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Do you like to read? I can take over your Kindle with an e-book
- dismalpedigree 5y agoDitched kindle years ago when Amazon “unlicensed” a book I “bought.” Only real paper for me since then. Good luck exploiting it. :)
- shkkmo 5y agoThat's kinda throwing the baby out with the bathwater. My kindle never has wifi turned on so never talks to Amazon. All books are loaded via Calibre.
- shrubby 5y agoI have two ancient Kindles too as offline versions. Converting and transferring via Calibre. I like to read on these so the UX outside the reading mode is minimal and perfectly justifiable. Nothing fancy but it gets the job done.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoThen why use a kindle at all ? There a better and or freer brands if you don't use amazon ecosystem.
- something98 5y agoDefine better. Eink, lightweight, and perfectly sized for books. What is missing?
- pjerem 5y agoKobo and PocketBook readers have all those features and can be fed with every format you wish just by plugging them to any computer without conversion or by sending them anything by email, or Dropbox. And you can turn pages by pressing a good old button standing right under your finger.
- Johnythree 5y agoThe essential page-turn keys.
- otherme123 5y agoI never understood the no-epub stance of Amazon. Some carefully edited epubs gets botched when transformed by Calibre. That said, at hardware level the Kindle is hard to beat.
- leucineleprec0n 5y agoDialing in the precise transformations needed for every copy got so annoying I eventually accepted the botching.
- chmod775 5y agoNicer screens/features and hackability mostly. The Kindles so far are midrange hardware at best (and their pricing reflects that). Only the Kindle Oasis 3 approaches a resolution on which you can open a comic/manga/pdf full page and read smaller fonts. Entirely missing from the Amazon lineup (and where we're entering the $400-$1000 range) are ebook tablets. Having gone through a dozen different reading devices, I can say that I prefer Kobo devices. They admittedly have a special place in my heart for being fixable after I soft bricked one by messing around with the OS via ssh - their "internal" storage is an actual physical micro sd card sitting on the board that you can pop out after opening the device. A kind stranger on a forum sent me a good firmware and a 'dd' later I had a working device again.
- rualca 5y agoNot having to fight the device to stop it from phoning home might also be a feature that's missing from Kindle devices.
- shkkmo 5y agoMy paperwhite 3 was the best choice at the time for a pocket-sized waterproof reader.
- brnt 5y agoI pcik up refurb Kindles for 30-50 EUR. Plus Calibre makes for a fine and hassle free experience.
- TylerLives 5y agoHow do you know the WiFi is never turned on?
- shkkmo 5y agoI have to trust the closed source software does that it purports to do. This is something we all have to do when we use computers. I certainly don't know that Amazon doesn't program the wifi to turn on, find open networks, and phone home while it pretends to be in airplane mode. It does seem rather unlikely given the risks/rewards that Amazon would face in implementing such a system.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThere are numerous other e-book readers.
- disabled 5y agoLuckily, I have a print-related disability. So... * I get access to 1,038,733 DRM-free books in several formats (including Word, EPUB, computer-narrated audio) via Bookshare.org * I get access to 40,000+ professionally narrated books via the National Library Service through the Library of Congress in the US * I get access to 80,000+ volunteer narrated books via LearningAlly.org (formerly Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic) * I get access to hundreds of magazines and newspapers, including breaking news services, via the National Federation for the Blind NewsLine * I get reciprocity with other countries' libraries for the print-disabled around the world, which is useful as I am in progress with learning new languages. It's nice because I never have a need to go to websites that serve ads to me. Of course it's called uBlock Origin and using ProtonVPN with Anti-tracking + Ad-blocking features...but still...I have it good.
- dimmke 5y agoI skimmed the article and I guess it’s about a vulnerability that was patched in April so the title is a bit clickbait. I love Kindle and it’s ecosystem. I wish it wasn’t proprietary, but the convenience is unbeatable if you read a lot. Especially the progress syncing so if I’m out and about and open the Kindle app on my phone. My biggest wish honestly would be improvements in the screen technology and USB-C charging. If they could improve the resolution and refresh rate, it’d be so nice.
- salamandersauce 5y agoThere's Android eReaders like the Boox and Likebook lines. They even have USB C already and more size options. Don't have to be shackled to any one store since you can just run random apps including Kindle.
- gentleman11 5y agoI never understood kindles. I really disliked mine. I only liked the data storage aspect once during a camping trip so I could bring some reference books, but paperbacks would have been fine too. I started reading paperbacks again and it’s been wonderful Pdfs/epubs on a laptop can be handy if you are making anki cards as you go
- dimmke 5y agoI hate the physical act of having to turn pages/make sure the book is angled toward a light source. Kindle makes it possible to read in the dark and without changing positions. Also if you read a lot you aren’t piling up a bunch of physical books you aren’t likely to ever read again.
- Johnythree 5y agoI really hate the page turning function on the Kindle. It seems that the sales people have added a multitude of unwanted functions: Dictionary, highlights, notes, and so many others. When I attempt to turn the page it will frequently jump into some unwanted function. And often it will leap to a random page, leaving no way to get back to where I was. And the functions are entirely different between books and magazines. Just yesterday I lost my place in a book and spent half an hour trying to get back. Eventually I deleted the book entirely and abandoned the Kindle. From now on I'll be using a tablet to read on. Additionally the tablet can display PDF's which are my main interest.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agoI do not have my kindle signed in to any account. I use calibre to get data in and out and it works fine
- Rerarom 5y agoMe too I keep it on airplane mode 24/7
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- maydup-nem 5y agoIs Kindle DX vulnerable?
- Shorel 5y agoI don't read PDF files. Show me a hack with .cbz comics or ePub files for my reader.
- aww_dang 5y agoPresumably you could embed the same exploitable image format in an epub?
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