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On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued "Download and Transfer via USB" feature to archive your Kindle library.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (7 children)

What can I do with a jailbroken kindle that makes it worth doing instead of just using calibre?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Better Calibre integration.

Custom shelves and book collections on Kindle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You literally just said the two things I wished Kindle allowed me to do natively.

I hate the fact my Kindle store books will bundle by series, but my non-kindle books will not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yea, I had like a 2nd or 3rd gen paperwhite and rooted it for this reason, but my partner's wasn't hackable until this moment. So now she can have it too.

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