[Gilbamesh]

Sorry about unearthing an apparently long since retired thread, but hope is hard to die.

A book addict since over half-a-century, it still irritates me when someone tries to peek over my shoulder while I'm reading: the relationship between the book and myself is of a very private nature.

Why? Hell if I know, it probably sinks its roots in my remote childhood when my parents used to verify that I only read 'approved' material, anything else being forbidden, excommunicated and punished accordingly as a matter of principle.

Be what it be, I've recently become the happy (just a figure of speech) owner of a brand new Kindle and now I must either make sure that Amazon don't peek over my shoulder, or that the new gadget gets buried as deep as possible in the garden.

Quite obviously I've been very careful not to activate its wireless connection, not to mention creating an Amazon account; but that's just a software option that can be circumvented in 1001 fancy ways - think e.g. of a trojan and of what it can turn on in your computer without you even suspecting it.

My question: where can I look for a reasonable certainty that the confounded thing won't sneakily call home and blab about my private business right under my nose?

The one who comes up with a good suggestion wins an excellent Bavarian beer :-)