Amazon Support for Older Kindles Ends Today. What to Do Now

That Kindle device you've been holding onto for 15 years has reached its expiration date, as Amazon ended support for Kindle models from 2012 or earlier on Wednesday. The books that you already downloaded on your Kindle device won't disappear on Wednesday, but you won't be able to connect to the network to buy, borrow or download new ones.

If you still have a book you want to finish reading on one of these devices, make sure you don't deregister the device or do a factory reset. But Amazon says that if you deregister or reset the device, you won't be able to reregister it or use it at all afterward.

"These models have been supported for at least 14 years -- some as long as 18 years -- but technology has come a long way in that time, and these devices will no longer be supported moving forward," an...

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