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Are new kindles locked to amazon or something? i have an 11th gen i got used at one point, i havent paid for any books. Only downside is it only reads MOBI files but I use Calibre to convert them when i need to.
you can do pretty much anything with a jailbroken kindle. the process is a little annoying in that when you buy one you need to take steps to prevent it from auto updating. this means filling up storage to leave just enough megabytes to install the jailbreak but not enough for the full update file to auto download when you connect to wifi. you may also have to register the kindle to either a real or fake amazon account you make. afaik its still the cheapest ereader. you can buy the one with ads and disable them
But do you even need to jailbreak them or can you still just read .mobi files on the newer models?
You don't have to, but I really like KOReader over the stock reader. Also to remove ads. Plus I don't have to convert file formats
interesting, i never even looked into jailbreaking it since i just convert the mobi files. but jailbreaking sounds like kind of a hassle. i think i bought the ad free one, which i just got on ebay.