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kioleanutoday at 6:58 AM2 repliesview on HN

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


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okeuro49today at 7:25 AM

> Same exact device, different software depending on when it was bought.

Can't you update it to the latest firmware?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

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criddelltoday at 12:30 PM

Which DRM does it support? Can you buy Amazon books and read them? If so, does the DRM plugin come from Amazon?

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