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Post #2115888

2026-05-06 18:15 UTC

@billgoats Why would you jailbreak a kindle? I can load mobi books to it without jail breaking?

Replies (5)

  • @dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-05-06 18:35

    @nickapos @billgoats Because Amazon is bricking them otherwise.

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  • @nickapos @billgoats Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

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  • @retrosponge@kind.social 2026-05-06 19:38

    @nickapos @billgoats Well for starters there's the fact that all other e-book devices support e-pub just fine so it's restricted in that regard. There's also the fact that once you've jailbroken it you can use a program called KO Reader as your e-book reader and it is so far beyond what is included with the Kindle I could not go back.

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  • @billgoats@bitbang.social 2026-05-06 20:47

    @nickapos If your device already does everything you need it to, then even better 💯

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  • @MorningSong@weirder.earth 2026-05-06 22:14

    @nickapos @billgoats Back when I used my Kindle 3 I mainly used the jailbreak for custom fonts and a hack to set the cover of your current book as the screensaver image.

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