On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued “Download and Transfer via USB” feature to archive your Kindle library.

    • @accideathEnglish
      9•4 days ago

      What can I do with a jailbroken kindle that makes it worth doing instead of just using calibre?

      • @ocassionallyaduckEnglish
        18•4 days ago

        Better Calibre integration.

        Custom shelves and book collections on Kindle.

        • @ChogChogEnglish
          5•4 days ago

          You literally just said the two things I wished Kindle allowed me to do natively.

          I hate the fact my Kindle store books will bundle by series, but my non-kindle books will not.

          • @ocassionallyaduckEnglish
            3•4 days ago

            Yea, I had like a 2nd or 3rd gen paperwhite and rooted it for this reason, but my partner’s wasn’t hackable until this moment. So now she can have it too.

        • @accideathEnglish
          1•4 days ago

          Ok, the latter might actually be worth it. I’ll have to look into that.

      • @scarilogEnglish
        3•4 days ago

        I switched from the default reader to koreader, and now I have dark mode (mine is probably about 8 years old and did not originally have this feature). Koreader has so many features and qol improvements compared to the default Kindle experience.

        • @accideathEnglish
          1•4 days ago

          How would the reading experience improve for regular ebooks?