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These are the reasons put.io is awesome:

    - It caches torrents that other people downloaded(popular torrents) so if you add them, they are in your library immediately
    - You can subscribe to RSS feeds of TV shows from showrss.info without needing to download every show individually 
    - You can install the XBMC app to access you content there
    - A REST API? Yup! They have it!
    - It converts videos to MP4 on their cloud 
    - You can use multi-connection downloaders to reach to speeds like 30Mbps
    - There are many apps to use with put.io

The Benefits of JailBreaking Your Kindle:

- Customize your lock screen to the recently opened book cover, selected image, or randomized from a collection of images. Amazon added something similar recently but it took them 13 years for something so basic.

- KOReader for reading epub and pdf. Also, you get access to the filesystem so you can organize your books however you want.

- Customizable collections (similar to folders) with Calibre

- Run Python so you can run w/e you want. Some ideas...

    - Sideload books via WiFi

    - Sync notes automatically

The main idea of Jailbreaking is that you own your device and you can do whatever you want with it. However, I switched from a Jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite to an Android e-ink reader about a year ago and I'm never looking back.

Regardless, I'm happy to see this on Hacker News!


BigQuery public dataset https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19304326

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