Stick It to Jeff Bezos by Turning Your Defunct Kindle Into the World's Worst Typewriter

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. If you’re the owner of a Kindle, you may have seen the news that on May 20, Amazon is unilaterally ending support for a whole bunch of pre-2012 Kindle and Kindle Fire devices. If you own one of these devices, you’ll no longer be able to purchase new titles, download any new material, or reset/restore them—attempting to do the latter will lock you out of the device completely. (If you’re unsure whether your Kindle is on the chopping block, there’s a list of affected models you can consult.) Understandably, this news went over like a lead balloon on the internet—many people own affected models that still work just fine, but will nevertheless be rendered pretty damn useless by Amazon’s embrace of forced obsolescence. So, if you’ve got a Kindle that’s on the list, you might find yourself wondering what to do with an e-reader that was perfectly functional up until Amazon decided that it was high time for you to buy a new one. If you want to stick it to Jeff Bezos and keep using the device you own, you’ll probably want