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Originally Posted by Sirtel
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?
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I mean I had no intention of Jailbreaking my Paperwhite 3 but I easily could have when I bought it. Amazon made it less usable. The only way I can get it back to the way that was nice is to jailbreak it. Until that happened I was happy with my non-jailbroken Kindle.
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
There are a lot of eink readers out there these days, it's not just 1-2 brands.
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I mean it really is 2 brands, ell technically 3-5
Kindle, Nook, Kobo
Nook needs to be jailbroken too, & it is just worse all around. So it's really Kindle & Kobo...
If we want to get technical There's BOOX & PocketBook but Those are rare, more expensive, less supported, & not exactly eBooks as they generally are more eInk tablets. PocketBook runs Linux, so you can do a lot with it, but it also doesn't look to be as user friendly. BOOX you have to jailbreak as well
A major thing there is price...
You can get a Kindle for a lot cheaper than an equally speced Kobo. & it's easy to find a refurbished or used Kindle, not so with anything else
But also
we like the Kindle, In my case at least, but we should have the right to not have them take away the things that they gave us, we used, we liked, then they took away. It's like Twitter now that Musk own it, it didn't add features, it just took away a bunch of stuff you could already do & made it so you have to pay if you want to do it. That's a service, so there's not much we can do about it, but this is something we bought. I liked how it worked
when I bought it, then, years later, they took away some of it & shoved more ads in my face even though I paid extra for the ad-free version.