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I love my ereader. It's lightweight, fits in a pocket, and lets me read on a more comfortable (non-AI-slop) platform than my phone, laptop, or 3ds. It's neither perfect nor the same as a book, but it does the job. I run KOReader on a jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite 7. With the exception of hardware, it's moreso KOReader than kindle. The only time I am in the kindle-interface is when I'm importing books as I prefer to do that over cable rather than wirelessly. I also don't have am amazon account and keep it in flight mode 99% of the time - the purpose is to read, not send tracking information to Bezos. I bought it second hand off of Mercado Livre. It was important for me to get an old (2015) one second hand for three reasons: (1) I enjoy repurposing/reusing/repairing old tech, (2) old kindles can be jailbroken and used primarily for reading instead of Bezos' profits, and (3) buying new tech is horrible from an ecological point of view. I wanted to write "new tech unless striclty needed",…

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