My new Kindle still hasn’t shown up yet. It’s due on Nov 4, which is fine, but a little inconvenient, since I’m on vacation next week, and it would have been nice to have a new Kindle to play with.
I’ve already sent my old Kindle back for trade-in, and it’s been accepted, with no issues. But now I’m not sure I should have traded it in. It looks like the new Kindles don’t allow the download and transfer option like the old ones did. And that’s the way I generally get Kindle ebooks over to my Kobo; by downloading them, pulling them into Calibre, letting it convert them, then copying them to the Kobo.
So, since I now have no older devices registered to my Amazon account, I can’t download books anymore. I probably should have kept the old Kindle, just so I could keep that ability.
Mind you, Amazon has said nothing about this, so no one is sure if this is just a temporary thing, or a change in policy going forward. Either way, I probably shouldn’t worry about it. The main point of buying a new Kindle is so that I can use it to read my Kindle books. And it should be at least as good as the Kobo.
My old 2018 Paperwhite wasn’t quite as good as the Kobo, so I’d been copying all of my Wheel of Time books over to the Kobo and reading them on it. But now, I’ll want to go back to the Kindle anyway, I think.
This does leave me wondering what I’ll do with the Kobo. Of course, I have plenty of DRM-free ebooks that I can read on either device, easily. And I have a bundle of Terry Pratchett ebooks that I got through Kobo, so there’s those too.