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.

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Pocketbook is just a tiny Linux distro. So is ReMarkable if you can find an old one for a good price (I got one for $130 and it’s great for reading PDFs). My pocketbook has a good base UI, but you can sideload anything.

    There are Git setups for ReMarkable that let you put everything in a git repo so you can have a history of your books and reading/note states. Great for having detailed backups.