Did this to my old Kindle 3 Keyboard, but it’s so slow and clunky with KOReader that it wasn’t worth it IMO. Luckily my wife has a Paperwhite that feels amazing with KOReader (touch interface and great speed), so I can highly recommend jailbreaking those!
So what’s does this do for me exactly? The text mentions
As of May 20, 2026, users of all Kindle devices released before 2013 will be completely cut off from the Kindle ecosystem. You will not be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content via the Kindle Store.
but says nothing about whether a jailbreaked Kindle will be able to download content from the Kindle Store. I sort of doubt it.
It actually does mention that you’ll no longer have access to online kindle services. You’d have to download ebooks from other sources.
But I can do that already without jailbreaking it
I’ve done this on a touch and a DX. It is indeed worth it, especially for the older firmwares that still have features that have been dropped (e.g. TTS got dropped after the DX I think, because Bezos wanted to sell more audiobooks).
You may need to make use of archive.org for some devices, link rot is a real problem.
I have a decade+ old one that I never connected to the internet and so it never gets ads. And I pirate everything on it, so it works great! I prefer physical books but it’s nice for when I don’t want to carry one around, and i can instead have a library that fits in my back pocket.
