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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
Exactly what meeera said. Another vote to go with Kobo. Kindles are pretty much locked out of any customization at this point once they upgrade to the newest firmware, and even when you could jailbreak them on previous firmware, it was a LOT more complicated than doing tweaks on the Kobo or Sony readers. So for the Kindle, that means you can't load your own fonts and you're limited to the 6 installed on the reader, and none of them have the ability to darken or increase contrast (that's my biggest irritation about the Paperwhite).
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I am happy to say you are totally -- well, mostly -- wrong.
NiLuJe just updated the jailbreak, MKK and MR Package Installer hacks to function properly on the 5.6.1 firmware. And the jailbreak is known to survive the update. The PW2 is, in other words, fully hackable even on fw5.6.1
Although that does not help on the Voyage or KT2, since the jailbreak must still be carried out on fw<5.4.5, which for obvious reasons the KV and KT2 cannot be downgraded to...
However, we are hopeful that a new exploit will be discovered. All the infrastructure is there to handle 5.6.1, we just need some way of injecting it onto the KV and KT2 without using a serial cable.
Hey, once upon a time no one had discovered the rigged-name.bin exploit.
Another one will venture along, given time.
tl;dr -- if you buy a PW2, it will likely still come with fw<5.4.5 in which case assuming you jailbreak immediately you are golden.
