[clskier]

I never really had an interest in a Kindle for reading books, but lately I have a couple of cool ideas that I think the hardware is capable of. Before I buy one to try, I wanted to see if I'm off base here.

First, I have a program used for water-ski tournament scoring. This is an ancient program written in QBASIC. Tournaments are, of course, held outside. I thought the e-ink screen would be a perfect application for this, as laptops and/or tablets are very hard to read in the sun. Would it be very difficult to install dosbox on the Kindle, and run a QBASIC program? Could I use the Wifi to access my home network and print to my print server?

Secondly, I have been searching for an MP3 player with wifi so that I could leave it in my car at night and download podcasts every night. Short of buying an Ipod touch, I haven't been able to find one capapble of this. It struck me that I could probably install podget on the kindle, and accomplish this. Can the Kindle be used as an MP3 player (headphone out into the car stereo)?

I understand that these ideas will include some hacking. I have a basic knowledge of rooting and/or jail-breaking, and am running a Debian server at home.

Thanks