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kindle
To my surprise I'm now leaning strongly towards the kindle (4, non-touch). That came about because on reflecting about the spyware issue, I realize that while a report of spyware is a problem, what's worse is spyware that has not yet been reported. So I probably actually want a device where I can change it so that it doesn't have spyware, or so that spyware is not effective.
I also decided that native epub support isn't actually non-negotiable for me: I don't actually have a problem with converting them to amazon's format.
I found a video on youtube that shows sane PDF page turn behaviour in landscape mode (sorry, don't have the URL).
From my readings so far it looks like the kindle is rootable, and -- presumably due to its popularity -- is particularly hackable once rooted. Disabling networking via that route would solve the spyware issue (and make registration a non-issue for me) and at least give me the opportunity to put in some work to replace software with something that does what I want.
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