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Old 02-12-2018, 03:02 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Good luck with "rooting" a Kindle or Kobo eInk ereader. For one thing, rooting is generally used when referring to Android devices. For the Linux based Kindle eInk ereaders, the preferred term seems to be jailbreak. For Kobo's, rooting/jailbreaking is not necessary. As for slapping your preferred app on it? That's a very limited selection for either platform given that neither runs Android. I won't get into the issue that if you purchase a Kindle with firmware 5.9.2 or later you are out of luck with jailbreaking at this time though the jailbreak does seem to survive an update to 5.9.2/5.9.4 for most people.
Though I don't agree with most of mobama's points, if Kindle is Linux based, 'rooting' is the right term. You hear about rooting with Android, because Android is Linux based: What is rooting?

And I don't follow Kindle much, but can't you install Koreader on a rooted Kindle?
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