the difficulty of setting that up, and Amazon will most likely break these workarounds finally).
Folks would possibly wish to take into account downloading all of their bought ebooks to Kindles now in case their router ever decides to go haywire. I do know some folks solely wish to have a number of books downloaded at one time, however that’s most likely not a superb technique transferring ahead. Routers fail on a regular basis, and it’d take a number of weeks to get a brand new one put in and have it up and working once more.
There’s additionally the truth that older Kindles launched earlier than 2021 don’t help 5GHz networks or WPA3 encryption, and a few public networks require a separate sign-in methodology that the Kindle’s crappy outdated net browser can’t deal with, so not all WiFi networks will work with Kindles.
In keeping with statistics on-line, 92% of US households have WiFi entry. However the quantity is far decrease worldwide, with solely 67.9% of households having web entry (and never simply particularly WiFi).
Apparently Amazon not cares about making Kindles accessible to everybody, particularly these in poor, underdeveloped nations. They actually ought to put a word on Kindle product pages that states WiFi entry is now a compulsory requirement to make use of Kindles.
