I’m pretty sure now that it being on airplane mode was the problem, because when I turned that off & left it on sitting I came back 5 minutes later & the books were there.Wait until the PW1 has installed the upgrade (really a downgrade).Īnother solution provided by this blogs reader (command line) This solution should be used in case when the Kindles storage drive flashes in the list of hard drives. The last couple times I’ve added books I’ve had to go through a big hassle to get the books to show up. I get DRM-Free versions of my books so that I can shrink & remove the color of artwork because I don’t need a 45MB book with 4000×2800 pixel Color images for my 1448×1072 Black & White screen. Calibre updated so that it will fix them, but sometimes you have to connect again for it to do so. Sometimes sideloaded books won’t show cover art. – – After: If you sideload books they won’t appear in your kindle until the kindle connects to WiFi for some reason. – – Before: Sideloading books from Calibre was easy. Screen defaults every boot to the clunky ad-ridled Home page with no option to default to your library. Great if you have some stuff that either you are embarrased to have seen, or you just don’t want clogging up the top of the homescreen with the 5 kids books that were opened or the textbooks or reference books that use. – – Before: Option to sort by recently used but have items in a collection or just in certain collections not show on the home page. I generally only jailbreak old devices, like my old Kindle Paperwhite 5th Gen, but the new user interface sucks. Perfect reason, after 5.14.3 now you can’t do anything. People often ask what are the benefits of jailbreaking Kindles, and this a good example of what can be done to take control of the Kindle you purchased so you can use it however you want, not just how Amazon tells you to use it.įiled Under: Amazon Kindle Tagged With: firmware update, hacks For the most part that wasn’t possible with most Kindles, but now with the new jailbreak method and this tool there is a way to go back to older software for those that really want to, and it’s doesn’t require any special skills, just the ability to follow a set of directions. You can make your own decision on what software to use instead of being forced to use whatever Amazon tells you.Įver since Amazon started changing the layout on Kindles, a bunch of people have been asking how to go back to the old layout. If you don’t like the new Kindle user interface, you can rollback to an earlier software version with the old interface. The process has been automated to make it super easy. But once your Kindle is jailbroken, all you have to do is install a simple KUAL addon to downgrade your Kindle’s software to an earlier version.
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