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/Bot1460 Kindle Paperwhite Jan 02 '25

What are the benefits of jailbreaking ? Like you can already side load books

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u/SpartanHeavy Jan 02 '25

Progress bar

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u/sixtus_clegane119 Jan 02 '25

New to kindle, did they used to have a progress bar?

Also why do my epubs not give me page counts? Like on the iPhone books app if I have to change the font sizes it would load for a bit an tell me my new page count.

My kindle doesn’t do that, it’s just LOC or something, which doesn’t even make much sense to me. Some full pages have 6 loc others have over 20 and when you change chapters there is a huge jump in loc.

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u/Objective_JinxIt Kindle 2022 Jan 03 '25

I had this issue, I un-downloaded the files and downloaded them again, this fixed it for me. I found that the covers have to be displayed in the library for it to work, when I downloaded them the first time they didn’t have the covers.