e-book: Kobo Clara BW

[oracle]

So, after about three years of trying to get an offline e-book reader that has no useless features, khm made this post and I immediately bought it.

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This means you can effectively use it as an offline device, without the need to sell your soul to some company, just to read your files. Without this 'jailbreak', you cannot use the device, unless you register your device and make an online account.

You can still use the wifi though. It does have a web browser:

triapul.cz on kobo clara bw

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[headcrash]

Oh that's pretty neat! And an extremely simple jailbreak as well.. Cool stuff!

[tekk]

I actually have a Clara. It's a really nice bit. I bought a lot of 1st gen Kobos but they were built terrible. One literally broke from being in my pocket during a drive (going from Orlando to Tampa, it being in my jeans caused the screen to crack.) The Clara has held up much better. They're all super easy to hack and cfw too. You literally just put a zip with a root image into a specified directory on the sd card and it "upgrades" to it no questions asked if I remember right.