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Post by Lalabadie »

matsemann wrote: post #285
barrkel wrote: post #240

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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 beat…

Mine would have longer and longer delays on each page turn when I started using it again last year. It's a 10+ years Paperwhite as well.

I jailbroke it and installed KOReader. Suddenly, no delays, great interface, wi-fi sync with Calibre. I might replace the battery one day, but it still lasts 2-3 books.

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Post by wand3r »

kevincox wrote: post #228
NoboruWataya wrote: post #185

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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.

I agree, however they probably assume it's their fault or something to do with this arcane black box they use but don't quite understand how it works.

For me, I bought a single DRM book against my better judgement because it was the only available way to get it quickly at the time. Predictably, I eventually lost access to it and never bought another one since.

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Post by roywiggins »

x1ph0z wrote: post #296

I can’t understand how kindles are popular when there’s a plethora of ebook readers without the locked down DRM.

It's usually up to the publisher whether their ebooks are DRMed or not, the Kobo store (eg) uses DRM also.

You can, of course, read non-DRMed eBooks on a Kindle, if you can find them.

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Post by wnolens »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #185
starbugs wrote: post #160

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> 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.

I have never considered DRM on my Kindle, been using one for 15 years. I can buy any book on Amazon which is any book id be trying to read on this small format, and read it immediately for usually a maximum of $10. Never had want for more!

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Post by hnbad »

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #200
ggm wrote: post #19

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As is gaol

Brit here. Nobody here says "gaol" in normal speech or writing. Usually "prison", sometimes "jail".

Pet peeve of mine but technically prison is for convicts, jail is for those yet awaiting a conviction but who aren't trusted to show up to court if allowed to roam freely. That the jail system (in the US especially) has essentially become a form of preemptive incarceration without the presumption of innocence is largely an artefact of the bond system, the overwhelmed courts and the perverse incentives in all of those systems from law enforcement to private prisons.

I realize the terms are often used interchangeably but I think the distinction is important especially because of the implications for presumption of innocence from conflating the two.

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Post by safety1st »

teroshan wrote: post #262
safety1st wrote: post #252

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I was actually trying out KOReader (on Android via F-droid) last night and it... looks promising... but better than the Kindle app, really? It doesn't have a dark mode which is basically baseline for me reading at night. Or am I missing something?

Is Night Mode what you are looking for? https://koreader.rocks/user_guide/#autowarmth

I... think... it is. Thank you!

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Post by drewbitt »

kubb wrote: post #127
shasheene wrote: post #8

Highlighting the very popular app enabled by this, KOReader: https://koreader.rocks/ https://github.com/koreader/koreader

Does it have machine translation? That would be a killer feature for me. Edit: it has AskGPT!

For translation of more than a couple sentences on demand, you'd more likely translate the epub before you put it on the device, like with the Calibre plugin https://github.com/bookfere/Ebook-Translator-Calibre-Plugin . There are better solutions that have a dictionary for consistent name translations, too.

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Post by hnbad »

emmelaich wrote: post #35
mvdtnz wrote: post #29

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"Tyre" is extremely common throughout most of the English speaking world. "Gaol" is used by attention-seeking Australians desperately hoping to kick off dumb threads like this.

In Australia, gaol is far more common than jail. Neither are used anymore really. It's more often just prison or penitentiary. Some of Australia's more popular historical sites are old gaols.

Strictly speaking Australia doesn't seem to have jails, although some "Community Correction Centers" serve the purpose of jails (i.e. holding suspects before trial): https://vanessaash.com.au/whats-the-difference-jail-and-pris...

Prisons are where convicts go. Jails are where suspects awaiting trial go. People in prisons have been convicted and sentenced. People in jails might be proven guilty or not.

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Post by chasil »

pyuser583 wrote: post #80
yellowapple wrote: post #42

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I'm an American and I don't differentiate between jail and gaol; I just assumed the latter to just be a funny European spelling of the former. But yes, we do differentiate between jail and prison - the former usually being for those with short sentences or for those awaiting trial, and the latter being for those with long sentences. Interesting that other countries don't maintain that distinction - but I guess most c…

The American distinction is jail v prison. In practice, the distinction is overblown. Jails do hold long term prisoners, and prisons get pre-trial prisoners too. There’s literally a market for jail beds. So prisoners are often sent where there’s an open spot, with little distinction between “short term” and “long term”. A better distinction is that jails are run by a law enforcement agency, while prisons are not.

A county jail is commonly used for defendants accused of state crimes until their sentencing, after their convictions.

Post conviction, the prisoner will be moved to a state penitentiary to serve out their sentence.

I don't know how these distinctions work at the federal level.

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Post by fastball »

laserlight wrote: post #110

Didn't work on my Kindle Paperwhite (10th generation) with firmware 5.17.1.0.3.

According to this section[1] of the website, the latest jailbreakable firmware for PW4 (10th gen) is 5.14.2.

Not sure where the title of this HN post came from, but given the jailbreak came out on Jan 1st, I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon has already patched the exploit for hardware they're still supporting.

[1] https://kindlemodding.org/firmware-and-flashing/downloading-...

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