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All kindles can now be jailbroken, thanks to new jailbreak method. (kindlemodding.org)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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WinterBreak is a jailbreak which was released on New Year’s Day 2025 by HackerDude

It is based on Mesquito

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I have kept à disconnected kindle for a few years after I completely stopped using amazon for anything - today I wouldn't even be seen with one as carrying one is a bit like advertising for the company

These are the best ereaders period, my kobo Clara 2e is sluggish, night mode is shit, USB connection to Calibre is "when I want, if I want"... But I'm not a billboard for that business. Too bad, really good devices, and hurray for all the people who will enjoy them away from amazon

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    You find Clara sluggish with KOreader?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Just by itself ; I checked KOReader on my phone & wasn't convinced enough to install it on my reader which, beside being that, just works with Calibre from several linux machines (and I don't mind reading PDFs on my phone, it's always user manuals and I need fluid zoom + screenshots for diagrams and stuff like that).

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Calibre is baked into koreader but go off. I was asking about sluggishness.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    It's my only ereader after owning a paperwhite for years. Yeah, it's inferior. It sometimes doesn't register a several good, honest tap or swipes to turn pages ; it's having hard time making a difference between a swipe to change illumination and one to highlight text ; and sometimes you see some shadow text from other pages on your current page

    But kobo do sell some books without DRM, you can sideload without even using calibre, and, most importantly, it's not an amazon product

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I own a Clara HD. I don't find it sluggish (quite snappy unless it's trying to render badly formed PDFs, there is no ghosting after 3 years of regular use and my inputs are never wrong, but I have been using Koreader on it for all but month 1. It sounds like your screen is polling too slow if you're getting misinputs, or something else similar. Not an amazon product and doesn't give me ads either.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Seems I gotta try KOReader then, thanks!

    Mine is a 2E, the only less-sluggish thing I found I could do was to limit the number of books on it, which seems ridiculous because I have zero PDFs, only epubs & barely using 2.3GB out of 16, and what does it have to do with page turns anyway ?

    Ah, it'll remind me of the times I "hacked" my kindle just to display the cover of The Hitchhiker Guide To The Galaxy :)

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