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All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by jamiek88 »

donatj wrote: post #109
fvrther wrote: post #39

Kobo are giving you root access with telnet from the start. You can flash modded firmwares, change the backend servers to phone your own calibre-web instance, install ssh, koreader and even a tailscale vpn on it. They even have UART pins labelled on their board. These are amazing devices to play with. And they read pretty much everything you throw on their storage: epub, cbz, cbr, pdf..

I bought a pretty early Kobo like 10+ years ago and found myself very underwhelmed with the software situation. I sold it and went back to my kindle. Maybe it's time to take a second look. The hacker in me's interest is piqued. Frankly though, the biggest thing that keep me on Kindle these days I suspect are hard to replicate. For example, automatic audio book/kindle sync where I can switch back and forth, listening…

I don’t use any Amazon hardware but Kindle Unlimited has got me like netflix did back in the day.

Trashy sci fi is my vice.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by sandeep1998 »

londons_explore wrote: post #139
zuppy wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my biggest fear from moving out of kindle is losing access to the store. they did a good job securing most of the authors and books. what’s your source for books and how often it happens for the books you’re looking for to be unavailable?

google search "book_name epub"

same

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by dwayne_dibley »

fvrther wrote: post #39

Kobo are giving you root access with telnet from the start. You can flash modded firmwares, change the backend servers to phone your own calibre-web instance, install ssh, koreader and even a tailscale vpn on it. They even have UART pins labelled on their board. These are amazing devices to play with. And they read pretty much everything you throw on their storage: epub, cbz, cbr, pdf..

I'm still daily using my kobo touch from 2011, my oldest piece of 'still in use tech' (other than the Wii, which the kids still bowl on!).

Not being bound to an ecosystem, has really been a blessing - and in part kept it in use.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by throawayonthe »

londons_explore wrote: post #139
zuppy wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my biggest fear from moving out of kindle is losing access to the store. they did a good job securing most of the authors and books. what’s your source for books and how often it happens for the books you’re looking for to be unavailable?

google search "book_name epub"

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Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by t-3 »

fvrther wrote: post #39

Kobo are giving you root access with telnet from the start. You can flash modded firmwares, change the backend servers to phone your own calibre-web instance, install ssh, koreader and even a tailscale vpn on it. They even have UART pins labelled on their board. These are amazing devices to play with. And they read pretty much everything you throw on their storage: epub, cbz, cbr, pdf..

What you can't do on Kobo is use the page up and down buttons to scroll in the web browser unless you go through the effort of installing the cross-compiling toolchain and building a display server and a browser.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by thaumasiotes »

petesergeant wrote: post #52
thaumasiotes wrote: post #31

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More significantly, Collins just says " British a variant spelling of jail". https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/gaol I believe Collins is the standard dictionary that British people use, much like Merriam-Webster for Americans.

> I believe Collins is the standard dictionary that British people use And you would be wrong. They've only been putting out a dictionary since 1979. OED[0] is The Dictionary in the UK, and I've quoted its take on it in an adjacent comment. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary

Well, come on, that's obviously false. Zero percent of British people own an OED or even have the resources necessary to consult one when they want to look something up. It costs over a thousand US dollars.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by zuppy »

londons_explore wrote: post #139
zuppy wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my biggest fear from moving out of kindle is losing access to the store. they did a good job securing most of the authors and books. what’s your source for books and how often it happens for the books you’re looking for to be unavailable?

google search "book_name epub"

... but this does not replicate the kindle one-stop store experience. and looking on the kobo store doesn't help either, i wanted the experience for someone who actually migrated from kindle. i may find the books i'm looking for now, but what are the struggles for people who actually used it? do they come later than kindle, are they using multiple shops, etc.

edit; yes, i know about the pirating options. i'm not talking about those.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by a-french-anon »

londons_explore wrote: post #139
zuppy wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my biggest fear from moving out of kindle is losing access to the store. they did a good job securing most of the authors and books. what’s your source for books and how often it happens for the books you’re looking for to be unavailable?

google search "book_name epub"

`filetype:epub book_name` should be tried first, in my opinion.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by dwayne_dibley »

xethos wrote: post #66
restlessdesign wrote: post #58

For those who prefer the default Reddit UI: https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/1hrwytr/all_kindles...

Each say we stray further from God's light. I could rant about how dramatically heavier the new Reddit UI is, but I'd be wasting my time - the people here should presumably know why making everything heavier isn't great Or maybe they don't, as evidenced by this new Reddit link not being absolutely buried

old.reddit is the only reddit.
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