• BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Just jail breaking my kindle and installing Koreader on it was enough for me. Now I can directly download books from my calibre server on my Kindle

    • squid_slime@lemm.eeOP
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      3 months ago

      I was pretty content with that too but then with one of the updates I had Amazon asking for registration and network connection every time I powered on. That and defaulting to store screen instead of my library. When I first got the pw3 this wasn’t an issue.

      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        In the jail break there were instructions for steps to prevent kindle updates from ruining your setup, I’d say look into that. I’ll be disabling software updates entirely, a shitty company like Amazon will keep making things worse. If I knew better I’d have never purchased a Kindle in the first place

  • BK85@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    For a kobo you can replace the kindle store with your own calibre library so you can download and read any book you have stored in calibre.

  • whaleross@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I looked up long time ago about rooting my paperwhite gen 10 but couldn’t find anything. Care to share if you have some links?

    • gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
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      3 months ago

      The 10th generation Paperwhite is known as the Paperwhite 4 (PW4). I have one and I jailbroke it many years ago. I’ve even accidentally uninstalled the jailbreak and was able to re-jailbreak it.

      Read all of this very carefully. Make sure that your firmware version is 5.14.2 or earlier.

      Then read (again, carefully) about this jailbreak method and follow the installation instructions.

        • gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
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          2 months ago

          I don’t know since I’m not on that version. You can take a look around the MobileRead forums in the Development section and see if you can find information on that. It also depends on which device you have.

          I’m not involved with developing the jailbreaks so I can’t really give you more info than that. There’s also some jailbreak info outside of MobileRead too.