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Kindle does not natively support Chinese, only Latin-1 characters and greek characters. There is a "hack" to install other fonts. There are only a limited number of hacks (mods) for the Kindle. There is one for screensavers, one for fonts. Those are the only ones that leap to mind. You could "brick" the device if you aren't careful. At one point, Amazon said something about providing an SDK for applications, but nothing seems to have come from it. I think possibly because the kinds of things people wanted to add to it would require modifying the base software, which they don't want to allow, for obvious reasons.
Sometimes the manufacturer updates the firmware to add new features, fix bugs, etc.
Most textbooks are going to be DRM-protected, so you'd have to remove the DRM in order to convert them to another format.
On a 6-inch screen, a lot of textbooks might not look very good, anyway. It will depend on the book.
I think some textbooks are available (from places other than Amazon or B&N) in PDF format, which you can easily read on a pc. Many textbooks are going to look better on a larger screen, anyway. Personally, I think the small e-readers are fantastic for leisure reading, but not really great for textbooks (unless you are a Literature major).
The browser on a Kindle is pretty limited, so I wouldn't count on it for much web access. It works best with mobile sites.
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