The Benefits of JailBreaking Your Kindle:
- Customize your lock screen to the recently opened book cover, selected image, or randomized from a collection of images. Amazon added something similar recently but it took them 13 years for something so basic.
- KOReader for reading epub and pdf. Also, you get access to the filesystem so you can organize your books however you want.
- Customizable collections (similar to folders) with Calibre
- Run Python so you can run w/e you want. Some ideas...
- Sideload books via WiFi
- Sync notes automatically
The main idea of Jailbreaking is that you own your device and you can do whatever you want with it. However, I switched from a Jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite to an Android e-ink reader about a year ago and I'm never looking back.
Regardless, I'm happy to see this on Hacker News!
- Customize your lock screen to the recently opened book cover, selected image, or randomized from a collection of images. Amazon added something similar recently but it took them 13 years for something so basic.
- KOReader for reading epub and pdf. Also, you get access to the filesystem so you can organize your books however you want.
- Customizable collections (similar to folders) with Calibre
- Run Python so you can run w/e you want. Some ideas...
The main idea of Jailbreaking is that you own your device and you can do whatever you want with it. However, I switched from a Jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite to an Android e-ink reader about a year ago and I'm never looking back.Regardless, I'm happy to see this on Hacker News!