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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Jailbroken

Posted by timothy on from the rebel-in-the-library dept.

hypnosec writes "Amazon's latest Kindle Paperwhite is now officially jailbroken, giving users the ability to do things like turn their eReaders into weather station displays, or connect serially to a Raspberry Pi. To jailbreak the Paperwhite, the user needs to copy a file over to the root directory of the e-Reader and restart the device. The Kindle Paperwhite jailbreak is based on a previously known hack used on the Kindle Touch."

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  1. I'm jailbreaking mine. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm jailbreaking my Paperwhite so I can read ePubs!

    1. Re:I'm jailbreaking mine. by nurb432 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      That would be my first, and main reason as well. Same reason i rooted my nook touch, so i could read mobi native.. Having native access to both main formats is far better than having to convert and hope... ( now that both support pdf, that became a non-issue, but the mobi/epub issue is still there )

      Having direct access to the both 'markets' for books is good too.

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      ---- Booth was a patriot ----
  2. This shouldn't be news. by jmerlin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I understand why it is, but when we purchase a computer, it shouldn't be news to the world that "you can run programs on it." This industry has started a fad of creating walled gardens and severely incapacitating the things they're selling. It would be like buying a lawn mower that could only cut Monsanto grass. It would be like buying a Microwave Oven that would only work on a certain few name-brand items. It would be like buying a monitor that would only stream video from approved devices. It would be like buying a car that would only run on Exxon fuel and would only drive properly on certain roads.

    All of the above examples are absolutely absurd. So is this artificial limitation of computing devices. It needs to end, now.