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.