Hacking the Kindle Touch

http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Touch_Hacking

by casca • 14 years ago

33 15 14 years ago

wiki.mobileread.com

tnorthcutt• 14 years ago

What are the benefits of hacking/jailbreaking/modifying the Kindle Touch?

sidmitra3• 14 years ago

From the wiki:

* Use this custom reader to read mobi/epub/fb2/txt/rtf/html/pdb.

* pbchess is a powerful chess training program available for Kindle Touch

* Audio Recorder and Player

and some other apps like VNC!!

excuse-me5• 14 years ago

Like climbing Everest - because it's there !

darkarmani2• 14 years ago

Removing the ads.

tjoff• 14 years ago

If you didn't want the ads you should have bought an ad-free version.

excuse-me5• 14 years ago

Here I would side with Amazon.

It's not like skipping ads on Tivo or being forced to watch unstoppable trailers on a Disney DVD.

You have made an honest and fair deal with Amazon. You can buy a Kindle or they will pay you $20 in return for viewing some pretty unobtrusive ads. Hacking this version to skip the ads is basically unfair.

In reality few enough people will do it to impact Amazon, and the jailbreakers probably also own other kindles AND buy more books from Amazon than the average person - but Amazon is on the side of the angels here.

cysun• 14 years ago

Even though there are some benefits in this case, hacking/jailbreaking/modifying doesn't need any other reasons except fun doing it.

Hacking the Kindle Touch

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