Is it worth buying a Kindle now?
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All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Penitentiary? Maybe it is as a your-state thing? Never heard of it down here in NSW, and I worked with Police, Justice Department, Juvi, and the rest of police to prison pipeline.
You're probably right. I was thinking of "Correction Centre" or other terms.
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#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you know if they SAY jail or gaol given they're pronounced the same, being alternate spellings of the same word? Nobody writes/uses I can concur. The pedantry here, is somewhat apposite surely?
Fair enough. No one writes it then. Although it could be a world thats only ever spoken. If there is such a thing.
I could tell you more words that are only ever spoken, but not here.
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
#394Is it worth buying a Kindle now?
No, Kobos are a better choice. Much more consumer-friendly, even if the default book store is still DRM-encumbered.
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#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is rather terrible for supporting authors though. I read a lot of scifi from small authors who self publish on kindle direct publishing, and I would rather they get my money for their work. And yes I can pay then find the epub (and not all are available, due to small author), but the experience is then much worse.
This is partially on the author, and I say this as somebody how writes as a hobby. It's not too difficult to publish on the Kobo store, and there are other stores out there. Of course, it's difficult to compete with Amazon when it comes to reach and to some small features, but they are no panacea either. For example, they don't support epub 3 with aural synchronized media, and they do something terrible to images emb…
> they charge authors an outrageous amount for kilobyte of ebook content
Probably because of the kindles with 'free data' to download books.
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
#396Before I swapped to Kobo I jailbroke my Kindle Voyage and installed Koreader on it. It was amazing.
I would have kept the voyage for longer but the micro-usb was killing me. That's the only reason, the battery was still holding on, it had turning page "buttons" (better than nothing) and an amazing screen.
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#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
It benefits Amazon obviously, but otherwise it's a massive shame to ebooks as a whole. I was really excited about ebooks when they started, but DRM has completely stagnated the format so much that I've almost completely given up on ebooks now, and read hard copies instead unless I really want to read something and it isn't otherwise available.
What about the format is stagnant? I haven't read a physical book in roughly a decade, and haven't remotely found ebooks lacking. And to be clear, I understand and agree with the moral objections to DRM. I think we have lost something more than just the loss of ownership and control. But while you're actually reading an ebook, none of that ever actually affects the experience.
I would love to see some more interactive fiction (like Twine) possible. Aside that though, I think formatting to me, seems constantly poor. I think you'd have a really hard time rendering something like Hope Mirles' Paris (you might need to google it!) in ebook form well.
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#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
What's the best reader for KOReader? I'm in the market for a new one and would like one that handles everything a kindle does not.
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#399Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I got like 740 on the verbal SAT and I’ve never seen it
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
#400Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you see the "Troubleshooting" section after the jailbreak install instructions?
Thanks for your help. I've just tried it. It failed with “unexpected error” again --- I believe the first error I got was also this one. I'm not sure what I might be doing wrong.
I tried again. This time I chose “Set up later” after the factory reset, so that I don't have to waste time completing the steps after registration. I got a “Kindle Store is currently unavailable” error. This error is more likely to be the first error I got.
Edit: I finally got it working by trying one more time, without factory reset.