While all the Kindles are jailbreakable, the Kindle Paperwhite is the newest and also requires an approach significantly different than older Kindles.
What Do I Need?įor this tutorial, you’ll need the following things: We don’t know about you, but around How-To Geek we love customizing things big and small, so this hack is right up our alley. We’ll detail how these modes work once we’ve installed the hack. The second part of the tutorial covers a great example of what you can do with a jailbroken Paperwhite, installing custom screensavers. The original screensaver hack was pretty awesome (as it allowed you to replace the stock Kindle screensavers with your own), but the new screensaver hack is even better as it allows for three modes: custom screensavers, displaying the cover of the last book read, and a lightweight “sleeping” overlay that keeps the current page visible. This is awesome because it allows you to use the device as you wish, including loading third party hacks, add-ons, and other cool tweaks. The jailbreak allows you to access your Kindle Paperwhite as if you were a developer with full access to the operating system and file structure of the device.
