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Originally Posted by jocampo
The way Kindle works, some data needs to be stored on different servers. That helps with some features like identifying popular passages or paragraphs that have been highlighted for other people as well.
To be honest with you and because I'm in the IT world, most electronic devices collect some information of you no matter what and you will have to be a real computer guru if you want to block it. The most typical example is browsing Internet. Your IP, the pages you visit, when you visit those, the type of browser you have, even the type of computer, everything is logged on external web servers and it is legal in most countries. That's how some sites can recommend you some type of merchandise real time or even send you emails with deals you like.
I would not be worried about Amazon, legally they cannot or should not delete your books from your Kindle. Either way, you have a backup of your ebook library, don't you???  |
thanks for the explanation jocampo - just to be clear, my main issue is not Amazon erasing my books, rather I hate amazon knowing how fast I read, what bookmarks I put, etc.
@captainralf: ok, done the little test. Adobereader makes a mess of the physics file, while pdfviewer is ok.
Search: adobeviewer took about 55 second (I was counting in my head ) to complete the search of the word "neuron": the words are visualised in the column, and if you tap on them you are sent to the relevant page.
In Pdfviewer the same search took less than three seconds (if that), and all words are shown highlighted already in the page.
Bear in mind, though, that there is still an important bug in pdfviewer, namely that in landscape mode you cannot move from the top part of the page to the bottom part - so for the time being we are stuck in portrait mode.
EDIT: below the internal pictures of the files - first the physics in Adobeviewer, then the same in pdf viewer. Next two pictures are search mode and corresponding page in Adobeviewer, and the following two same thing for pdfviewer. Final picture is one page in pdfviewer with minimal zoom - non very visible.
As for light, what I meant was that whatever light is fine for a paper book, is also fine for the PB903, at least for me.