# PageDrop

> PageDrop is a free, open-source (GPL-3.0) Android app that sends books from your phone to an old, jailbroken Kindle running KOReader, over Wi-Fi, with no cable, no computer and no Calibre. It was built for the Kindles that lost Kindle Store access on May 20, 2026.

PageDrop is a phone-first companion for jailbroken Kindles running KOReader. You find a book on your phone, PageDrop converts it if needed, fixes its title, author and cover, and sends it to the Kindle through KOReader's built-in SSH server. Nothing extra is installed on the Kindle.

Background: on May 20, 2026 Amazon stopped Kindle Store access (buying, borrowing, downloading) on every Kindle and Fire tablet released in 2012 or earlier: Kindle 1 and 2, Kindle DX, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle 4 and 5, Kindle Touch and the first Kindle Paperwhite. Books already on those devices still work and sideloading still works. Many owners jailbreak them and install KOReader; PageDrop is the phone app for getting books onto them afterwards.

## What it does

- Search Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, the Internet Archive, Wikisource and your own OPDS catalogs from the phone
- Save books from websites in its built-in browser
- Convert EPUB, PDF (text PDFs, with reflow) and text to Kindle formats on the phone; an optional, self-hostable conversion server handles harder files after asking the user first (files deleted after about 24 hours, one switch keeps everything on the phone)
- Fill in title, author and cover from the file and open catalogs (Open Library; Google Books optional)
- Show, delete and copy back the books on the Kindle
- A "Get your Kindle ready" checklist that links to the Kindle Modding Wiki's jailbreak guides
- Key-based SSH login with pinned host keys; no account, no analytics, no ads

## Requirements

- Android 8.0 or newer
- A jailbroken Kindle running KOReader, with KOReader's SSH server switched on, on the same Wi-Fi as the phone
- Tested on a 2012 Kindle Paperwhite (firmware 5.6.1.1); other jailbroken Kindles running KOReader should work

## Get it

- [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/packages/app.pagedrop/): built from source and signed by F-Droid
- [GitHub releases](https://github.com/spandan-kumar/PageDrop/releases/latest): signed APK, also installable and updatable with Obtainium
- [Source code](https://github.com/spandan-kumar/PageDrop) (GPL-3.0)
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/cfsqhuHVfb) for setup help

## Guides

- [My Kindle can't reach the store anymore. What now?](https://spandan-kumar.github.io/PageDrop/old-kindle/): all the options, including USB + Calibre without a jailbreak
- [Send books to a jailbroken Kindle without a computer](https://spandan-kumar.github.io/PageDrop/send-books-without-computer/)
- [Kindle models](https://spandan-kumar.github.io/PageDrop/models/)
- [What leaves your phone](https://github.com/spandan-kumar/PageDrop/blob/main/docs/PRIVACY.md)

## Not

- Not affiliated with Amazon. Does not remove DRM and does not touch books bought from Amazon.
- Android only; there is no iPhone version.