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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Quick guess, the PW4 32GB LTE models are the least popular and has the highest likelihood of coming from older stock. It probably still ships with older, jailbreakable firmware and I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case even a year or two from now. Granted, quite pricey. Buying from authorized retailers instead of Amazon direct would probably get you older stock, too. Iirc, the PW4 I got from Target Cyber Monday shipped with 5.10.0.1 when even my pre-order from Amazon from weeks earlier came with 5.10.0.2.
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That is probably a good guess. My 32GB wifi PW4 came from Amazon and with 5.10.0.2--I'm pretty sure on that but going from memory, it definitely started with 5.10.0. I upgraded to 5.10.3 and, reading around here on the site, I assume that means I could not jailbreak now even if I wanted to.
KOReader is cool, but it has limitations too, especially in the area of note-taking (at least the Kobo version does), and that's a non-starter for me as my primary reading app. Knowing that, and seeing the hassle of maintaining jailbreaks, and the limited other functionality you get, I'm still not convinced for me it'd be worth it, even if I could jailbreak the PW4. I'm one of those crazy users that actually LIKES the Kindle software, although there's a few things I want them to add or change.