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Originally Posted by PigDan
I would love to see some guides/additional resources shared about what to actually do once jailbroken for the newcomers to the scene.. kindlemodding.org seems pretty geared towards the technical and longtime-modders side of things and kindlemodding.gitbook.io has a bit more on post-jailbreak content. And then this hacks page that linked in the guide . I'll have to go over and carefully read this thread a few times just to understand what version of KOReader to install!  More info would be much appreciated and very helpful! |
There's a version guide at the bottom of
https://github.com/koreader/koreader...Kindle-devices. Unless you have a very old* Kindle, you have two choices: if you're running 5.16.2 or older software, you'll want the PW2 version; if you're running 5.16.3 or newer, you'll want the KindleHF version. The KindleHF build wasn't official as of the last stable release,
so you'll need to use a nightly build until the next stable release comes out.
* The PW2, AKA the Kindle Paperwhite 6th Generation, was released in September 2013. If you have a Kindle older than that, you should know what you have and be able to pick the right version listed on that page.
Personally I wouldn't bother with the jailbreak unless I knew what I wanted it for. Why put yourself through the trouble without a good reason? (Note: wanting to freeze updates on a known-jailbreak-able version instead of just letting Amazon do what it wants is a good reason, but in that case you don't need to install anything but the hotfix, MRPI, KUAL, and renameotabin as described in the Kindle Modding wiki).
In addition to the stuff described in the wiki, I have KOReader, the
KOL-V1.3.6-gd057b4d-20231106.tar.xz build of the booklet launcher, and the
coversetter extension to MRPI. That's enough for me.