Kindle Paperback setting up tips? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by randalthor17@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm going to buy a kindle paperback (I've never had one), and I'm sure I'm not going to buy any books for it. What mods/steps/other stuff do you guys suggest to set it up?

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[-] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah battery life was my prime use case, and since I really don't do anything but reading on the kindle, I haven't yet come across any potentially missing feature. Didn't they also serve ads at some point? I feel like if the kindle is disconnected from the internet for >30 days, the cached ads expire and that's that.

For non-fiction and notes taking I'm using the reMarkable 2, that's honestly a game changer. And it displays books in large enough size to view unmodified pdfs.

[-] riseuppikmin@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Preventing the updates is also another benefit of airplane mode if youre planning to jailbreak the kindle eventually.

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Correct, if you have the ad-supported version it will display ads if you let it check in again. So keeping it on airplane mode is an option to avoid that. Or you could just pay $20 to Amazon to remove the ads. I hear if you whine to customer support they might remove them for free, but haven't tried it.

[-] plexnose@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago

You don’t have to whine -literally just get on a chat and ask them ‘please can you remove these ads’ - they’ve done it for two kindles for me no charge, no question.

[-] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 2 points 1 year ago

I don't even know if I have the ad supported version, it's been that long. They kept pushing bestsellers onto my screen, but I don't know if those were ads or if that's considered a regular feature.