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Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books
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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
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I've been using raw text files for my books, sent locally over USB, and that's the way it's gonna stay until my reader craps out
There's not really any advantage of using txt files over open standard drm-free epubs. You can still generate them yourself using txt editors or publishing software, you can still load them over USB. But epubs give you quality of life features on eReaders like title pages, table of contents, chapter headers, formatting markers like bold and italics.
My reader formats epubs really terribly, the text is almost always way too small, and requires some grotesque horizontal scrolling for most books.
On the other hand .txt just works, and handles resizing just fine
you are almost certainly doing something wrong
An eReader's literally only job is to format, reflow, render and display ePubs. If you have one that can't do that, then it is a fancy coaster at best.
Ok? I'm still going to read books as .txt files anyways, because it does so.
can't you just load epub with calibre or another sync to? I'm pretty sure that's what I do because that's what I'm doing