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Artha · 08-24-2011, 06:59 AM

I have broken the screen of my reader and, being short on cash, I think about Kindle 3 as being the cheapest I can reach for that kind of screen. Yet, I am uneasy about letting Amazon track me and my book reading habits. I do not need their bookstore as I already have a hard time digesting a huge library. So can this be done? As the design is quite limited (no expansion card) I would like to use the USB to feed it books and that's about it.

Out of curiosity: can Kindle DX have its Whispernet cut off also?

08-24-2011, 06:59 AM	#1
Artha ----- Posts: 114 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Samsung SNE65	Can I deactivate Whispernet in Kindle 3? I have broken the screen of my reader and, being short on cash, I think about Kindle 3 as being the cheapest I can reach for that kind of screen. Yet, I am uneasy about letting Amazon track me and my book reading habits. I do not need their bookstore as I already have a hard time digesting a huge library. So can this be done? As the design is quite limited (no expansion card) I would like to use the USB to feed it books and that's about it. Out of curiosity: can Kindle DX have its Whispernet cut off also?