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What I'm looking for is experiences with jailbroken Kindles. Why did you want to jailbreak? Is it only for the screensavers? And now that you've jailbroken your Kindle is it really what you'd hoped for?
* I did it to get automatic collections support via Calibre (Kindle Collections + LibrarianSync). Then discovered KOReader (alternate reading software with support for EPUB and CBZ comic books) and the jailbreak ended up much more useful than intended. Apart from being able to read comics without having to convert them with KCC, my Paperwhites now have folder hierarchy support, Dropbox support, OPDS support and fine-tuned tap zones to name a few. With KOReader, it even syncs last read position with my Kobo ereaders.
And is it easy to maintain the jailbreak? Or do you regret is because it's a lot of hassle?
* No hassle at all. It's a simple toggle/menu option on KUAL to disable automatic updates on the Kindle and after that, no worries even if I keep the Kindles always on wifi.
I just want to know if it's really worth it, and if people regret jailbreaking their device because it's not what they'd hoped. Or it's too difficult to maintain the jailbreak. Or if they kind of really wanted the new update (because of features?), but can't because it's now jailbroken.
* I'm still on 5.10.1.3 both for keeping the jailbreak and so KFX books downloaded directly to the Kindle use Alf-friendly DRM.
Even without the benefits of jailbreak, the DRM issue alone trumps any features Amazon could provide via firmware update. I actually bought extra PW4s when they went on sale back when Amazon was still shipping 5.10.1.3 or lower so that I have backup devices.
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