Don’t throw away your Kindle, Jailbreak it and take back ownership. Make your Kindle even better with KoReader and other apps. If you wanna see whats possible i recomment this Yt video. If you wanna get started here are all instructions: https://kindlemodding.org/ Don’t let it scare you it seems complicated but its just a lot of (easy) steps. So definitely possible in <2h.
Honestly I like my non-jailbroken kindle just fine, but I don’t buy ebooks through Amazon, I 🏴☠️ and use calibre to convert them to Kindle format.
I’ve done the same (except the 🏴☠️) but after reading the the koreader docs i found it gives you just so much more. For example i can see my calibre library from koreader and download any book i own withiut using my pc. And because ive it on an server i can do it from everywhere.
So much more what? You know what I want from an ereader? It presents text in a readable format and lets me turn the page/scroll/etc. Those are pretty slim requirements which even the kindle reader software meets, and anything beyond that is honestly probably just extraneous for me.
The downloading books thing is kinda handy, but my PC doesn’t have bluetooth or wifi, so that wouldn’t work for me anyway. I honestly don’t leave the house very much (I’m disabled) so I’m rarely far from my PC/USB cables.
“Came here to say I pirate.”
Unfortunately, just before that video aired Amazon broke jailbreaking with their 5.18.1 update (both for existing and new jailbreakers). WinterBreak is broken. Hopefully it can be worked around, but my guess will be that it’s not going to be possible again.
I’m going to get a Kobo Clara BW and use Koreader on there.
I used to have a kindle but when I upgraded I went for a kobo because of this kind of thing. Loving the kobo
Damn, just checked and mine got updated to 5.18.1 so I won’t be able to install this, right? I see some comment that one guy managed to go around by re-applying the hotfix
But not all kindles git this version right? My old one didn’t update And of course i wouldn’t buy a new one but ysed ones are cheap…
Maybe! I checked the Amazon update page and it looks like older models aren’t getting the update. Lucky you.
also dont buy kindles
Where do you get books for the Kindle if not at Amazon?
I have an ancient Kindle Paperwhite that I love. Lately it has become very sluggish but still works and I have only bought books for it at Amazon. I’d love to correct that discrepancy.
I Personally use kobo but i have used Thalia or Hugendubel in the past aa well. I think you can use nearly every bookstore and transfer them with calibre. But sometimes you’ll get a asc(?) file instead of a epub and then use some software to “convert” it and maybe remove the drm
What happened ?
Amazon disabled the the possibility to download the books you bougth onto your pc and sometimes they change or delete books wich will change the books on your kindle. In the yt video linked the person says the changed for example the cover of books to advertise a new show based on the book.
socialism for me but not for thee
I’ve never bought a Kindle a never will. I have a kobo sage and I love it. However, my friend gave me his and I jailbroke it. I have left the Amazon store disabled after the jailbreak. I just wish there is a way to remove the whole Amazon os and replace it with koreader.
Yeah a custom os would be really nice. I’ve seen you could install alpine but that also doesn’t relace the stock os
