Hello!
I have Paperwhite 3 and a Keyboard. I'm not an expert at jailbreaking kindles at all.
I noticed that there is an .active-content-data folder on PW3 as well. But it's always empty. So this implies that PW3 supports Kindle Active Content somehow. Though Amazon support wrote me the following:
Kindle active content is not compatible with Fire tablets, Kindle Paperwhite (7th Generation), Kindle (7th Generation), Kindle Voyage, and Kindle reading apps.
Then I thought, if this is the case I should buy a used Keyboard with azw2 support. I decided to buy the Keyboard because it supports a wide range of active contents.
As you can see I'm not from the US, so I had to trick the system by making another amazon account with settings like US billing address, US country, US VPN and by registering my Keyboard to that account. So now, I'm able to download, purchase kindle active contents.
But there are apps that I still can't buy though. :chinscratch: And I don't know why. Let's see three examples:
http://www.amazon.com/Utility-Kit/dp/B00AYIR57E
This is not compatible with Keyboard but I don't know why because I don't think that the application itself relies only on touchscreens. But it's OK, I can accept that there are a few apps not compatible with Keyboard. Most of them are.
http://www.amazon.com/Fluid/dp/B00793C3K6
This is compatible with it but somehow it can't be purchased. There is a short reference why you are not allowed to buy it.
This title is not available for some devices because the media content and file delivery are not optimized for those devices.
As far as I can tell these titles/apps (I remember there are others in interactive fiction category) are not available because of adult content. So the question is how can I cheat the system to let me buy those as well? I was searching a lot where you can set your age in your amazon account but no avail.
http://www.amazon.com/Maze-A-Thon/dp...dp_product_img
This one here is the strangest because it's compatible with Keyboard, there is no adult content, though you still can't buy it. WHY?
Each of these says: This title is not currently available for purchase.
Moreover, they are not listed on Keyboard's kindle store search and you can't even search them by typing @author <the author's name>. Why? You could list and buy at least those being compatible with Keyboard.
So the active content data folder on PW3 aroused my interest and I decided to copy some of those azw2s to my PW3. And it was an astonishing discovery for me to find out that PW3 is able to recognize them. There is the "active" inscription next to the apps in my library listing and the context menu consist of the same items: Add to Collection, Open, Description, Support, Get Latest Version, Delete. But when I tap to the Open I get something like: this type of content is not compatible with this device. But if it's true, why DOES it recognize the active content at all? :blink: (I mean the menus, the inscription next to the app's name) And if you just tap on description it opens the kindle store version of item description and it says: Currently unavailable. But you can still read all the information and the reviews lol.
I fully understand that there are apps requiring keyboard or at least the 5-way navigation button, such as Inheritance. But I can hardly imagine that none of these(I mean all the kindle active contents) apps are compatible with PW3. I think, at least apps compatible with PW2 must be compatible with PW3 as well.
I have the version 5.7.4.1, so can it run somehow azw2 apps or should I be satisfied with Keyboard compatibility?
Otherwise I usually read interactive fictions on Keyboard so I wondered if there is a way to use dictionaries for the texts of azw2 apps?
Thanks for your replies.
I have Paperwhite 3 and a Keyboard. I'm not an expert at jailbreaking kindles at all.
I noticed that there is an .active-content-data folder on PW3 as well. But it's always empty. So this implies that PW3 supports Kindle Active Content somehow. Though Amazon support wrote me the following:
Kindle active content is not compatible with Fire tablets, Kindle Paperwhite (7th Generation), Kindle (7th Generation), Kindle Voyage, and Kindle reading apps.
Then I thought, if this is the case I should buy a used Keyboard with azw2 support. I decided to buy the Keyboard because it supports a wide range of active contents.
As you can see I'm not from the US, so I had to trick the system by making another amazon account with settings like US billing address, US country, US VPN and by registering my Keyboard to that account. So now, I'm able to download, purchase kindle active contents.
But there are apps that I still can't buy though. :chinscratch: And I don't know why. Let's see three examples:
http://www.amazon.com/Utility-Kit/dp/B00AYIR57E
This is not compatible with Keyboard but I don't know why because I don't think that the application itself relies only on touchscreens. But it's OK, I can accept that there are a few apps not compatible with Keyboard. Most of them are.
http://www.amazon.com/Fluid/dp/B00793C3K6
This is compatible with it but somehow it can't be purchased. There is a short reference why you are not allowed to buy it.
This title is not available for some devices because the media content and file delivery are not optimized for those devices.
As far as I can tell these titles/apps (I remember there are others in interactive fiction category) are not available because of adult content. So the question is how can I cheat the system to let me buy those as well? I was searching a lot where you can set your age in your amazon account but no avail.
http://www.amazon.com/Maze-A-Thon/dp...dp_product_img
This one here is the strangest because it's compatible with Keyboard, there is no adult content, though you still can't buy it. WHY?
Each of these says: This title is not currently available for purchase.
Moreover, they are not listed on Keyboard's kindle store search and you can't even search them by typing @author <the author's name>. Why? You could list and buy at least those being compatible with Keyboard.
So the active content data folder on PW3 aroused my interest and I decided to copy some of those azw2s to my PW3. And it was an astonishing discovery for me to find out that PW3 is able to recognize them. There is the "active" inscription next to the apps in my library listing and the context menu consist of the same items: Add to Collection, Open, Description, Support, Get Latest Version, Delete. But when I tap to the Open I get something like: this type of content is not compatible with this device. But if it's true, why DOES it recognize the active content at all? :blink: (I mean the menus, the inscription next to the app's name) And if you just tap on description it opens the kindle store version of item description and it says: Currently unavailable. But you can still read all the information and the reviews lol.
I fully understand that there are apps requiring keyboard or at least the 5-way navigation button, such as Inheritance. But I can hardly imagine that none of these(I mean all the kindle active contents) apps are compatible with PW3. I think, at least apps compatible with PW2 must be compatible with PW3 as well.
I have the version 5.7.4.1, so can it run somehow azw2 apps or should I be satisfied with Keyboard compatibility?
Otherwise I usually read interactive fictions on Keyboard so I wondered if there is a way to use dictionaries for the texts of azw2 apps?
Thanks for your replies.