For those who have an Amazon Kindle, it’s currently possible to jailbreak almost all Kindle models, thanks to a new jailbreaking tool released earlier this year. That includes the latest generation devices, as long as they haven’t been updated to the latest firmware that was released last month.
Jailbreaking basically lets you de-Amazon your Kindle. You can replace the default user interface and reader app with KOReader, which is more feature rich. This video shows some of the features that KOReader has and some other things you can do with jailbroken Kindle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtk7ERwlIAk
Oh great, thanks for that! I’ve been agonising over the fact of having a kindle laying around my table, but now I can feel better by screwing over Amazon.
Question, if I jailbreak, what happens to the Amazon books I already bought? Will they still be there? Because sadly some books can only be found on amazon because they are too niche and I can’t afford to lose them.
It shouldn’t delete anything. But KOReader doesn’t support Amazon’s file formats, or DRM, so you either need to convert them, or use the normal UI to read them. Removing DRM is pretty easy, although illegal in most countries, and converting is also easy with Calibre. This guide might help with that: https://lemm.ee/post/58718431.
For those who have an Amazon Kindle, it’s currently possible to jailbreak almost all Kindle models, thanks to a new jailbreaking tool released earlier this year. That includes the latest generation devices, as long as they haven’t been updated to the latest firmware that was released last month.
https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/getting-started
What do you do with it after jailbreaking?
Jailbreaking basically lets you de-Amazon your Kindle. You can replace the default user interface and reader app with KOReader, which is more feature rich. This video shows some of the features that KOReader has and some other things you can do with jailbroken Kindle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtk7ERwlIAk
Oh great, thanks for that! I’ve been agonising over the fact of having a kindle laying around my table, but now I can feel better by screwing over Amazon.
Question, if I jailbreak, what happens to the Amazon books I already bought? Will they still be there? Because sadly some books can only be found on amazon because they are too niche and I can’t afford to lose them.
It shouldn’t delete anything. But KOReader doesn’t support Amazon’s file formats, or DRM, so you either need to convert them, or use the normal UI to read them. Removing DRM is pretty easy, although illegal in most countries, and converting is also easy with Calibre. This guide might help with that: https://lemm.ee/post/58718431.
And read the jailbreaking FAQ: https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/jailbreak-faq.html
Thank you!!