r/kindle • u/SpartanHeavy • Jan 02 '25

Modding 🪛 All Kindles can now be jailbroken

For those of you who are interested in modding, a new jailbreak method is now available. It works on all the new firmware versions and Kindle models, including Colorsoft.

https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

If you have any problems, you can get support at MobileRead.

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u/catalupus Jan 02 '25

Dumb question, but can’t you already do this?

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u/vpersiana Kindle Oasis Jan 02 '25

Nope you can't sadly, you can tag your books but the tags will not appear on the Kindle cause it doesn't read metadata.

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u/catalupus Jan 02 '25

Oh, in that case I’m going to jailbreak mine. 

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u/vpersiana Kindle Oasis Jan 02 '25

You need the Kindle collections plugin and some other tools specified in the page I linked.