The only difficult bit was getting a version of the Kindle software that was rootable. To do that you have to make sure it doesn't get updates, which basically means not allowing it to go online. If you ever go online, no matter what else happens, it tries to update its firmware. I ended up letting the battery on mine drain and then tossed it in a drawer for a few months. Eventually it was out of date enough that I could root it.

I got lucky because there was a jailbreakable version relatively soon. It looks like the last SW version that could be fully jailbroken was back in January 2022.

Wouldn't it be nice if Amazon had actual competitors and you could buy an e-reader that just ran open source software?

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I found out about the new jailbreak, hours before Amazon pushed an update to fix it. Luckily my older Kindle was dead so I could JB that one. Pissed, because I prefer koreader and was looking forward to jailbreaking my new Kindle

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You didn't have time to throw the new one in a faraday cage or something?

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Since I didn't know about the new jailbreak I used my Kindle like normal.

Just as I pulled it off the charger, to stick it in airplane mode, found out it was mid update

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Annoying.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can just enable airplane mode...

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Probably true, I just didn't want to risk it because I'd been burned by an unexpected update.