And yes, it’s a screensaver.
Meh, the way I look at it they’ve just motivated a LOT of people to move off their services and also jailbreak their devices.
Seems like a good time to acquire old devices too.
Indeed they have. Hopefully this will be the tip of the iceberg for a lot of people too.
As an old PaperWhite owner with no loyalty to Amazon, anywhere I can find a jailbreaking guide?
While not having PaperWhite this was the guide I used. Though be careful if you have firmware version 5.15.1.1 or later, you might need to downgrade first. And don’t rush anything. Good luck!
My ebook reader from 2008 still works, even if I may have to replace the battery.
I’m happy to leave Amazon, but it sure feels like Kindle Unlimited has a stranglehold on indie publishing. At this point I’m faced with sticking with Amazon or basically finding an entirely new genre to read, as 90% of the titles I like (litrpg) aren’t available outside Amazon due to KUs exclusivity clause.
Since it’s an immoral monopoly it’s up to you to decide if it’s perfectly morally justifiable to just sail the high seas for this.
I think there were other (DRM-free) Indie publishing platforms though… not sure how much they have to offer though.
Currently I’m still able to buy the book and break the DRM, though that option is rapidly closing. I try to buy it elsewhere if possible, but it’s often not.
Piracy is an option, but because the authors are so small, pirated copies can take months to become available, if they ever are. Also, I consider myself very knowledgeable in breaking the encryption for these files. I would be the person putting the upload out there if I was interested in that kind of thing. So if I’m having difficulty breaking the DRM, chances are high that nobody else has either. Or at least we’d be stuck with crappy OCR’d PDF copies instead of proper epubs.
At the end of the day though, as the consumer, exclusive content like this means I participate in the platform or I simply don’t get access to that content. If it were simply a couple of titles, that’s one thing, but it hurts when it’s an entire genre. It’d be like being a fan of metal music, but 90% of all metal music was only on Spotify and nowhere else. It’s horrible that a single company can control an entire genre like this.
I haven’t understood…
Amazon stopped the support for the older Kindles (though it seems only for store connection but anyway) so this will push people to learn new ways to read their books on their devices, a.k.a. jailbreak.
this will push people to learn new ways to read their books
The majority will probably just get a newer kindle model
It’s possible but if I were these people I would at least discover other options other than Kindle at this point.
It was impossible to upload books to these devices except for through Amazon?
No but recently Amazon also pushed an update to make this happen, so people who got this update cannot locally upload books on their devices anymore and have to use Amazon services to buy and download books. Luckily for older devices jailbreak is still an option. Also, people who didn’t update can still use Calibre too apparently. Customization is far better with jailbreak anyway though.
Have you got a link for local uploading requiring a jailbreak?
