Hmm can a jailbroken Kindle receive library books via, say Libby/Overdrive or other method?
All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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#383Does this jailbreak allow unrestricted web browsing? Ability to read long threads on kindle would be amazing.
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#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only Americans (to the extent I know) differentiate jail and gaol. Jail and prison. I first read gaol in a 1960s kids book by Randolph Snow. An Australian as it happens. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/1496448
There's a confusion here. Gaol is simply a rarely used (I would say archaic) spelling of jail. It does not mean prison. British English also differentiates jail and prison, by extension I assume that's universal.
I feel like I've read, well not a lot, but a pretty decent amount. More than my average peer, probably.
I don't think I've ever once encountered "gaol" before today. Reading the parent comment, I believed it was a non-English language loanword, and probably a recent one at that, until I read the comments.
It's not like I avoid archaic works, either. It's possible I did come across the word at some point, but it was a one-off and without any repetition it faded quickly from my memory.
Am I a one-off?
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#385The 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 never buy ebooks from amazon because they come with drm (did once, it was annoying as hell to get it removed with downloading random python scripts and having to start a windows vm, never again). It obviously can't be to stop people copying, because all the books are available for free anyway, maybe publishers stupidly ask for it, but the most likely reason is that amazon wants you to read from their devices so the…
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#386Still can't remove the stupid "cloud not available" nag if your kindle isn't online though, which of course it shouldn't be or they'll delete your copy of 1984.
What nag? I keep mine in airplane mode and it doesn't nag me (unless I try to do something that requires the internet)
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#387My Kindle was bricked by an Amazon OTA update. Checkmate, atheists.
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#388I am replying from my Daylight Computer. Happy to answer questions about it. https://daylightcomputer.com
Looks interesting. Can you use it like a jailbroken device (ie, install whatever you want from the terminal on it)? Or is it locked down too?
As others have mentioned, it's simply Android by default.
They also officially endorse this wiki, which has information on unlocking the bootloader and gaining root access: https://www.daylighthacker.wiki
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#389I 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...
Unfortunately your Kindle needs to be registered to do this, and it's often a phenomenal pain in the ass to get old Kindles to register, if it's possible at all. I've got two old Paperwhites and I can't get either of them to register despite trying for hours and hours with every troubleshooting step I've found.
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#390Is it worth buying a Kindle now?