All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by diana-404 » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 1:42 AM UTC

All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 1:42 AM UTC

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Post by OuterVale » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 1:58 AM UTC

Kindles have long had a history of gaolbreaks. I've scarcely seen a scene as dedicated as the folks over on the MobileRead Forums (https://www.mobileread.com/forums). I notice many of the names associated with this new break as people who were associated with hacking early Kindles back in the early 2010s.

For context, it's been a little while since we've had a fresh gaolbreak for new Kindles. Last one was LanguageBreak, which came out back in 2023 and required firmware 5.16.2.1.1 or lower.

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Post by OuterVale » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 2:01 AM UTC

Relevant recent discussion:

Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th - 299 Points | 173 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070155

Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB" - 121 Points | 94 Comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041726

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Post by cadamsdotcom » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 2:07 AM UTC

OuterVale wrote: post #3

Kindles have long had a history of gaolbreaks. I've scarcely seen a scene as dedicated as the folks over on the MobileRead Forums ( https://www.mobileread.com/forums ). I notice many of the names associated with this new break as people who were associated with hacking early Kindles back in the early 2010s. For context, it's been a little while since we've had a fresh gaolbreak for new Kindles. Last one was LanguageB…

Mate, I’m Australian and even I think a gaol is just a dyslexic watching soccer.

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Post by xnx » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 2:08 AM UTC

New Kindle Jailbreak Works with Any Kindle on Any Firmware: 5 points | 45 days ago | 1 comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579291

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by diana-404 » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 2:10 AM UTC

OuterVale wrote: post #3

Kindles have long had a history of gaolbreaks. I've scarcely seen a scene as dedicated as the folks over on the MobileRead Forums ( https://www.mobileread.com/forums ). I notice many of the names associated with this new break as people who were associated with hacking early Kindles back in the early 2010s. For context, it's been a little while since we've had a fresh gaolbreak for new Kindles. Last one was LanguageB…

I'm new to kindle, I've been into this since 2021 so im not so aware of kindle's jailbreaking history. Can you tell me what gaolbreak is?

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Post by shasheene » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 2:11 AM UTC

Highlighting the very popular app enabled by this, KOReader: https://koreader.rocks/

https://github.com/koreader/koreader

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by shasheene » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 2:13 AM UTC

diana-404 wrote: post #7

OuterVale wrote: post #3

Kindles have long had a history of gaolbreaks. I've scarcely seen a scene as dedicated as the folks over on the MobileRead Forums ( https://www.mobileread.com/forums ). I notice many of the names associated with this new break as people who were associated with hacking early Kindles back in the early 2010s. For context, it's been a little while since we've had a fresh gaolbreak for new Kindles. Last one was LanguageB…

I'm new to kindle, I've been into this since 2021 so im not so aware of kindle's jailbreaking history. Can you tell me what gaolbreak is?

Gaol is an archaic spelling of jail, that retains the same pronunciation and meaning as jail :)

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by seneca » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 2:14 AM UTC

@dang Can we link to the actual article, instead of a reddit post? https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/