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Originally Posted by Tom Swift
Actually, with no 3g or azw, I think will wait until am back in Canada. Rumor has it that the kindle browser can bypass the Chinese firewall.
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Too bad. I was going to suggest we meet up.
Yeah, I've heard that rumor, too. But circumventing the firewall is as simple as logging into an anonymous proxy. For free proxies, kproxy.com seems to have pretty fast load times, but there are plenty of others. For $4-6/month you can subscribe to a for-pay proxy or set up a VPN that's completely transparent with almost no noticeable lag time. I've been surfing from home through such a service for the past couple of years, and almost forgot I'm not supposed to be able to access Facebook.
I can tell you that at $1400-1600rmb, the K3s at Meiluochun are running about 40% higher than Amazon.com's $US139, so that's another argument in favor of picking it up back home. But even if you do, take a look at the
Duokan FAQ here on MR. Duokan is an alternative firmware that adds significant functionality over the Amazon firmware (especially epub support and improvements in PDF handling). Best of all, it doesn't replace the original firmware, so you can bounce back and forth between them. The only obvious downside is that installing it violates Amazon's TOS. All the K3s at Metro City have Duokan preinstalled.
I've never considered a Kindle because of the lack of epub support. Duokan changes that equation.
OTOH, if you're not yet settled on a Kindle, you might want to poke around Metro City anyway; it's hard to imagine any place on earth where you can get hands-on with a wider variety of ereaders.
--Nathanael
--Nathanael