for those who have Kindle at home and don't want to use Amazon's Infrastructure I prepared this blog post which describes how to jailbreak your Kindle and install open-source software on it :)

After you are done you will:

have KOReader installed
be able to load epub books into the Kindle via email
create epub books from browser tabs

Post here: Kindle Jailbreak

I believe that if you already have Kindle laying around it could be beneficial to use it without Amazon software instead of buying Kobo/another alternatives. Or course - don't buy a brand new Kindle just to do the jailbreak, you can invest your money to a different company

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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Jailbroke my Kindle Oasis about a year ago. Pretty happy with KOReader. The UI is janky TBH, but once you know where everything is and get used to it, it's also quite powerful.

[–] Poolitzer@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thats interesting I immideatly fell in love with it and the UI.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For me, getting to know and like it took some time and I've unfortunately seen some people bounce off it immediately after using it for a few minutes. There are definitely some really nice aspects to it - like the reading statistics and the shortcuts along the screen edge. But in terms of UI/UX-Design, I'd personally consider it far from ideal. Like how when you press the bottom part of the screen, the bottom menu comes up - which makes sense - but when you press the top part of the screen, the top menu and the bottom menu come up simultaneously on top of each other and you have to close each of them separately. Or how there are like four separate options menus, located in different submenus. The home screen is a file explorer rather than a simple library of ebooks as you'd find it on most e-readers. It's all very "designed by programmers". It doesn't follow established design best-practices and wouldn't be intuitive to the average e-reader user.

[–] mtoboggan@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe give this a try.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

Looks nice, I will!