About this site

Who runs oldkindle.com

oldkindle.com is published by Graith Internet, a UK web development company based near the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. Graith has been building PHP and Drupal websites since 1997. The site’s editor is Brian Willows.

We built this site because Amazon’s 20 May 2026 announcement caught a lot of people out, and the advice that bubbled up in the following days was a mixture of panic, bad information, and buried lead-paragraphs telling people to factory-reset devices that absolutely should not be reset. A practitioner friend of Brian’s received that exact reply from an Amazon chat support agent — “have you tried a factory reset?” — and the reply is, charitably, wrong.

Graith has no commercial relationship with Amazon. We do not sell Kindles. We do not receive affiliate payments on Kindle purchases. We do not have an axe to grind about the cutoff itself — there are reasonable commercial arguments for Amazon’s decision and we’ve laid them out honestly on the explainer page. What we do have is a week’s worth of research, an old Kindle on the workbench, and a clear view of what actually helps an affected owner.

What this site is, and what it isn’t

It is a source of independent consumer help for people whose Kindles are affected by the 20 May 2026 change. The main pages — the warning, the explainer, the options page, the repurpose index, and four full repurposing guides — are free and always will be. The Survival Guide PDF at £3.99 is for people who’d rather have one consolidated step-by-step walkthrough than piece advice together from a dozen blog posts.

It isn’t a DRM-stripping tutorial site. We describe the tools that exist, link to the primary sources, and leave the legal decisions to the reader in the jurisdictions where they matter. We do not host or distribute circumvention software.

It is also not affiliated with Amazon. “Kindle” and “Amazon” are registered trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. This is an independent publication. If you are looking for Amazon’s own support information, the canonical page is on amazon.co.uk at node TRXsYxKJr4WTdsVs2P.

Our editorial standard

Every factual claim on this site is traceable to a primary source (Amazon’s own help page) or to a reputable secondary source (TechCrunch, HowToGeek, TechRadar, T3, Engadget, BBC, Hackaday, or the kindlemodding.org community wiki). Sources are listed at the bottom of every article that makes factual claims. If you spot something that looks wrong, please get in touch — we’d rather fix an error than let it sit.

Who the Survival Guide is for

If you are comfortable with the command line, can read kindlemodding.org unaided, and have done this kind of thing before, you almost certainly don’t need to buy the guide. Everything in it is legal to do and documented somewhere on the public web. What the guide gives you is everything in one place, in the right order, with screenshots, and with the troubleshooting appendix. That’s worth £3.99 to a lot of readers and worth nothing to a few. We’re happy with that split.

How to reach us

The contact page has email details and a note on what we’re able to help with. Graith Internet also publishes practitioner case studies at graith.co.uk/articles, covering Drupal 11, e-commerce, and AI-assisted development — unrelated to this site but useful if you’re looking for web development services.