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.
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Assuming you have the means to set up a server, it’s very easy and so convenient once it’s set up
You don’t even really need to set up a server, I run calibre on my pc and just copy stuff over with a usb cable every now and again.
Calibre is really excellent software by the way. Kudos to the devs for it.
Yeah you don’t have to, and I probably wouldn’t bother setting up a home server just for this job, but if you install calibre web behind a reverse proxy then you can add books to it from anywhere, on any device, and your Kobo will periodically update without you lifting a finger. If you have a home server anyway, it’s a no-brainer imo — such an easy ux once it’s up and running
Yeah makes sense if that’s your use case. The way I use it, when I got it I loaded about 12gb of books on there, and have put about 6 new books on it since.
It’s over 1000 books, that’s quite the backlog for me to be working on! If I changed nothing that would do me until the end of my life - so I’ll only bother connecting again if there is some new book I wish to read urgently, which does happen, but not regularly. So given this is a task I only do a few times a year it doesn’t make sense to host.
Fair enough — I have a far shorter backlog than that! But I do really appreciate being able to download and add a book whenever a recommendation here catches my fancy, for example