More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

KOReader (mentioned in the article, an alternative OSS interface you can install on most ereaders) is really a marvellous piece of software. I was not sure about setting it up at first, fearing it would drain battery out of my Kobo and whatnot, but I never had any issue with it. The amount of stuff you can customize to your liking has no limit and I feel I have reached the endgame of reading comfort. If you own an ereader, I highly recommend installing it. I'm happy and grateful people spend time developing and maintaining it without being paid!

I’ve just jailbroken my Kindle this week. I have a Paperwhite 7th Generation and my biggest problem was that I didn’t have dark mode on it. Turns out the only reason that is is because Amazon didn’t want me to have it. Maybe maybe I’ll buy a new device. KOReader has no problem with dark mode and is much faster and snappier than the Kindle software.

What’s funnier is that both my son and my wife have the Paperwhite 10th generation, but only my wife’s device has dark mode. Same exact device, different software depending on when it was bought.

The second major reason for Jailbreaking is that KOReader can do DRM through a plugin so I was finally able to loan out ebooks from my library. No need for a new device, the 10 year old one works extremely well with the right software

Ok, this one crosses the bar - time to jailbreak my Kindle. On days when I don't vibe-code (or code less), I get this withdrawal-like feeling (lack of dopamine?), and I tend to spend too much time watching dumb X posts or striving for anything that ticks my nerves. Actually, I could use this time to catch up on my RSS queue.

Between KOReader, SSH, and Tailscale, something completely wrecked the battery life of my Kindle Oasis, and introduced frequent reboots/crashes. That was a previous implementation, maybe things have improved.

Even if your kindle is on older firmware that doesn’t have some of the kernel extensions needed by Tailscale to create the .. TUN ? Type network interface, you can still kind of get it working in the user space mode with .. -tun -userspace-networking

And then I see my koreader calibre is pointing at localhost:8081.. so maybe there was a proxy?

It’s been a while since I set it up. But it’s possible

You will probably also want to add `--no-logs-no-support` (don't mind the FUD-y argument name) to the scripted invocation of `tailscaled` here: https://github.com/victoria-riley-barnett/koreader-tailscale...

Otherwise Tailscale (the company) will be collecting your behavioral metadata every time you use your Kindle (what other hosts it connects to, on what ports, connection open and close timestamps, etc): https://tailscale.com/docs/features/logging#opt-out-of-clien...

Yes obviously the actual connection contents are encrypted, but ”just metadata” tells a whole heck of a lot about you: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...

Kind of a hijack comment, but since RSS was mentioned - Do you guys have some recommendations for ereader friendly feeds? Content like r/longreads is what comes to mind.

Would be great to see some way to run WireGuard on kindle or kobo devices

Bought a second hand kindle and love it after near 10 years of my first kindle battery bloated

Still not want to jailbreak it because experience is good and I just share some books to the phone app and it get synced to the kindle device

Love tailscale though, perhaps Need buy some full open source ebook reader with tailscale installed

It would be useful to compare Imiron with existing formal methods tools so developers can quickly see where it fits.

I suspect my jailbroken Kindles will soon get a brand new, in-house developed bare-metal OS of my own design 100%, as it is now possible to do it, which was nearly impossible few years ago...

That is pretty cool! Anyonehad success with this kn a Tolino reader? I'll give it a try too

ah, to live in a country where the government doesn't block wireguard packets

I own a Boox and I've thought about putting it on my tailnet... I love the device, but unfortunately, I trust it about as far as I trust the Chinese government, which means no connections to my accounts or networks, ever. It's a shame.

I made this for ESP32 in Rust giving full Tailscale experience with NAT-traversal https://github.com/punnerud/mpe-tunnel

Any suggestions for an ancient Chromebook?

Have one that is managed by a school from 10 years ago and they failed to release the device.

I am a fan of alpine Linux which i think may work well on an old Chromebook.

Any suggestions/links welcome

i use on kindle https://github.com/jwilk-archive/pdf2djvu if i want to read a scanned pdf with images, because it run faster.

i use https://github.com/jwilk-archive/pdf2djvu to read scanned pdf with images on kindle and koreader. it run faster

Adding a few real-world setups, like Calibre, Nextcloud, or Home Assistant, would help readers understand the practical benefits.

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