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Originally Posted by maximus83
This is a great post and a summary of the problems of trying to use a Kindle device to organize your book collection. I couldn't agree more. I think Kindles are awesome as reading devices......and that's about it. They do that one thing very well. I have no problem jailbreaking stuff when it makes sense and gives me some added value for the hassle; I've done it with Android tablets and phones. I just don't see the value of jailbreaking a Kindle primarily just to do a clunky on-device organizing scheme that will not transfer elsewhere. All the other things people say they jailbreak a Kindle for (like fonts, sending content from Pocket, etc.), I can already do without jailbreak, or the things that I can't do (like reading statistics) are trivial and I don't care about.
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I don't jailbreak to organize my entire ebook collection. I do that on Calibre. I jailbreak so I can at least do a one-way transfer of tags=>collections
from Calibre
to Kindle so I have at least
*some* semblance of order on the device.
Also, jailbreaking gives me KOReader which brings with it a ton of benefits—highly customizable tap zones (tap almost anywhere goes forward, swipe for back), EPUB and CBZ support, Dropbox support, OPDS support, etc.
I do almost all my reading on KOReader now. Only thing I prefer the native Kindle reader for is full text search (ebook and library-wide).