Yes I will jailbreak it to get KUAL and KOreader. Thanks kovid and open source.
I think i have that model. Fantastic ebook reader if so.
It really is. I baught a second one a few years after they stopped making them. So I’ve got a grey one and a black one. I love i can hold them like a book and the svreen doesn’t move. Plus no backlight means it’s easy on yhe eyes.
No backlight? Can’t use it in the dark
There are snap-on small lights that would illuminate the Kindle screen, rather than glow in your eyes. People used to read books too without a backlight through various ways.
Yeah but thats additional item you need to have with you.
Not sure what you mean by no backlight is easy for the eyes. Is it really bad?
EDIT: not you, but the person i replied to
True, I have 3 book lights scrambled at different rooms in my home, and still managed to forget all of them for a recent trip.
But the only more modern reader I’ve used (Onyx boox, white backlight) did its job at night, but still felt a bit straining for my eyes. Maybe it gets better with a yellow-ish or orange backlight, these feel better for me on the clip-on lights, but I haven’t tried one for backlight.
Ill be honest i just read in the light. Or use a small 50c book light. Its a decade old ebook reader. It works and still lasts about a week with a very old battery.
So which book of the Wandering Inn is that from?
Lol i have no idea. I have all the ebooks but this is quite a bit further than the last book that came out. I like tge books more because they are edited and i believe pirate aba deserves $$.
I downloaded the web serial a bit ago sp this is based on that. On a tangent, this is the only ebook reader that will load the wandering inn in completion. Over 100mb of pure txt. As an ebook it was 4.6 GB big. I started reading this series a coupke of years ago and om just now nraeing the 50% mark. God its massive. Its my soap opera of writing haha.
should be book 6
I installed Koreader on my Kindle Paperwhite 3 a couple months ago, and it has made me use my device so much more now. There’s only 3GB of storage to play with, so it’s not like I can carry my manga and comic libraries with me, but it’s breathed new life into my epub collection. Honestly, most useful upgrade I’ve made in a long time.
Yeah, jailbreak and KOreader actually makes the device usable. I have one of the older ones so the screen is way too small for manga anyway, but at least i can use whatever the font I want and I can even change the default screensavers which is a nice addition.
If you happen to read manga on your phone, you may be surprised how capable your old ereader might actually be.
I actually read manga on my old Nexus 7 since my phone’s screen is not big enough. I tried some cbz mangas on the Kindle before but because of not every page is single, it was painfully slow to zoom and navigate. I would love the read them on Kindle if I can find mangas that don’t need to be zoomed though.
Can I ask what does it do? I’ve had a kindle oasis for years now and haven’t found anything to complain about. I already have a calibre script for things like margin, font, line spacing and css rules.
It’s open source software that lets you read epubs and cbz files natively without conversions, bypass Amazon’s “Send to Kindle” feature, and came at a time when Amazon was removing books from people’s devices. Koreader also has Calibre plugin support to transfer books that way as well (though this isn’t something I haven’t set up just yet).
Overall it provides a bit more granular control over your devices if you like to tinker, and provides an extended lifeline for devices Amazon may have stopped supporting.
This could be interesting indeed, though in my case as I only really download epubs that are autoconverted to azw3 with my custom parameters and are loaded via the same usb I use to charge it anyway, I’m not sure I’d have much to gain here.
What do you mean stop supporting? Do they just stop providing updates? Do updates really matter on an ereader?
Support is kind of topical at the moment if you’re deep into the Kindle Store. Honestly, it’s bullshit to get you to buy a new device.
Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets from 2012 or before will no longer have access to the Kindle Store to buy, borrow, or download new books or content.
Which models are losing support?
- Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation (2012)
- Kindle 5 (2012)
- Kindle Touch (2011)
- Kindle 4 (2011)
- Kindle Keyboard (2010)
- Kindle DX and DX Graphite (2009 and 2010)
- Kindle 1st Generation (2007)
- Kindle Fire HD 8.9 (2012)
- Kindle Fire HD 7 (2012)
- Kindle Fire 2nd Gen (2012)
- Kindle Fire 1st Gen (2011)
ETA Kindle Fire tablet info
Ahhh it’s the store, yeah if I used it I agree I think I’d be mad.
Makes sense for them though, it’s extra work to support old formats and old quirks each device might have. There’s got to be an alternative, but I’m not sure what it would be.
Kovid Goyal was extremely unhappy about python2 being sunsetted. He was pondering maintaining it himself at one point because it required such a re-write porting to python3.
Absolute Chad
I love this, but for me the biggest issue is that I don’t own anything on kindle. I wish there was a way to easily buy and own ebooks like they’re was with songs and bandcamp
Not a lawyer, but if you’ve already paid for something (i.e. “bought” an eBook on Amazon), then you’ve done your part to ensure the creator eats tonight. Pirating a digital copy of it that you can read/move/engage with wherever you want is no longer even slightly morally questionable at that point.
i’m pretty sure it’s explictly legal, lol
I would, but for the most part, most of the things I read don’t seem to show up on torrent lists
Look in Anna’s archives. It has everything.
I’m guessing you’re looking on public trackers. Private ones like MAM, should have 90% of what you’re looking for. Out of curiosity, mind posting few books you haven’t been able to find?
My non exhaustive list
- China’s Back Story by Lee Moore
- The Eagle and the Lion by Adrian Goldsworthy
- Patriarchy Inc. by Cordelia Fine
And
- A Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey
I bought an old single digit version of a kindle and just use Calibre. It’s pretty great.
Have that one too. It does the job and is easy to read on. They go for cheap now second hand and work well with calibre
I kinda want to get another one but im waiting on the open source https://diptyx.dev/
