Was going to get my partner a kindle and jailbreak it, but it now seems that the jailbreak methods are being patched out. I hacked my mums way back in the day, and I’m still confident I could manage, but then they might patch it again or my partner might auto-update it or something and then it’ll be back to square one.

I don’t want to be a fumbling nerd doing the equivalent of 17 torrents that don’t work when his girlfriend just wants to use Netflix.

Just looking for one that’s a good e-reader that I can also easily jailbreak (or even just send files to with Calibre), once and forever.

Anyone got pointers?

Thanks.

  • towhee [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Spouse has a kobo which they like for ease of use reasons. It isn’t jailbroken but that does not seem to matter, they get epubs on it just fine.

    Personally I like large-format e-readers so if I were to buy a new one I would get a remarkable. Another alternative is the PineNote but that is well into 17 torrents territory.

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      The first batch of the PineNote will be great to write software for, but not great to write notes on. Wait for a later batch with better preinstalled software if you just want to use the device as an e-reader, e-note, or your everyday computing device.

      No kidding lol

      • towhee [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        Well now Pine64 has done a second run of them and there are two possible images to choose from, Debian and Arch. However neither are particularly stable and easy to use. That being said, if you want a linux e-ink tablet you’ll get a linux e-ink tablet - with all that entails. Personally I love mine and would consider buying another if it dies, although the remarkable is very tempting.