[combine1237]

Hello, and thank you for clicking on this thread. First I apologize for opening a new thread on this subject, but I am going(within 1-3 days) to purchase an e-reader, and there are some items I am unsure of when comparing these two e-readers.

1. The first object of contention is the difference in the two touchscreen technologies, the infrared touchscreen on the Glo and the capacitive touchscreen on the Paperwhite. I have yet to find a local store in my area that has working models of either to test the responsiveness and accuracy of their screens. Can anyone confirm how the two stack up against each other and if there are that many differences(excluding the brightness and slightly different colors).

2. It strikes me that amazon seems to love the walled garden approach with their kindles and does not support near as many formats as the Kobo does. If one jailbreaks a kindle will it support the same formats as a Kobo does effectively, could you turn the light off using a KUAL application, and are jail-broken Kindle Paperwhites stable and legal.

3. Finally, can one connect a usb(by micro-usb adapter) or micro-usb card to the Kindle Paperwhite before and/or after it is jaibroken.

About myself: I have never owned an e-ink device and have no pre-existing collection of e-books. I do enjoy reading books and am tired of my eyes tiring after reading on lcd screens after long periods of time.

Thank you for reading this and any knowledge, possible answers, thoughts, advice, so forth on my questions and the subject would be immensely appreciated.

Edit: Sorry, I live in the U.S.