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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 pidgeon_lover »

This is good news, but I am curious about the Wifi requirement - is the jailbreak web-based? Is Wifi usable afterwards on Mesquito-jailbroken Kindles?

I know on my older jailbroken Kindles, the jailbreak is very fragile and they can no longer be connected to the internet, partly because of Amazon's agressive OTAs and partly because Amazon disables developer mode and hence the jailbreak every time my Kindle 4s touch the internet.

(PS. If anyone can suggest a way to prevent this and secure my jailbreaks, it would be much appreciated - I've tried 3 different OTA blockers and none work reliably)

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

rusticpenn wrote: post #113
freedomben wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! You just sold a kobo :-) I have a remarkable 2 and really like it, but my wife needs a new "Kindle" and I'd rather cut my finger off than pay Amazon to abuse me. Looking forward to trying out the kobo

Is remarkable 2 a good ebook reader?

Fwiw, several stories here on HN about remarkable, so a search is probably worth doing if you've not read those other stories yet.

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Post by maverwa »

deadbabe wrote: post #27
RandomBK wrote: post #20

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The entire frontpage was just 468KB, 91KB compressed, and most of that was the search index. Very neat!

Sad that 91kb is considered small.

~10kb of that are for the client side search library ("lunr") and 50.7kb for that searchs index. So around 2/3 of the whole first load size are "just" for the local search feature. The remaining 30kb split up in ~7kb of additional javascript, 16kb of stylesheets, and 7kb of html (content, markup, inline styles & scripts).

I am surprised by the amount of CSS, 109kb uncompressed but minified is a lot of styles for a rather simple design, but I guess its the "just-the-docs" standard and thus somewhat verbose by being generic.

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Post by vanderZwan »

goosedragons wrote: post #222
shasheene wrote: post #8

Highlighting 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.

It's worth doing so on older kobo readers in my experience because it turns pages faster, and it also correctly displays embedded ePub fonts that the native software doesn't. I don't know how many of you will ever read books that feature APL glyphs so I don't know how relevant that last bit is, and I can't speak for more recent models.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by mkmk »

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.

It makes more sense if you think about it as something that they need to do in order to make sure that their marketplace attracts a wide range of publishing companies, some of which have very different perspectives on digital piracy, than as a way for them to retain a small percentage of revenue that DRM could theoretically protect.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by joseda-hg »

goosedragons wrote: post #211
zuppy wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... 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 talk…

Kobo in my experience has all the books from big publishers, the publishers that publish paper books too. What they do not have is the stuff from Kindle Direct Publishing. This is stuff people have self-published on Kindle, I think Amazon requires exclusivity when you do that too? In my opinion this is actually more of a blessing than a curse since I consider 99% of that garbage I don't want to sift through. Sometime…

IIRC they give you a better revenue split or something of that nature if you only publish there

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by digikazi »

ornornor wrote: post #236
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?

Libgen, #bookz on irc, and dedrm plugin for calibre will let you get drm free copies of books you already own so you can use them however you see fit

Sadly Libgen seems to have been down for the past couple of months, there is some discussion whether it will ever come back or not.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by submeta »

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..

Wow, this is so unbelievable, that I decided to sell my Kindle Oasis and get a Kobo. Thank you for this comment. I hate the restrictions on my Kindle.
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