Companies ending software support for devices is a regular occurrence that can brick products, force customers to buy new stuff, and inevitably add to the ever-growing piles of e-waste across the world. The latest offender? Amazon.

On May 20, Amazon will stop supporting any of its Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier. That means these devices—even if they’re perfectly functional—won’t be able to connect to the Kindle Store to download new e-books. Amazon says affected devices include the first- and second-generation Kindles, the Kindle DX and DX Graphite, the Kindle Keyboard, the Kindle 4, the Kindle Touch, the Kindle 5, and the first-generation Kindle Paperwhite. According to The Verge, Kindle Fire devices will also be affected on the ebook front, though other apps will still work on the device.

The move doesn’t completely turn your e-book reader into e-waste. On the older devices, you can still read the books you have downloaded. You can also manually download documents via USB cable. It's unclear whether services like Libby will work, which uses the Kindle Store to deliver downloads. (Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

Other recent examples of companies killing parts of the software on older devices include Spotify ending support for its