https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=TRXsYxKJr4WTdsVs2P 

“Effective May 20, 2026, Amazon will end support for Kindle E-Readers released in 2012 or earlier. ”

It's finally happening. I have a 1st generation Kindle (the one with a physical keyboard) and it's still running great.

I've been primarily using it for library books but this can be an opportunity to just use my library services directly instead of integrating with Kindle so I guess this works out.