Amazon broke my Kindles, old and new

 I am thoroughly disgusted with Amazon right now, especially as regards their treatment of my Kindles.

I have owned four or five Kindles over the years.  My oldest, my Kindle Touch, is in many ways my favorite. I've also owned two or three of the 2015 era Kindles, including an HD model I gave to my sister.  Both my 2015s I rooted so I could run Google Play on them.  Worked fine, such as they were.  My latest is a Kindle Fire HD 8+, which includes Alexa functionality.  I added Google Play on that too, without having to root it.  Really quite useful as a low-cost Android tablet, and plenty for my purposes.

And then...

The other day I got a notice that the tablet was archiving apps I hadn't used for a while.  I hadn't asked for that so I was a bit disconcerted.  Then I wanted to use  the Fire to look at my medical records via my local hospital and Firefox, my chosen viewer.  Not there.  Checked the archiving app.  Not there.  Google Play is gone along with the apps I'd installed via Google Play, including my web browser.  And my access to my medical records -- I'm dealing with Multiple Myeloma -- is no longer available on my best Kindle Fire. (Amazon doesn't call it a Kindle anymore.  Fuck 'em.)

I can still consume Amazon content on my 8 incher -- gee thanks guys -- so I'm reading a barely adequate book via my Kindle Unlimited subscription.  Yes, I still have that, I have read a lot for a long while, and I can at least see on the Kindle.  So, warm sunny day out, sat out on the porch to read.  The 8+ doesn't do well in bright sun, so I went to switch to my aged Kindle Touch ...

 And was asked for a Passcode.

I never put a passcode on my Touch.  Didn't want to, didn't know it was even possible.  So I couldn't access my Touch anymore.  Did a search and found how to reset the thing with just a Passcode, did that, and then found re-registering doesn't work.  So my Kindle Touch is useless to me, too.  Supposedly it'd work, but now Amazon no longer considers it to be my Touch.  And yes, I found another entry on how to register using the OTP, that didn't work, either.

Of the two remaining Kindles that I rooted, one quit to black -- probably the battery -- and I haven't tried the other.  I want my 8+ back, with all the apps I added.  And Google Playstore, too, given Amazon decided to dump their own Appstore.

I'm old, I'm on Social Security, and I can't afford another tablet.  Sigh.  Amazon, what the hell are you doing?