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•3 days ago

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

    • @scarilogEnglish
      3•3 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•3 days ago

        How would the reading experience improve for regular ebooks?