mauvehed 🐿️ (KØMVH)You Don't Own Your Kindle Books (So I Took Ours Back)
https://rant.mvh.dev/we-dont-own-our-kindle-books-so-i-took-mine-back/
Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him)@mauvehed fwiw I'm slowly bringing back to life a couple of old Barnes and Noble nook ereaders, restoring my own cloud service for them, since Barnes and Noble decided they didn't want to support old devices.
Progress blog forum post here: https://xdaforums.com/t/progress-on-a-diy-cloud-for-eol-nook-hardware-bnrv500-possibly-others.4782115/
Last night I finally got dynamic user registration working, rather than every device thinking it had the same static device identifiers.
Progress on a DIY cloud for EOL Nook hardware (BNRV500, possibly others)
(cross-post from r/nook because there's not much traction over there) Week of Mar 2 2026 progress: Frustrated that my old Nook Glowlight from 2013 works standalone, but hints at content up in the cloud that I can't download any more, I wondered...