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Post by jorvi »

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.

USB-C on the newer Paperwhites (and base Kindles? IDK if those changed over yet), in case you just want all your (portable) gear to be USB-C.

What is extremely annoying is people constantly and universally lauding the Kindle for Kids option, when it is only offered in the US. Or, at least, its barely offered in the EU.

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Post by seanicus »

calimariae wrote: post #290
barrkel wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yup yup yup. I cracked my keyboard and got a paperwhite. I love the dark mode for late night reading but would probably go back to a refurbished keyboard in the face of any strife; just like the old form factor more.

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Post by kubb »

drewbitt wrote: post #317
kubb wrote: post #127

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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.

Thank you for this! My Victorian novel reading experience is about to level up.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by WolfeReader »

starbugs wrote: post #160
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.

> 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.

Kobo tells you when books have DRM and when they don't (at the bottom of the store page for each book). I'd recommend supporting them over Amazon any day.

Besides that, a lot of publishers who sell their own books do so without DRM by default. As does almost every book bundle hosted by Humble Bundle.

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Post by b0dhimind »

kluyg wrote: post #308

KOReader on Kindle Scribe 2022: https://imgur.com/a/oYshWxI KOReader is so good for reading PDFs, compared to the native reader, I’m very impressed. Supports proper landscape mode (where swiping to next page moves to the second half of the current page, THEN next swipe gets you to the first half of the next page), supports auto-rotation, support auto-cropping of PDFs with controllable margin (killer feature), support…

I have a lot of PDFs and this is the most interesting. Do you use the Calibre KOReader add-on to sync and manage? Does that work well? Do deletions of books sync? Does highlighting annotation work/sync fine? I would make the move just for that alone since SendtoKindle is kind of basic.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by ewoodrich »

chasil wrote: post #323
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.

Loading F-Droid onto a modern Kindle Fire is quite simple. You can also install FFUpdater (either via F-Droid or directly) for a huge range of browsers. What do you see as locked down?

They're referencing the e-reader line of Kindles running a custom locked down OS (Kindle Paperwhite/Basic/Scribe/Colorsoft)

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Post by throaway89 »

RajT88 wrote: post #46
thaumasiotes wrote: post #26

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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 the traditional spelling. You'll see it in the British Isles, and on some old buildings here in Canada.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by ajusa »

kluyg wrote: post #308

KOReader on Kindle Scribe 2022: https://imgur.com/a/oYshWxI KOReader is so good for reading PDFs, compared to the native reader, I’m very impressed. Supports proper landscape mode (where swiping to next page moves to the second half of the current page, THEN next swipe gets you to the first half of the next page), supports auto-rotation, support auto-cropping of PDFs with controllable margin (killer feature), support…

Which book is being read in that screenshot? Looks interesting. I did a few searches based on the text and couldn't find it.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by Saris »

jorvi wrote: post #331
barrkel wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

USB-C on the newer Paperwhites (and base Kindles? IDK if those changed over yet), in case you just want all your (portable) gear to be USB-C. What is extremely annoying is people constantly and universally lauding the Kindle for Kids option, when it is only offered in the US. Or, at least, its barely offered in the EU.

Those USB-C to microUSB adapters are handy, I keep one in my backpack since my camera and some other things are microUSB.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by fennecfoxy »

mvdtnz wrote: post #50
jclulow wrote: post #47

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Geeze, Louise! Did a Koala mercilessly bully you while you were there, mate?

I have no problem with Australians, I think they're mostly great. Occasionally you'll get an obnoxious one who insists on inserting "gaol" into a conversation just to kick off an insanely stupid side thread.

Tbf as a Kiwi (currently in the UK) I see a lot of Australians, when interacting with other cultures, kick up their Australian-ness as much as they can; strengthening the accent, swearing way, _way_ more than they usually would, using "mate" "bloody" etc way more than they do just speaking to me.

I mean when two Australasians speak with each other in a foreign place I definitely hear the accent rise up a bit more outta the both of us but Aussies are something else when it comes to putting on a show, especially when Americans are involved (in my experience).

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