by dbadmin | Oct 28, 2025 | Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-Ink, eReader, News, Polls
I love a good surprise, like finding a $20 bill in last year’s jacket. Kindle updates are not always that. Despite their lack of fanfare, they can drastically reshape users’ reading experiences, sometimes for the better and sometimes not. As often as the updates...
by dbadmin | Oct 22, 2025 | Amazon, Amazon Kindle, News
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR A new technique has emerged for jailbreaking Kindle devices, and it is compatible with the latest firmware. It exploits ads to run code that jailbreaks the device. Jailbroken devices can run a superior reading app, as...
by dbadmin | Oct 20, 2025 | Amazon Kindle, News
Credit: Amazon TL;DR Amazon updated its Kindle Colorsoft FAQs with a candid disclaimer. The company says that black-and-white Kindles, like the Paperwhite, offer crisper text. Colorsoft screens still suit comics and PDFs, but trade sharpness for color. Update: October...
by dbadmin | Oct 18, 2025 | Amazon Kindle, E-Ink, eReader, Features
Amazon rarely undercuts its own products, but when the company quietly slipped a caveat into the FAQ for its new Colorsoft Kindle, it made one thing abundantly clear: if you care about crisp, black-and-white reading, buy something else. As someone who still acts like...
by dbadmin | Oct 16, 2025 | Amazon Kindle, News
Credit: Amazon TL;DR Amazon updated its Kindle Colorsoft FAQs with a candid disclaimer. The company says that black-and-white Kindles, like the Paperwhite, offer crisper text. Colorsoft screens still suit comics and PDFs, but trade sharpness for color. Color E-Ink...
by dbadmin | Oct 13, 2025 | Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-Ink, eReader, News, Reddit
TL;DR A Reddit user built a web tool called Kindlify.co, turning Kindles into Spotify remotes. The tool doesn’t play audio directly, but simply controls Spotify playback elsewhere. It’s a fun example of e-reader creativity, even if its uses are limited. E-readers...
