Time to finally buy a Kindle I guess
All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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#222Highlighting the very popular app enabled by this, KOReader: https://koreader.rocks/ https://github.com/koreader/koreader
Koreader can also be installed on Kobo out of the box with no jailbreaking. Just in case anybody was thinking of getting a Kindle for this.
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#223After having three Kindles I moved to Kobo, and it was much, much better in the compatibility side of things.
Now I am using a PocketBook and it is also great. The synchronization feature between browser, phone and the reader is very good, it is reason enough to have it instead of a Kindle.
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#224Kobo 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 moved away from Kobo because of the ancient USB port, and got my PocketBook with USB-C four years ago, and I am still using the PocketBook.
With USB-C, Kobo would be a very good product. I guess they use it now.
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#225Earlier 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?
I don't know if it still works, but the last time I checked it was possible to un-DRM (de-DRM?), and convert amazon format to normal epub, and read it everywhere
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#226I am replying from my Daylight Computer. Happy to answer questions about it.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
I am with you but we are a small minority. I literally don't know anyone IRL who cares about DRM. I doubt people like us factor into their decision making at all.
No, but I know people wondering why this can't play this video in 4k or why their offline downloaded videos stopped working and they get a pop-up telling them that they need to go online to re-validate them.
Yes, not many people know what DRM is but many of the effects are noticed when it ruins their experience.
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#229Cool! But what prevents Amazon from patching this in a few days?
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#230Earlier 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?
I don't know if it still works, but the last time I checked it was possible to un-DRM (de-DRM?), and convert amazon format to normal epub, and read it everywhere
Yeah there's a way to do this with Calibre + some plugins on windows. I tried on my Mac but it was unsuccessful.