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Originally Posted by Quoth
Oh, that's not an opinion. It's fact, which why Amazon has the stupid system for KU. Real libraries in UK & Ireland both have to buy the book (or licence the ebook) and pay a per loan royalty. It's irrelevant if the book is read. Amazon's system of getting the content free, deciding on a pot and then sharing that according to pages read cheats authors/publishers and invades the privacy or readers/users/public. Amazon's KU is wrong, as is getting all but large publisher content exclusively. An author or small publisher can't even give away copies free if they are on KU.
But it's sales that feeds and houses the authors.
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I agree with everything
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Jailbroken Kindles is a tiny percentage of Kindle users. Pretty much only is done for KOReader. Also up-to-date FW usually can't be jailbroken.
I do have a jailbreak on a Kindle DX, partly out of curiosity and party to set the time, but not any other Kindle and none of the many Kindle users I know have any interest in Jailbreak or KOReader.
Also you can read a pirated book on any ereader or app. It's the DRM'ed commercially sold or library loans that take expertise to read on a different device to that intended, and that doesn't need a jailbreak either.
Jailbreaking is irrelevant to reading ebooks and the only thing that absolutely needs it is a wish to to use KOReader on a Kindle.
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Up until 2022, it wasn't as easy to get epubs on Kindle. On top of that, the Kindle reading app is very limited in comparison. Without it, my PW3 would've been an ok reader, but with KOReader and its many features, it's been nothing short of amazing. I wouldn't even have had Night Mode -- or dictionary-based hyphenation, Calibre connect etc. In my opinion, it's the best reader out there.
And the in page footnotes feature is great too, for me it doesn't matter it's not available in other apps. Perhaps it'll make even more people try it.