That old Kindle sitting in your desk drawer is about to get locked out from the internet. Of older Kindle e-readers that they must update by Tuesday, March 22nd, or else they will no longer be able to access the Kindle Store or sync with the cloud. That means, most importantly, that you won't be able to download new books. The emergency update is for the original Kindle Paperwhite (2012) and every Kindle before it. If you do not update your Kindle before that date, Amazon says you'll receive this warning when you try to access internet services:Your Kindle is unable to connect at this time. Please make sure you are within wireless range and try again. If the problem persists, please restart your Kindle from the Menu in Settings and try again.All Kindles download and install the latest updates automatically if they're connected to Wi-Fi while asleep.
The Kindle books you bought from Amazon will appear in Kindle for Mac because of its sync function. Choose one and right click it. Then you can choose the option to read from the appeared menu. This is the easiest way to read Kindle books on mac. But every coin has two sides.
If your Kindle is sitting somewhere in your house unplugged, however, it likely isn't updated with the latest version, and you should turn it on and make it pull the new update by clicking 'Sync and Check for Items' in the menu.Fortunately, you won't be entirely out of luck if you forget to update your device (hello readers who search for this article months from now). You'll just have to do it manually by downloading the update file from Amazon's website and transferring it to your Kindle via a USB cable. For more detailed instructions, select your device. Of course, if it's not March 22nd, 2016 yet, just connect to Wi-Fi and do it the easy way right now.
A full list of affected Kindle devices follow. Kindle 1st Generation (2007). Kindle 2nd Generation (2009). Kindle DX 2nd Generation (2009). Kindle Keyboard 3rd Generation (2010).
Kindle 4th Generation (2011). Kindle 5th Generation (2012).
Kindle Touch 4th Generation (2011). Kindle Paperwhite 5th Generation (2012)First look at Amazon's Fire tablets.
For at least the past month or more, I have been unable to send any documents to Kindle, as I immediately get a 'Network Error Occurred' error message. I formerly had no problems, but lately I have not been able to use it at all. I contacted the Help desk today, tried a couple things they suggested (such as unplugging router, rebooting, etc) but still received the same error message, which unfortunately provides no additional details.From searching the Amazon help forums, this appears to be a rather common problem, but Amazon didn't have a ready solution. Has anybody here been able to resolve this problem? Note I'm using Windows 7. As a workaround, I have emailed documents to my Kindle, but obviously Send to Kindle is more convenient since it also archives the 'documents'.Thanks in advance for any recommendations.SteveK. As I understood, 12 September the Amazon's certificate became outdated.
The new one was signed with Root Certificate, which was issued this summer or so. But for some reasons Microsoft didn't sent an update of Root Certificates.For reasons beyond my understanding Microsoft's root certificate updates are listed as 'optional', so automatic update installation does not install them. (Who would care about revocation of certificates that were fraudulently used or stolen, anyway? What do you want, actual security?). I've been in contact with Amazon CS about this issue and directed the, to this thread. Today I got this email'We apologise for the problem you have experienced with Send to Kindle for PC. Just to let you know, we have released a new version of this application that should fix the problem for you.To get the new version of this application, click on the following link to start the download:.
After the application has downloaded, open it to begin the installation.' I don't need to test it as I've loaded the updated roots manually, but I thought I would mention it here. I have had this problem on my netbook running XP, but not on my desktop running 7. I might try doing that send to kindle update first to see if they really fixed it on amazon's end. I'll do that a bit later when I fire up the netbook.Now if that doesn't work, that link given to the root thingy says windows 7, so I guess that wouldn't work for my XP machine anyway. So maybe my issue is a different issue then.eta: Ok, so I went to amazon to get the new send to kindle and the install file number was the same I already had. But I went ahead and re-installed it anyway.
Before I did that I tested one more time and I still had gotten the network error.So I re-installed and it asked to accept the policy and after that it worked. So this seems to have fixed it for me.Thanks for the help.
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