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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 II2II »

42772827 wrote: post #346
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 always found KOReader to be too fiddly for ePubs, has that changed recently or have I been doing it wrong? I want a set of sane defaults to be applied to every book, I don’t want to tweak every book individually. This leads to distraction for me

You can set defaults for all books. Simply long press on the option you want to be a global default. That said, it can still be fiddly since different books respond in different ways. Most of that seems to be due to differences in how publishers handle formatting, but I'm fairly certain that some of it is due to how the renderer handles things.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by aalam »

locusofself wrote: post #350
thehias wrote: post #330

Can you buy a "Kindle with ads" and remove these ads then after a Jailbreak?

You can usually just contact amazon support and they will remove the ads for you without a fee.

They don't do that anymore, at least not for me. I tried contacting two different support agents and both mentioned that the functionality has been removed for them by the higher-ups.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by ZiiS »

pidgeon_lover wrote: post #241

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 t…

The install talks though how to block OTA, wifi remains fully working.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by Agraillo »

drio wrote: post #256

I just wanted to express my support for KOReader—it’s a fantastic piece of software. I use it on my Kobo, and the UI is noticeably faster than the device’s default system. It also offers a wealth of customization options. This may not be an issue on newer e-readers, but the ability to highlight seamlessly across adjacent pages is truly liberating.

On a little technical side, the cross-platform engine of KOReader is developed in Lua and low level stuff like drawing and eInk specifics is different for every device. I think this separation might be very noticable for anyone running it on Android, almost no standard UI elements, dialogs, etc. But that's what makes this project so widespread device wise I think

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #94
taspeotis wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t they have a 12 month warranty? What do you want Amazon to do after more than 12 months? 10% discount is above and beyond their obligations.

Yes, every device should fail immediately upon warranty expiration. You should build a company founded on that principle. Call it GTL Pty Ltd Formerly known as Guaranteed To Last, but they dropped that naming and are now know simple as GTL after a social media smear campaign where people were saying ‘guaranteed to be the last thing you ever buy from that company’.

Oh, come on, they could totally own that smear campaign. "Guaranteed to be the last [class of device] you ever buy, unless you give it away." Something something heirlooms, put together a simple, 30-second narrative for the advertisement campaign, job done.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by smodo »

42772827 wrote: post #346
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 always found KOReader to be too fiddly for ePubs, has that changed recently or have I been doing it wrong? I want a set of sane defaults to be applied to every book, I don’t want to tweak every book individually. This leads to distraction for me

It’s still the case in my opinion. Yes, you can fiddle to make it work. You can set sane defaults. The heuristics for applying styles etc apparently are not clever enough because sometimes you still get strange results. Comparing it to the default Kobo reader is like using a Mac vs a Linux DE. As I’ve gotten older I find I no longer enjoy tweaking every possible parameter :)

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by nyrikki »

fkyoureadthedoc wrote: post #286
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.

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.

> Your Kindle must have a valid, internet-connected WiFi network saved to it that it can connect to during steps 8 to 10 (inclusive)

So only Kindle 3+ with keyboards work with this method, the early ones were whispernet only.

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