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Originally Posted by richstant
However I seem to remember once before that I bought a kindle, and the ability to sideload from calibre was crippled - particularly with regards to organising things in collections.
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Sideloading isn't "crippled" you can add books just fine, but Calibre doesn't have a way to support the auto creation of collections on Kindle devices.
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I also seem to remember that certain firmwares were a lot more limited as to what you could do.
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Kindle firmware is more limited in that you don't have the options Kobo's have for adjusting margins & line spacing (Kindle's have only a few settings for each) and also don't have the same font handling options.
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However reading around the forums, it looks like that can be solved by jailbreaking & using collections manager, and that can be done irrespective of firmware version?
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Looking at the Kindle Collection Manager thread it appears to have some issues in newer firmware and according to the thread only works on some models...
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=186305
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So can I just check - as regards ease of sideloading & organising in calibre, are there any limitations of going to the kindle PW?
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Sideloading, no. Organising, see the thread linked above.
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If I jailbreak to make sideloading easier, can I still buy & load things from the kindle store?
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Jailbreaking won't make sideloading (loading via USB) and easier and yes a jailbroken device can still load books from the Kindle store.