Do you like to read? I can take over your Kindle with an e-book

[dimmke]

I skimmed the article and I guess it’s about a vulnerability that was patched in April so the title is a bit clickbait.

I love Kindle and it’s ecosystem.

I wish it wasn’t proprietary, but the convenience is unbeatable if you read a lot. Especially the progress syncing so if I’m out and about and open the Kindle app on my phone.

My biggest wish honestly would be improvements in the screen technology and USB-C charging. If they could improve the resolution and refresh rate, it’d be so nice.

[Causality1]

The e-readers are great but the apps are frankly garbage. They take forever to launch, gatekeep TTS, and have laughably few display options. It's great if you want blazing white text on a black background or brown text on an infinitesimally lighter brown background but God forbid you want grey on black or to listen to a book there's no audiobook for. Other ebook apps like Moon+Reader make the Kindle app look like a pathetic joke.

[open-source-ux]

"If they could improve the resolution"

What resolution improvement would you like to see?

I have a Kobo e-ink reader (the Clara HD) which has 300 PPI. For long texts, the e-ink screen is more comfortable to read than even the highest resolution tablets.

Some Kindle models also have a high resolution (e.g. Kindle Paperwhite with 300 PPI).

[salamandersauce]

There's Android eReaders like the Boox and Likebook lines. They even have USB C already and more size options. Don't have to be shackled to any one store since you can just run random apps including Kindle.

[gentleman11]

I never understood kindles. I really disliked mine. I only liked the data storage aspect once during a camping trip so I could bring some reference books, but paperbacks would have been fine too. I started reading paperbacks again and it’s been wonderful

Pdfs/epubs on a laptop can be handy if you are making anki cards as you go

[dismalpedigree]

Ditched kindle years ago when Amazon “unlicensed” a book I “bought.” Only real paper for me since then.

Good luck exploiting it. :)

[shkkmo]

That's kinda throwing the baby out with the bathwater. My kindle never has wifi turned on so never talks to Amazon. All books are loaded via Calibre.

[disabled]

Luckily, I have a print-related disability. So...

* I get access to 1,038,733 DRM-free books in several formats (including Word, EPUB, computer-narrated audio) via Bookshare.org

* I get access to 40,000+ professionally narrated books via the National Library Service through the Library of Congress in the US

* I get access to 80,000+ volunteer narrated books via LearningAlly.org (formerly Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic)

* I get access to hundreds of magazines and newspapers, including breaking news services, via the National Federation for the Blind NewsLine

* I get reciprocity with other countries' libraries for the print-disabled around the world, which is useful as I am in progress with learning new languages.

It's nice because I never have a need to go to websites that serve ads to me. Of course it's called uBlock Origin and using ProtonVPN with Anti-tracking + Ad-blocking features...but still...I have it good.

[dredmorbius]

There are numerous other e-book readers.

[2Gkashmiri]

I do not have my kindle signed in to any account. I use calibre to get data in and out and it works fine

[Rerarom]

Me too I keep it on airplane mode 24/7

[Shorel]

I don't read PDF files.

Show me a hack with .cbz comics or ePub files for my reader.

[aww_dang]

Presumably you could embed the same exploitable image format in an epub?

[maydup-nem]

Is Kindle DX vulnerable?