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Originally Posted by ixtab
Generally, if you're only using the device (i.e. if you only used tested and verified methods to modify your device), and don't poke around a lot in the system internals by yourself, the risk of a real FUBAR brick is low. And even then, there is always a remedy.
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There have been a LOT of reports of official amazon updates bricking kindles that did not have any jailbreak or hacks installed.
There have also been reports of bricks caused by registering a newer kindle to an amazon account that has too many books linked to it. Something as symbol as synchronizing your kindle to your amazon account can apparently brick a kindle (probably caused by the 30MB persistent user storage limitation).
The debricking tools have been downloaded MANY hundreds of times, so I think that a most of successful debricking goes unreported, and a lot of this happens to people who use their kindles ONLY to read books.