Three days post-j’break, I’m very pleased to report nothing but buttery-smooth KOreader goodness, and being dumbstruck at how exponentially the usefulness and worth to me of my eight-year-old PW3 has ballooned since Tuesday.
Background: I was so close (about a year ago) to dismissing KOreader as just another ereader app without even examining it, but the constant refrains of praise I was seeing prompted me to investigate... and boy, am I glad I did.
I started by installing KOreader on my various Android devices, phone/tablet. Like everyone else, I was of course daunted by the quantity of its settings.
It didn't take long to realise it was something special.
I just want to say: I flinch when I read KOreader user reviews describe the UI as 'clunky', the profound irony being the utterly elegant reading experience that that 'clunky' UI facilitates. (In fairness, I've actually only seen the word used by users whose reviews of KOreader are otherwise predominantly positive/glowing, so their usage of it can be forgiven. [Not, of course, that a person’s experience of something needs to always be unequivocally positive: We can like something and still constructively criticize it. Just saying]).
Of course, I know I’m preaching to the converted on this thread, and these remarks likely better belong somewhere like
here, for the benefit of prospective KOreader users / j’breakers etc, and I’ll likely place an edit of this post there too. It doesn't bear enough emphasising though: KOreader is an awesome cross-platform app/service, and I love each and every one of you involved in its development and maintenance for what it gifts us.
Anyway, back to my Paperwhite/KOreader ‘pilgrimage’:
Very impressed by KOreader, and thrilled at the idea of getting it on my PW3, I then investigated j’break options, but the only one (“WatchThis”, I believe) I could find at the time (August this year) required FW no higher than 5.14.2. To my disappointment I was/am on 5.16.2.1.1. Duly I promptly placed the device in Airplane mode.
I began planning to invest in a dedicated Android-powered eInk reader, one of whose primary purposes would have been to run KOreader.
My heart almost went into palpitations last week when I stumbled on a
post about LanguageBreak.
Flash forward to today.
KOreader for Kindle is praiseworthy in countless ways, but I want to single out for special mention the ability it allows to set a one-finger swipe to go back and forward a page: This mitigates to an uncanny extent for the PW3’s lack of page turn buttons.
Despite its age, my PW3 is a very fine little device, but over the years I’d slowly become disillusioned with and given up on it a bit due to its restricted functionality, to the point where (again, to allow me enjoy the benefits of KOreader) I'd been verging ever closer to investing in a dedicated Android-powered eInk reader.
Make no mistake: Since Tuesday, my PW3 is a new device, and LanguageBreak has allowed me totally park my prospecting for a new eInk device.
It's not an understatement to say that in minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour reading usage, KOreader me gives flexibility in how I read and use my Kindle for reading in a way
I wouldn't have dared dream possible prior to experiencing it.
If I could afford to, I’d set up regular sponsorships for those involved in KOreader and LanguageBreak rather than the one-off donations I’ve just made to a number of you.
Please know though how eternally grateful I am for KOreader and for this project.
In no particular order of priority then: Thank you Marek, thank you NiLuJe, thank you Frenzie, thank you mergen3107, thank you hius07, thank you Daviteusz. Where I could find a donate link for any of you, I used it. I’ve likely left out the names of contributors on this thread whose feedback helped, so thank you to anyone/everyone whose constructive contributions aided in any way.
It’s inspiring that a community of individuals can collaborate so successfully to overcome the limitations of a walled garden.
May good karma come all of your ways.
EDIT: corrections (spelling, word repetition)
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Originally Posted by Mob201503
I can't allow this day to end without expressing my deep gratitude to all involved in this project.
Spent several days going through all posts here and elsewhere on relevant forums, carefully making notes and taking screenshots etc, but was still sure something would go wrong when it came time for the procedure itself.
It took a retry or two on certain parts, but on first attempt today, I've successfully j'broken my PW3 using the LanguageBreak method.
GB/EN hotfix worked like a dream, and KUAL, renameOTAbin and ... most thrillingly of all... KOreader are now all in residence on my P'white.    
I won't go into the collateral benefits for me of this, specifically having KOreader on my Kindle, but suffice it to say, it breathes new life into this eight-year-old little front-lit reader.
In awe right now of, and so immensely thankful to, everyone who made this happen.
Donations will follow.
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