AMAZON KINDLE PC READER UPDATE

However, this comes in the wake of a similar requirement that older Kindles needed to have their firmware updated or else they would stop being able to connect to Amazon. It doesn’t make a lot of sense that it would require the app be updated or else render it inoperable just for that, though. Since Amazon bought ComiXology in 2014, it’s been integrating ComiXology comics into the Amazon store, so it’s not surprising it would add the ability to read them to its Kindle PC app in an update. It recently added the ability to read children’s books and comic books sold by Amazon via the Kindle PC app. Meanwhile, Amazon has been promoting some new capabilities of its e-readers via its Twitter account.

AMAZON KINDLE PC READER UPDATE

Which…I didn’t see, because my copy of the app was set to update itself automatically.) ( Update: According to a commenter below, it was listed in the update notification. But Google doesn’t turn up any other articles to that effect besides one Nate Hoffelder himself wrote based on it, and there doesn’t seem to be any mention of it on KBoards or Amazon’s Kindle for PC forum, either. User “Fbone” said he or she had just been notified that Kindle for PC needed to be updated to version 1.14.1 by Apor it would become inoperable. The only place I’m finding the outright claim that Kindle for PC will outright stop working if not updated is in a comment to a story on The Digital Reader.

So far, the results seem to be inconclusive. Do you have to update your Kindle PC software or else have it stop working? It’s a good question, and I’ve been trying to determine the answer.

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