That's cool. I may keep an eye out for old Kindles in thrift stores and whatnot. With the advent of android tablets that just have e paper displays, I probably will try those before buying another kindle.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Does it let me put Linux on it?

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[–] Toribor@corndog.social 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Anyone know how to set custom screen idle images after doing this? I've been wanting to put 'Don't Panic' on my 6th gen paperwhite since I got it but it's so locked down that wasn't possible.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Custom sleep picture is one of the features of KOReader. Pretty easy to spot it in the settings.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 2 points 6 days ago

I decided to go ahead and install KOReader and check it out. It's pretty neat although I can't find what you're describing in the settings.

In any case I was hoping to find a way to do this without having to switch to a separate user interface.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is there a way to change the Library to be able to see epub files? I have KOReader installed now, but I have to go through the directory to find my epub files.

[–] win95@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You can set a specific folder as the "home" folder on koreader by long pressing the folder where your files are located. I put all my epubs in there with moisaic viewing style.

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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

What for? Cuz loading pirated books is trivial?

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Isn't a cracked (old, I think?) Kindle the only way to pirate KU/DRM titles? At least, that's what I recall from the last time I looked into it. There's a book I really wanted to format shift from KU since Google TTS was fucking up all the proper nouns, but I gave up. (It was an obscure book that isn't available anywhere pirated.)

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago

Ah I wouldn't know about THAT. I just download and convert epubs from the likes of z-library/libgen, and have done so since getting my first Kindle circa 2012

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[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 days ago

Cool!

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago

Giving me something to do with my current kindle. I wasn't sure how to load to it my downloaded books, so I've been suffering on my phone, but hopefully this helps me out a bunch. Thanks. This is a rabbit hole I never knew existed.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 3 points 6 days ago

What does it do?

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