The Breakdown

  • library card: zero subscription, public good
  • used Kindle: at least not new surveillance rig
  • Kindle DRM locks books to one ecosystem
  • Amazon data harvesting baked into the hardware
  • planned obsolescence still applies to used units

Side Effects

ancestors filing paperwork, bezos gets a cut anyway

Buy Instead

Skip the used Kindle. Get a library card — free books, no DRM, no data sold to Amazon.