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1. Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2014 00:46:00 UTC Jon Kulp
   #Welp Kindle is jailbroken. Now gotta install some of those shiny mods.
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2014 02:47:08 UTC Jon Kulp
     @eric I haven't tried to mess with the screensaver images yet, but that's one of the first things a lot of people do. I did install an alternate ebook reader that supports epub format and has hyphenation. What I'd really like is a menu option for left justification.
   • Charles Roth MPC (encycl@vox.a2c3.co)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2014 08:44:06 UTC Charles Roth MPC

     in reply to

     @jonkulp “he saw a world of random word spacing, and he left justified it one epub at a time.”

   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2014 11:47:15 UTC Jon Kulp

     in reply to

     • Charles Roth MPC
     @encycl exactly!!
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2014 11:47:38 UTC Jon Kulp
     @eric I'm about to try a pdf on it. PDFs are crap on stock Kindle.
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2014 11:59:53 UTC Jon Kulp
     @eric OMG 2 words: Reflowing PDFs \o/
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2014 13:10:20 UTC Jon Kulp

     • x1101
     @x1101 with the KOreader in jailbroken Kindle you can reflow pdf text (then adjust fontsize as desired) or manually crop whitespace. This is good for all the JSTOR articles I have to read,which only come as pdf. I tried both, prefer the reflow option even though pagination is kinda squirrelly.
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2014 13:32:43 UTC Jon Kulp

     • x1101
     @x1101 really easy compared to a phone. Unpack a zip file into device root directory, run "update software" from device menu. Differs slightly depending on device. There's at least one model where you can just stick an mp3 file on the device and click Play and it jailbreaks the device for you.
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2014 15:41:36 UTC Jon Kulp

     • Johnny Null
     • x1101
     @x1101 @JohnnyNull y'all crazies!
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2014 16:27:35 UTC Jon Kulp
     @eric which model do you have?
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2014 16:28:47 UTC Jon Kulp
     @eric I used this thread: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186645
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2014 16:29:04 UTC Jon Kulp
     @eric ...and mine is Paperwhite 1, firmware 5.4.4.2
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2014 02:04:16 UTC Jon Kulp
     @eric uses physical buttons?
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2014 02:05:32 UTC Jon Kulp
     @eric so it *is* touch?
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2014 02:20:17 UTC Jon Kulp
     @eric but no keyboard? How do you type titles?
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2014 02:27:47 UTC Jon Kulp
     @eric oh yuck!!
   • Jon Kulp (jonkulp@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2014 03:20:25 UTC Jon Kulp
     @eric I would definitely side-load everything onto that. It'd be hard to annotate books too, I guess.