Kindle Jailbreak

Theydon Bois

Not that having Wonder Woman as a cover is not awesome, but any other advantages to jailbreaking a kindle?

One little gripe I had was the ordering (not able to order books without renaming them with a numeric prefix) and also not opening a book to see its cover, can you address these issues by jailbreaking it?

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richardb70

Only did mine to replace the "dead authors" (and am now scrambling to find a Wonder Woman picture obviously!).

Did mine a while back and it doesn't address either of those, but if you dig up anything, I'd be interested...

Theydon Bois

I need to get one first.......

ukbootlegs

What exactly are those gripes bud?

My biggest gripe is not being able to create a collection on my pc and put the books into the collection that way.

i.e. all my John Grisham books into one collection.

all my biogs in another etc.  I found a calibre plugin but it wasn't flexible enough.

Theydon Bois

My gripes, bearing in mind I had a Kindle for around 3 days:

Books open directly to the first printed page.

A kindle already removes the 'character' of the book by its very nature, offset by the portablity of having your entire library in your pocket. I dont want it to remove the front cover as well. Open a book, see the jacket in its monochrome glory, and then the first few dedication pages. An option to turn this on or off would be fine that just want to read. And yes, I know I can flick backwards to see it, but thats not intuative.

Ordering

aiui, you can put books into groups or folders, but a trilogy of books that are not alphabetical will be sorted alphabetically as it has no other way of doing so. There is a ton of metadata available for books, can there not be a field or two that tag the book, ie:

The Fellowship of the Ring
META: Lord of the Rings Book 1

The Two Towers
META: Lord of the Rings Book 3

The Return of the King
META: Lord of the Rings Book 3

The if you sorted by this you would get 1, 2, 3 rather than alphabetically which would be 1, 3, 2. Again you can get round this by renaming books with a prefix, but it would be nice if a system design to carry 4000 books could do so without a huge amount of restructoring.

richardb70

I think having 4000 books on a Kindle would be horrific for locating specific titles! So far, that's the only issue I have with it - tagging is a great idea but is a reason why I haven't fully embraced gmail. I like having discrete folders (and subfolders), I guess.

Currently, I just don't have all that many titles on the device itself. I use my PC as my primary storage, and I "refill" the Kindle every so often. As for collections, I only use a handful ("To read", "Currently reading" etc).

ukbootlegs

Theydon Bois

I agree with your points.

I hate the fact it doesn't show the book cover.  It would be lovely to have a thumbnail of the book on the home screen.  (collection screen etc)

i have to use calibre to manually edit my book names when they are in a series

ukbootlegs

Anyway, we got off topic

Apart from wallpaper, why would you jailbreak it?

Theydon Bois

Not off topic at all, I am hoping someone says "ah!" and then point me in the direct on a jailbreak guide on how to customise the Kindle to remove my little gripes as above.

I have not looked much, but with my birthday looming, I will get one as a present from someone or myself, and then I will start looking to see if I can change things.

ukbootlegs

It's my bday today

I got a kindle for free from tesco as i had just over £170 of tesco vouchers.