Yes I will jailbreak it to get KUAL and KOreader. Thanks kovid and open source.

  • dajoho@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    I believe this is about Amazon discontinuing support for pre-2013 Kindles and jailbreaking them to extend their life and escape the Amazon walled garden. KUAL is an app launcher and KOReader is an alternate ebook reader.

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      3 hours ago

      I’m fairly certain a big reason behind Amazon doing this is that older kindles make it trivial to pirate kindle unlimited books. Check out 20, move them off the reader into calibre, decrypt, return the books, get 20 more, etc.

      (And before anyone says that the drm removal doesn’t work on kindle unlimited books, that check is two lines of python to fix.)