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Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 25 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Got the email from Amazon and jailbreaked my kindle that same day. Koreader is pretty awesome!

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Any good guide you can recommend? Thought of going the very same thing, but had not much time and energy recently.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 11 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I thought the official install guide was just fine when I installed Koreader on my Kobo. I assume their official guide for Kindle is just as useful: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kindle-devices

[–] Billygoat@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The guide is one of the best I’ve seen for this type of project. It does this easy presentation way of showing the instructions to do the jailbreak. I ran it on one of my older candles a few weeks ago just to try it out and didn’t have any issues.

It’s too bad I can’t jailbreak my current Kindle. I’ve gotten used to having the warmer backlight in the slightly larger screen.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 2 points 5 hours ago

The guide is one of the best I’ve seen for this type of project.

I would have to award that to GrapheneOS. Being a web-based installer, GrapheneOS is able to add buttons that directly perform the major actions right in the guide itself. At each step, instead of having a link or something and saying "go here and do this", it simply provides you with a button that actually performs that step's action right then and there. It is incredibly straightforward.

https://grapheneos.org/install/web