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Reading Glasses

Ep 423 - Is Jailbreaking Your eReader Worth It?

Reading Glasses

Maximum Fun

Leisure, How To, Book, Books, Hobbies, Advice, Reading, Education, Author, Arts, Book Tech, Library, Audiobook, Writer

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory discuss jailbreaking ereaders, figure out when to look at the photo section of a celebrity memoir, and recommend funny sci fi.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

0:12.4

I'm author and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.

0:14.3

And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

0:16.4

This episode, we're talking about jailbreaking your e-reader.

0:19.9

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What music is that? It's Jill breaking the law by Jesus Priest. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, great. Do it again. Miao, no, no, no, no, no, no. I love it. We're dancing. We're asking you, when we're trying to see whether or not it's worth the time. We may have had some trouble with this. So stay tuned.

0:38.8

Plus, we talk about... We're asking you, and we're trying to see whether or not it's worth the time. We may have had some trouble with this.

0:40.6

So stay tuned.

0:44.7

Plus, we talk about when to look at the photos in a celebrity memoir. Such a glass or question.

0:45.9

And by the way, we have expert advice from Chelsea Devontes on this one.

0:50.9

And we recommend funny sci-fi books.

0:53.5

But first, Brea, what are you reading? I am listening

0:56.5

to a book called Girl on Girl, How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves.

1:02.5

Speaking of Chelsea DeVantas. By Sophie Gilbert. Did she do this book? She's doing it for her

1:08.4

Patreon right now. Oh, she is? Yeah. Oh, we should talk about it. I didn't

1:12.1

know that. Wow. I'm not very far into it, but I'm listening to it. It's a great listen. And it's

1:16.5

basically about exactly what it says, about how there was this time where we were like,

1:21.2

feminism, yay, but it was, it's somehow backfired. And it's sort of a reevaluation of that sort of late 90s early

1:30.1

2000s into like the Otts era so very big lot of girl on girl hate lot of calling each other

1:37.2

fat so much girl and girl hate right now I'm sort I'm in the celebrity era we've recently

1:44.0

decided to say we're sorry to all of the celebrities, Jessica Simpson

1:47.7

and Britney Spears and all the celebrities.

1:50.5

Melanie Linsky.

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