Quote:
Originally Posted by LostOnTheLine
Spoiler:
There are many different reasons people want to Jailbreak the Kindle, most are, IMO, silly, like wanting to watch YouTube on it... (Yes, I've heard that more than a few times) Or People wanting to load ePubs directly (It's very easy to convert ePubs to KFX & that alone prevents some of the problems that poorly formatted ePubs can have)
But some of them are legitimate, some more necessary, others just personal preference.
For example I gave a friend an old Paperwhite 1 that I jailbroke to have the current book cover as the screensaver. To me that was a worthwhile reason.
When I gave it to her I put custom pictures that she could have as the "Default" screensaver which were things she liked instead of stupid pencils.
When I got my Paperwhite 3 I didn't see a need to jailbreak it since it already had the ability to set the book cover as the screensaver. Much to my regret this update made me want to Jailbreak it, but also prevented me from doing so. So I'm now in Airplane mode all the time still waiting for it to be Jailbroken so I can revert to, I believe 5.14.2 before the stupid update that took away things, & made the Kindle less pleasant to use.
Namely the new Home screen.
But that wouldn't be so bad since you can just switch to Library right?
Except they took away the ability to have Collections keep things off of the main Library page.
When you have kids books that you don't want clogging the screen or adult books you don't want to be visible or you read a lot of books & want to keep a few easier to find or you reread a couple books & want them to be visible without having to turn off the "Hide Read Books" option to un-mark-as-read them you used to be able to put them in a Collection & that Collection would be at the top of the library & you could choose to not have those things in the collection show in the library otherwise if you wished. & they would always stay at the top of the library.
Now being able to set it to stay at the top or not would have been nice, but the new ones don't have that option, Even if you read a book in the collection it doesn't bring it back to the top, it just exists where it's "Last Read" state is the day it was created & the items in them are all on the regular library too & if they are Read they disappear from the collection too.
So if you want to do ANY of things people like to do with Collections... You can't... That is enough of a reason to Jailbreak.
IMO, it's enough to make me consider doing the Jailbreak that requires you to open the device & jumper pins but, as of yet, not enough for me to actually do it.
|
If I wanted something only jailbreaking could give me, I'd just buy another brand. I get that some people jailbreak their Kindles for fun and to show they can do it; but I don't understand people who need something not available without jailbreaking and still buy a non-jailbreakable Kindle. Why not buy something else then? There are a lot of eink readers out there these days, it's not just 1-2 brands.