
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority
A Kindle owner recently took to Reddit to lament about something many longtime users have discovered the hard way: Amazon no longer lets certain older Kindles register after a reset. The poster had dusted off a legacy e-reader, only to meet a dead end at the sign-in screen. This experience is, unfortunately, a scenario that’s becoming more common as Amazon tightens authentication requirements on aging hardware.

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