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Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by Footprint0521 »

okeuro49 wrote: post #23
kioleanu wrote: post #18

I’ve just jailbroken my Kindle this week. I have a Paperwhite 7th Generation and my biggest problem was that I didn’t have dark mode on it. Turns out the only reason that is is because Amazon didn’t want me to have it. Maybe maybe I’ll buy a new device. KOReader has no problem with dark mode and is much faster and snappier than the Kindle software. What’s funnier is that both my son and my wife have the Paperwhite 10…

> Same exact device, different software depending on when it was bought. Can't you update it to the latest firmware? https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

Nooo, now you can’t jailbreak it :,(

That’s what I did before I looked into KOReader and now I’m sad I did

Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by joshstrange »

mantesso wrote: post #80
joshstrange wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

KOReader + BookOrbit (or Calibe or whatever you like best) is awesome. KOReader is finicky to configure but once you have it set up its hands down the best experience. I use BookShelf as my main UI and BookEnds to configure the header/footer. I also use KOAssistant which lets you select text and chuck it at an LLM to explain/translate/custom-prompt/etc. It was so nice when reading the Horatio Hornblower series where…

> Just select a phrase, hit Explain, and in seconds get an LLM response right there on my kindle. but will it explain without giving spoilers?

I’m normally selecting snippets small enough that they don’t invite spoilers. I think the plugin gives the book author/title but I don’t know the full prompt (I should look). So far I’ve not hit any spoilers. For all I know the prompt says something about avoiding spoilers.

I’ve thought for a while about writing something that only gives the model access to the book as far as you are. Maybe some king of RAG but with page numbers associated so you can filter “For the Horatio Hornblower series it was mostly older English phrases that had the feel of a “saying” but I couldn’t be sure of the meaning. Getting a response like “in the late 1700’s this phrase was used to mean…” was really cool, better than having to pull out my phone or just guess.

Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by fn-mote »

Footprint0521 wrote: post #81
okeuro49 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Same exact device, different software depending on when it was bought. Can't you update it to the latest firmware? https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

Nooo, now you can’t jailbreak it :,( That’s what I did before I looked into KOReader and now I’m sad I did

Turn off updates and wait.

Also, if the rest of the software world is any guide, turning an LLM loose on it would find a new jailbreak in short order.

Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by fn-mote »

peter_retief wrote: post #25

Any suggestions for an ancient Chromebook? Have one that is managed by a school from 10 years ago and they failed to release the device. I am a fan of alpine Linux which i think may work well on an old Chromebook. Any suggestions/links welcome

> managed by a school […] and they failed to release the device.

This means you cannot install the alternate OS setups mentioned in sibling comments.

Throw it away.

ETA: info correct as of a long time ago. I have done no new research.

Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by exhumet »

dewey wrote: post #37
eddythompson80 wrote: post #31

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I don’t know man. Maybe it’s a great reader for those who really need to customize everything. However, I found it very hard to use. I can never find settings where I’d expect them to be. Is font or margins or hyphenation under the Gear symbol or the Document symbol or the Wrench symbol or the long-press book settings? Is it then under Typography, Display, Style, Text or Miscellaneous? I had it on my ereader to check…

> Also, I realize this is a personal preference, I don’t like the “file explorer” view. I prefer a “library” view like Kobo or Kindle defaults to. If that makes sense. I'm with you, my reading device is something where I don't want to fiddle or be distracted by settings and options. I just want a stock, opinionated device with good defaults that just works and I have to charge once a month. That's it.

agreed, obviously reading a book itself is the simplest way to read a book. but the simplest way to carry around an entire library is technology. so id like to remove the fiddling or needing to interact with said technology as a barrier to me turning off my brain from life to get sucked into a book

Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by exhumet »

joshstrange wrote: post #75
benterris wrote: post #15

KOReader (mentioned in the article, an alternative OSS interface you can install on most ereaders) is really a marvellous piece of software. I was not sure about setting it up at first, fearing it would drain battery out of my Kobo and whatnot, but I never had any issue with it. The amount of stuff you can customize to your liking has no limit and I feel I have reached the endgame of reading comfort. If you own an er…

KOReader + BookOrbit (or Calibe or whatever you like best) is awesome. KOReader is finicky to configure but once you have it set up its hands down the best experience. I use BookShelf as my main UI and BookEnds to configure the header/footer. I also use KOAssistant which lets you select text and chuck it at an LLM to explain/translate/custom-prompt/etc. It was so nice when reading the Horatio Hornblower series where…

woahhhhhh i had no clue about book orbit. i found calibre stuff to be a bit jank at times. This is super cool. gonna toss an instance on my server tonight

Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by joshstrange »

exhumet wrote: post #86
joshstrange wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

KOReader + BookOrbit (or Calibe or whatever you like best) is awesome. KOReader is finicky to configure but once you have it set up its hands down the best experience. I use BookShelf as my main UI and BookEnds to configure the header/footer. I also use KOAssistant which lets you select text and chuck it at an LLM to explain/translate/custom-prompt/etc. It was so nice when reading the Horatio Hornblower series where…

woahhhhhh i had no clue about book orbit. i found calibre stuff to be a bit jank at times. This is super cool. gonna toss an instance on my server tonight

This [0] may or may not interest you, yes it’s vibe coded but I wanted a way to hook BookOrbit into my Omni-Claude [1] instance.

[0] https://github.com/joshstrange/bookorbit-mcp

[1] This isn’t a “thing”, just Claude code on the CLI that has access to my obsidian notes, home assistant, Unifi, bookorbit, etc. My own, very limited “Claw”. “Speaking” home assistant automations into existence is a whole other topic I could on and on about.

Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by Xerox9213 »

ktaube wrote: post #69
eddythompson80 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know man. Maybe it’s a great reader for those who really need to customize everything. However, I found it very hard to use. I can never find settings where I’d expect them to be. Is font or margins or hyphenation under the Gear symbol or the Document symbol or the Wrench symbol or the long-press book settings? Is it then under Typography, Display, Style, Text or Miscellaneous? I had it on my ereader to check…

Exactly my thoughts. But it all changed when i just put the tailscale proxy on kindle and allowed claude to ssh into it. Now i can just configure it remotely and never really need to do anything else except reading on kindle itself.

Why does Tailscale need to be used for Claude? Can’t you just ssh into it locally?

Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by wolvoleo »

eddythompson80 wrote: post #31
benterris wrote: post #15

KOReader (mentioned in the article, an alternative OSS interface you can install on most ereaders) is really a marvellous piece of software. I was not sure about setting it up at first, fearing it would drain battery out of my Kobo and whatnot, but I never had any issue with it. The amount of stuff you can customize to your liking has no limit and I feel I have reached the endgame of reading comfort. If you own an er…

I don’t know man. Maybe it’s a great reader for those who really need to customize everything. However, I found it very hard to use. I can never find settings where I’d expect them to be. Is font or margins or hyphenation under the Gear symbol or the Document symbol or the Wrench symbol or the long-press book settings? Is it then under Typography, Display, Style, Text or Miscellaneous? I had it on my ereader to check…

Agreed. KOReader is great in terms of capability but it is really let down by poor UI. I got used to it but it's not great
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