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submitted 1 week ago by Feeee23@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world

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Don't throw away your Kindle, Jailbreak it and take back ownership. Make your Kindle even better with KoReader and other apps. If you wanna see whats possible i recomment this Yt video. If you wanna get started here are all instructions: https://kindlemodding.org/ Don't let it scare you it seems complicated but its just a lot of (easy) steps. So definitely possible in <2h.

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[-] ashenone@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago

Piracy + Calibre

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

Of you can just put your device in airplane mode .. lmao y'all like drowning in glasses of water.

[-] HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I decided to give it a shot not too long ago. Its a bit of give and take. Pros and cons.

With KOreader you get more options for customizing layouts and fonts and spacing. You can also just put books in different folders which is great for organizing. Like I have a folder for my horror, fantasy, gen lit, classics. While I made sure to organjze my stuff on Caliber, theres not as many options on Kindle out the box, so I cant just look through books based on that, which is a feature I always wished they would have added. It also read more formats. Epub is seen as the universal one for books, but it also does PDF, DjVu, FB2, PDB, TXT, ZIP, CBT, CBZ, FB2, RTF, HTML, CHM, and DOC.

But also, yeah. My Kindle is usually on airplane mode anyways because wifi drains the battery, and I just pulled things over with the computer anyways. The UI while scrolling through books also looks so much nicer IMO. And as long as youre not doing hundreds of books at a time, its not that hard to set up collections. And while the Kindle doesnt have quite as many in depth options for fonts and shit, the specific file format for the specific UI for the specific devices also meant I never had issues with getting it to look nice.

So over all, if you like tinkering with stuff, its cool. But I do agree that it's not really needed. You can still download books from other sources and then just transfer them over.

[-] Feeee23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah or lay it in a box and don't use it...

[-] accideath@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Don’t need network connection on my kindle to use calibre.

[-] transscribe7891@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

I was able to just install F-droid and from there get Obtainium to import my usual apps, including Librera which I prefer over KoReader. No jailbreak necessary.

However... I do eventually wanna jailbreak it and get Amazon's presence off there entirely if I can. Thanks for the references, for when I get there.

Just letting the more non-techy people know that you can get FOSS apps like KoReader without having to go all the way, so to speak.

[-] Feeee23@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Have you instructions?

[-] Biscuit@ani.social 5 points 1 week ago

I'm guessing Kindle Fire, an Android tablet.

I'd love to put Android apps on my Paperwhite tho.

[-] transscribe7891@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Oh, yeah, it is a Kindle Fire. I never got into e-ink.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

is that super racist cartoon the best image to use for right to repair?

[-] jonathan@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago

Happy to hear you out and I didn't downvote, but I'm not sure how it's racist. The original cartoon doesn't seem racist (though Bugs Bunny has plenty of that in other cartoons) and I'm not sure how this frame could be taken that way otherwise.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Whoever it was, ive blocked them as either a troll or a complete dumbass. So take that for what it's worth.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Looking at his other reply…. You’re right on both counts hahaha

[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for sharing that you'd blocked them, I've now done the same.

[-] Saucepain@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I don't understand what the image is trying to convey anyway (though agree with the premise of Amazon-fucking).

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Amazon still wants to retain a sense of ownership of their Kindle devices, despite it being the user who one who bought and owns it.

It's a similar idea (albeit corrupt) idea to communism, where you don't own anything, as everyone owns it. (there's a USSR emblem in the corner, signifying the meme has an oppressive communistic feel about the subject)