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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 nunez »

briandear wrote: post #253
einpoklum wrote: post #214

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> rather terrible for supporting authors ... scifi from small authors who self > publish on kindle ... I would rather they get my money for their work. I would suggest you write them (each of them) a letter, or email, which: 1. Discourage them from publishing on an Amazon platform, explaining how Amazon, and DRM-laden reading, is terrible. 2. Suggest that they publish with a link allowing readers to pay them directly…

But Amazon DRM-laden reading isn’t terrible. I buy a book, it’s on my Kindle. With Kindle Unlimited, I can read tons of books for a fairly small monthly price. Not sure what problem we’re trying to solve.

The problem of supporting authors who actually want to be paid more than beer money (or any money, really) for their work, for one.

There's also the problem of moving those books onto another platform once Amazon directly affects you and you wish to move onto something else. (Amazon Unlimited DRM hasn't been broken yet.)

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by testfrequency »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #272
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 recently had a very bad experience with Kobo.com. Bought an ebook thinking I could simply download and view it on computer. haha was I naive... I could not download it from the website, instead the download gave me some XML file for some Adobe shit app, which would then download it. But I did not sign up to download and install Adobe shit on my machine. So another option is using the Kobo app. But guess what... the…

DRM free ebooks are very few and far between, especially current titles.

What you describe is a pain and all true, this is just the state of ebooks unfortunately.

Kobo is not great at offering refunds like Amazon, as expected in many ways being a much more lean business not being propped up by AWS margins.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by nunez »

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

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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?

I have a reMarkable 2. It's better as a book annotator than a book reader, IMO. It's fine for my use case (reading during rest periods while at the gym), but I wouldn't use it as a full-time reader, as it can get quite slow and doesn't have very many eReader features.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by nunez »

dwayne_dibley wrote: post #150
xethos wrote: post #66

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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.

libreddit instances are even better (if you're just a lurker)

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Post by matsemann »

barrkel wrote: post #240
hemant6488 wrote: post #73

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...

My old kindle is a Kindle 3 from 2010, and it's still my primary e-ink reader. I still haven't found a compelling reason to upgrade.

I gave up on my first paperwhite last year (10+ years old). Would randomly lose its charge, which was annoying when bringing it on trips (and often not having an old micro-usb charger lying around). And from being stuck into all kinds of pockets and bags without a protector (half the use was it fitting in my pants) had seriously scratched up the screen. The new one I got is nice, but other than the old one being beaten up, I don't notice much difference. A bit faster to click around, but in the end it's mostly the same.

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Post by fkyoureadthedoc »

barrkel wrote: post #240
hemant6488 wrote: post #73

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...

My old kindle is a Kindle 3 from 2010, and it's still my primary e-ink reader. I still haven't found a compelling reason to upgrade.

Not sure what my old kindle version was, it had a keyboard though, but I upgraded eventually because I wanted a warm toned backlight. It's nice that the newer ones are a bit snappier too.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by JansjoFromIkea »

GTP wrote: post #276
JansjoFromIkea wrote: post #238

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I got a Kindle (moving on from an absolutely ancient rooted Nook) purely because the Oasis looked so nice I'll never get a Kindle again because I was blown away by how impossible it was to repair (plus the closed system really sucks). Mine broke for no reason at all a bit ago; my best guess is the battery started to swell inside it and that broke the screen. Got a Forma super cheap ($25!) and I've been super happy wi…

Where did you find a Kobo Forma so cheap? A quick check on Ebay lists the cheapest at 150€, but maybe I'm looking at the wrong model.

Just got really lucky. Someone hadn't a clue what they were selling, was listed as "Kobo e reader" or something very vague like that. Fully expected it to either be broken or not match the image.

In general the Forma looks overpriced imo, the benefits of the 8 inch screen don't really warrant a price that nears the Libra Color or Sage.

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Post by homebrewer »

paulcole wrote: post #274
ornornor wrote: post #237

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Koreader is much better than the stock software.

In what ways specifically?

Support for epubs and RSS, much more responsive UI, night mode, Calibre integration + SSH server (you can send books over Wi-Fi), countless settings to adjust pretty much anything (for example, you can set margins to zero ­— the minimum margins on stock firmware are insane). The list goes on.

edit: found this link. I don't think this list is complete.

https://koreader.rocks/user_guide/#whatcanyoudo

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by calimariae »

barrkel wrote: post #240
hemant6488 wrote: post #73

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...

My old kindle is a Kindle 3 from 2010, and it's still my primary e-ink reader. I still haven't found a compelling reason to upgrade.

I upgraded from Kindle Keyboard to Kindle 2023 last year. Backlight is very nice and I appreciate its lighter weight, but otherwise it's pretty much the same.
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