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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 LoganDark »

genewitch wrote: post #138
LoganDark wrote: post #54

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Most websites are like 50mb, my dude.

Still nearly a half million characters, though. That's 1:40 on dialup. Not 50MB, that's not lightweight, which this thread is about.

> Not 50MB, that's not lightweight, which this thread is about.

I'm not sure what you're meaning to say to this but my point was that 50MB is absolutely humongous and so many websites are around that order of magnitude. 91kb is a lot smaller than it could be, even though it's not exactly absolutely small.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by defensem3ch »

zuppy wrote: post #119
pathartl wrote: post #49

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I moved to Kobo because I bought my partner the Kindle Oasis and just after a year the battery couldn't hold a charge. I contacted Amazon and they would only give me 10% off a new device. I only found one person on the internet who was courageous enough to open one up. The screen was epoxied to the body with no way of opening the device without destroying the screen. So I got her a Kobo Libra H2O. Just as waterproof,…

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?

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Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by ksynwa »

esseti wrote: post #116

what are the main benefits of doing so? I'm missing what's the deal with jailbreak in this case, using thee transfer via USB? what's the best thing i can do afterwards?

I use Koreader on my Kobo ereader for a few reasons:

- Much much faster than stock interface

- More customisable

- Comes with an ssh server. I load a static rsync binary and use rsync for syncing the library

- Much better for reading manga. Supports cbz, cbr format natively. Has the ability to clip empty space around the content to make reading on a small screen easier.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by mdhen »

zuppy wrote: post #119
pathartl wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I moved to Kobo because I bought my partner the Kindle Oasis and just after a year the battery couldn't hold a charge. I contacted Amazon and they would only give me 10% off a new device. I only found one person on the internet who was courageous enough to open one up. The screen was epoxied to the body with no way of opening the device without destroying the screen. So I got her a Kobo Libra H2O. Just as waterproof,…

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?

https://open-slum.org/

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by nolok »

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

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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"

This is rather terrible for supporting authors though. I read a lot of scifi from small authors who self publish on kindle direct publishing, and I would rather they get my money for their work.

And yes I can pay then find the epub (and not all are available, due to small author), but the experience is then much worse.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by jamesy0ung »

averageRoyalty wrote: post #105
callc wrote: post #103

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Have human wellbeing as the priority in making products. Treat users with respect. Make hardware open, firmware open, repairable. Let’s be honest here, there are user hostile products and pro-user products. Let’s make making user hostile products illegal / unprofitable with laws.

For the record, my Kindle died after 4 years and Amazon replaced it. That one died after 2 and they replaced it again - all free. Australian Consumer Law is required to be followed if they want to trade here. If you want respect, speak to your lawmakers.

ACL is fantastic, gotten my 2017 MacBook Pro 15" fixed multiple times for free even out of applecare, last time it was fixed, it was 6 years old. Had issues with the keyboard, and the screen. Seems to be a common issue with this model.

https://gregsamborski.com/macbook-pro-led-screen-discolorati...

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by ReptileMan »

zuppy wrote: post #119
pathartl wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I moved to Kobo because I bought my partner the Kindle Oasis and just after a year the battery couldn't hold a charge. I contacted Amazon and they would only give me 10% off a new device. I only found one person on the internet who was courageous enough to open one up. The screen was epoxied to the body with no way of opening the device without destroying the screen. So I got her a Kobo Libra H2O. Just as waterproof,…

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?

anna archives

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by eloisant »

karparov wrote: post #136
taspeotis wrote: post #91

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Don’t they have a 12 month warranty? What do you want Amazon to do after more than 12 months? 10% discount is above and beyond their obligations.

12 months is a laughable amount of time. Sadly, companies have normalized such short periods of time, so much so that everybody would give me looks when I say that 5 or 10 years would be more appropriate. Especially tech folks, so I'm expecting pushback in a forum like HN. My in-laws have a few kitchen appliances from the 80s. Still working rock-solid. Not the wifi-enabled modern crap with some shitty cloud-based app…

In Europe the minimum is 2 years, but I agree it's still too short.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by starbugs »

ksynwa wrote: post #154

The amount of DRM and locking down Amazon bolts onto its ereaders and ebook formats feels insane to me. I can understand the profit motive but god damn.

> The amount of DRM and locking down Amazon bolts onto its ereaders and ebook formats feels insane to me. I can understand the profit motive but god damn.

I don't. I would be much happier buying ebooks without DRM and I would buy substantially more of them if they were DRM-free.

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