Amazon Kindle Touch

My Kindle Touch, judging by the plastic, is old, on its second battery. I love that the reading experience has not changed at all in the time I’ve had the device. I never thought of it as a bookshelf, but that’s a great way to put it. In contrast, my iPhone changes with each update, but often I find not for the better – I hated the new control center at first, and while I made it mostly match the old one, the tap targets are smaller than they used to be, on my 4.7” display.

I have the same Kindle as the OP and very nearly bought the Xteink4. However, they wanted $28 to ship to Alaska, which put me off buying it; my Kindle Touch still works fine after many years and one battery replacement, though it's slow compared to newer E Ink devices.

Did the Oasis really not have that functionality? I have a Kindle Touch (2011) and read PDFs on it all the time. Depending on the text size, it's usually more comfortable to read them a half-page at a time in landscape mode, but if the margins are cropped a full page view is often perfectly readable.

Ha, I've soldered to the same pins as the author! I just left the wires dangling out of the case, but pulled them through the aluminum latches (?) in the case for some stabilization. > Final hurdle: the kindle serial port runs at 1.8v, so I needed a serial port adaptor which supports that It turns out that most adapters support receiving at 1.8V, you just need a simple voltage divider to keep them from sending more. Unfortunately I didn't really achieve what I wanted to - I'd like to wake the Kindle using some external device that can poll data at lower power (Thread/BLR/ESP Now) to build an E-Ink display with a long battery life and that can be updated with a relatively low latency. It seems like the chip has a feature for being woken up from deep sleep via UART, but it's disabled by default and needs to be set with a kernel parameter and I haven't managed to set one so far (cmdline set in U-Boot keeps being reset to the original one). Maybe someone has an idea? Does my approach even make sense? Could I get away with a similar efficiency with the Kindle's hardware alone? ... if you want most other things, you don't really even need to open the shell, though. There's a huge amount of software-based jailbreaks over on Mobileread along with cool helpful software tools, tips and cool people. The Kindle is a whole single board computer with a full Linux system (which is a joy to explore by the way, it's largely made up of shell scripts and js, which is often not only not obfus…

Bits of trivia: Some Kindle components are named after Mario characters. My Kindle Touch is built on the Yoshi platform (that is the only one I can find right now, but I remember there being more; boot logs contain "K76mcsd:def:skipping on non-Mario-based WW hardware"). My Kindle's root password is "fiona430" (Shrek?). The Kindle Touch's system is a pretty normal Linux from around 2010. Upstart, D-Bus, Xorg, awesome WM. The shell is made with GTK 2 and lots of unobfuscated, commented (!!!) Javascript. It's a joy to explore. If the kernel wasn't ancient you could run modern Linux apps on it - on the newer models you can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcZiVo1z4Eg , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHoPgXb-JNM Maybe somebody from lab126 could comment on the culture that brought forth software internally so fun .

I'll probably get one, I just got the most recent kindle touch after selling the 2nd generation kindle for it. Looks like I'll be moving on to my 3rd kindle. There's something about the price point that really sells me on these...$120 doesn't seem like a big deal, specially if I sell my current generation, it only ends up costing maybe ~$50 to upgrade and reading on an ultra light kindle is a lot more comfortable to me than an iPad or physical book. It sounds like they wont have a non-touch model this time though. I like all the new features but I would probably go back to a non-touch screen if they offered it. I tend to hit the screen too often by mistake and end up losing my place.

You can jailbreak old Kindles (out of software updates) even more easily. Old Touch Kindles are getting dirt cheap and are still perfectly capable.

That's not true. Here's a video of a Kindle Touch from 2012 playing a movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr52ZWEZH4Q