Thread: Why Jailbreak?
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Old 08-30-2022, 01:15 PM   #10
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There are few reasons for why I do it.

The number one reason for me is to have the cover of the book I'm now reading as the screen saver.
It's a sleep screen, not a screen saver, and you don't see it with a sleep cover. I did add this to the DXG and it makes it much slower to wake. Later firmwares do it. It was the only thing I kept of patches on the DXG as it has no sleep cover. Didn't see any point to other patches.


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I prefer collection management to calibre. Only possible with a jailbroken Kindle.
Yes. However does it have search by series possible? I can't see such a thing on any of my 4 different Kindles.


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I jailbroke my Kindle and installed SyncThing so that I could upload books to it simply by dragging them into a folder on my desktop or laptop.
Um, that works on Windows or Linux without a jailbreak, but drag and drop of more than a few items is perilous. I use Calibre, which works with all Kindles?

Or does that use WiFi? I never enable WiFi on my Kobos or Kindles, only on the Likebook Mars so as to use the library via Borrowbox, but they have updated something and it needs a new PIN.

But the better solution is a Kobo. I have 4 different Kindle models.

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