Honestly, I’m baffled by the tablet market. Everyone puts out underpowered devices. Even Google! How can you, in good faith, justify a tablet having a slower processor and less memory than a phone while trying to advertise it as the superior device, perfect for editing and whatnot?
I’d love to be able to repurpose my old kindles. I have 3 of them that have been gifted over the years and another two that I could probably just ask for since family members have newer ones.
Ideally I just want to have a simple ebook reader and nothing else for at least two of them.
The only issue is from the (admittedly small) searching I’ve done, they aren’t easy to root or install custom roms due to the software version or how new they are. I’ll admit I don’t exactly know what I’m even looking for.
I’d rather reuse things I already have than buy a new tablet just to read books on, especially since it seems like they’re just overpriced generic crap that all looks and mostly feels the same.
Jailbreak them!
Once you have KOReader installed, you’ve got your perfect use case out of them, you don’t need to do anything more than that.
Cool thing about KOReader, you can have it sync to a folder on your computer, so if you… acquire an ebook you just put it in that folder, and it shows up on your kindle! There’s definitely more setup for that, so perfectly excusable if you’d prefer to just drop the ebooks on there over USB!