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Originally Posted by jondelfin
Not even sure why people buy the kindle in the first place and then complain it does not work as a can opener etc. It is a great READER!!! Enjoy it, and yes if you do not want it to read with, definitely find something else.
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The OP specifically said that they only wanted to read on their Kindle:
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Yes, I've seen those "why-don't-you-stop-whining-and-read" reactions before. I use an ereader to read, certainly. I happen to be very picky when it comes to fonts and all standard fonts on the Kindle are ugly. The only way to use your own font is to hack the device (ixtab made a brilliant hack for the KT).
And then the Glo: create a dir named "fonts", put in your font and bingo!
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I definitely wouldn't have bought a Kindle if it wasn't for the jailbreak/homebrew community. I won't fault Amazon for not including epub support, but their pdf handling on the Kindle Keyboard is pretty much unusable (I haven't been following the newer models closely enough to know if pdf handling has changed on them). Meanwhile, the homebrew community has created a GREAT pdf viewer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PauN_9O4dM&feature=plcp
Jailbreaking isn't just about turning your Kindle into a can opener. It's about filling in the holes as far as features go, and at least to me, being able to hack/jailbreak something is as much of a selling point as anything else (even though it's obviously not an "official" feature).