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I own a Kindle Paperwhite, and have had this line since 2014 (it’s my third; the previous two were donated to two people I love who don’t have the same reading intensity I do and were super happy with a perfectly functional ereader, but wouldn’t have bought one, while I really wanted great performance. It’s also my only Amazon purchase in the past year. I just really like Kindle Paperwhites.)

I own the books on my Kindle Paperwhite, because I stopped buying renting books from Amazon years ago. I buy or acquire non-DRM’d epub files which I send to my e-reader through Calibre. I also use the Push to Kindle browser extension, which is really good and allows me to send all my friends’ blog posts and all my news articles to the e-reader which will protect my eyes and allow me to read in bed.

I love it.

Except.

There seems to have been a recent update to the Kindle software, because now, the clipping limitations (which were shameful on Amazon books already) seem to apply to my own epub files as well. I can’t clip more than 10% of posts that are sometimes 15 sentences long.

I can’t believe I thought that bypassing DRM and using only my own files would mean I’d have some level of control on what I did. I’m so tired that open-source is always about software, when clearly there are issues with hardware too (okay, I know it’s software inside the hardware, but what I mean is that I want to buy an open-source Kindle that works just as well as a Kindle).

Anyway, if anyone knows how to jailbreak the Kindle and put KOreader on it, I’m interested. (I’ve seen the tutorials, don’t send them to me.) I haven’t done it before because it’s very scary, and because I’m scared of performance issues, but if they’re pulling this shit, either I get KOReader or another happy relative is getting a one year old Kindle Paperwhite while I buy myself a Kobo and stay sad every day at how it doesn’t fill my reading & highlighting needs the way a Kindle does… or used to.