Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂May 7

One of my biggest regrets from the past few years was losing the habit of reading books. All the usual excuses: child to look after, too tired, not enough time…

I didn’t read a ton, but I had an average of 30 books a year. Last year I must have read 6. This year in early April I was at 0… and the realization shook me to my core.

Something had to be done.

I found out about KOreader and SimpleUI - having on an e-reader homepage a bar with reading stats would be an incredible motivator… I thought.

Jailbroke my #Kindle, installed #KOreader and #SimpleUI. And 18 days later I have… an 18 day reading streak and I’m averaging 43 minutes of reading time per day. I’m just so happy! 😊

(Unrelated but #Technofeudalism is REALLY GOOD - off to go resume reading it for another 20 minutes or so).

#books #reading #habits #KindleJailbreak

Show threadprojectmoonMay 7
@elena I jailbroke my Kindle and broke the Kindle. It loads, but is in some kind of weird state. Have to maybe try again and start from scratch...
Show threadElena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂
@projectmoon I would try to factory reset it before the Amazon deadline for registration of old Kindles. Is that May 10th?
May 7 at 8:10amWeb
Show threadprojectmoonMay 7
@elena My Kindle is an Oasis 8th gen. Seems like I had already factory reset from my prior attempt. Did jailbreak with winterbreak, and everything worked fine. Now koreader etc is all set up and Amazon and OTA updates blocked.
Show threadcwicseolforMay 7
@elena @projectmoon The 20th, but never hurts to leave a few spare days for troubleshooting to be on the safe side!