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Comment by swiftcoder

7 hours ago

If you don't allow the device to connect to the internet, yes. Kindles are somewhat infamous for updates that wipe storage if they think you are side loading pirate ebooks

> Kindles are somewhat infamous for updates that wipe storage if they think you are side loading pirate ebooks

Source? I've never heard of this, and I used to work there, including building the OS from source (though my contributions to the OS were pretty minimal). If you just put a .mobi file onto the storage, how does it have any idea where it came from?

> If you don't allow the device to connect to the internet, yes

Why is that a problem for a device which has been EoL'd?