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Best E-Reader for pirating now that Kindle is difficult? (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 days ago by MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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Was going to get my partner a kindle and jailbreak it, but it now seems that the jailbreak methods are being patched out. I hacked my mums way back in the day, and I'm still confident I could manage, but then they might patch it again or my partner might auto-update it or something and then it'll be back to square one.

I don't want to be a fumbling nerd doing the equivalent of 17 torrents that don't work when his girlfriend just wants to use Netflix.

Just looking for one that's a good e-reader that I can also easily jailbreak (or even just send files to with Calibre), once and forever.

Anyone got pointers?

Thanks.

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[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've got a kobo and it takes epubs on it fine, no tinkering needed. It more comes down to the quality of the ebooks you download, and the only benefit you loose is you can't read ebooks on your phone and pick them up in the same place.

Apparently you can jailbreak a kindle and install KOReader pretty easily but it sounds like you don't want to bother with that

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

btw you should look into https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/try/ for converting your epubs into kepubs. they work better with kobo os!

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 1 points 6 days ago

This is really cool. I might give this a download soon and convert some things I've downloaded

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

Yes I see there's ways around new kindle restrictions, it's just that from what I can see unless you're careful you end up having to re jail break it every month.