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New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers (goodereader.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Comments on the article say that it's not true, and new Kindles work exactly the way old ones do.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Seems like they don't work exactly the same as they used to, as they now use MTP instead of USB mass storage, but while annoying, it's generally a pretty trivial fix and your OS may already use MTP devices with no trouble. It seems there may be some other knock-on effects with fonts not sideloading right and needing a Calibre plugin to make pagination work how it used to.

So yeah, it's getting worse, but Amazon hasn't figured out how to bring the hammer down yet.