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Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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I revived my old kindle pw7 using this a week or so ago. If you have an old kindle lying around, you can use it as an e-ink weather dashboard (or anything else for that matter, as long as you can convert it into a 8bit greyscale image). https://terminalbytes.com/reviving-kindle-paperwhite-7th-gen...

Nice to see a good write up. I did the same a year ago, it refreshes every hour (except night) and battery needs to be charged every 24-25 days.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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post #46

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> Only Americans (to the extent I know) differentiate jail and gaol. Jail and prison. You inhabit a very different reality than everybody else. Americans do not differentiate jail and gaol; Americans don't use the word "gaol" under any circumstances, ever. It is not a part of American English.

American here. Never seen the word written before.

It's a common spelling in fantasy video games and books, but it feels kind of performative.

These same games will have voice actors pronounce "ye" as it's written, unaware that the y is a typographic substitute for Þ. "ye olde" is pronounced "the old". But likewise, there's some VAs that clearly only ever read a word, like in the newer God of War games where a character mangles "prescient".

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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post #19

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"tyre" is just UK English

As is gaol

I did some googling and it turns out "gaol" was indeed the more popular spelling, but only up until 1960 when "jail" took over; numbers: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gaol%2Cjail&ye...

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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post #156

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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.

Contact the author, send direct to paypal. this way you get freedom, they get more money

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

#176
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?

Use it as an external display or control center; it's hard to find decent and affordable standalone e-ink screens.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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post #92

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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.

It's completely reasonable to expect it to last longer than 12 months, especially considering this is their premium model.

In Europe, consumers should be getting longer protection than 1 year. May require a fight / small claims court submission to exercise one's rights.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Sad that 91kb is considered small.

Most websites are like 50mb, my dude.

Incorrect, most are ~2.5 MB; granted, the size has steadily increased over the years. But 50 MB sites are an exception. https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/page-weight

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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post #135

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Obviously, you haven't visited any colonial American sites. It used to be the normal spelling.

I've also seen the spelling used in old westerns, which I just so happened to be reading in jail.

Non-native speaker here and I learned the word gaol from some fantasy literature only a couple years back.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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post #156

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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.

This is partially on the author, and I say this as somebody how writes as a hobby. It's not too difficult to publish on the Kobo store, and there are other stores out there. Of course, it's difficult to compete with Amazon when it comes to reach and to some small features, but they are no panacea either. For example, they don't support epub 3 with aural synchronized media, and they do something terrible to images embedded into ebooks that make them frankly useless. And they charge authors an outrageous amount for kilobyte of ebook content.
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