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If you have 1.0.03.09110, please DO NOT upgrade to 1.0.05 and if you want to upgrade to 1.0.04 - also do not use the current one from Sony, but rather you can take a safe one from here:
http://projects.mobileread.com/reade...ReleasesT2/FW/
There you can take the safe version of 1.0.04.11081 for US or EU model whichever you need.
Then you will still be able to root your T2 later.
As to rooting, it is pretty safe and there should be no problems.
JailBreak and installing AMR is very safe.
There are couple of optional (but very useful) steps involving re-partitioning.
Those steps could be dangerous if you experiment yourself and don't know what you are doing. But here, it is ready made and already tested many times and therefore is safe too.
The most dangerous thing is restoring back from full backup. It should not be needed, but if it is needed, it is important that your computer does not hang at a critical time while writing a couple of small partitions into T2.
Again, putting it into perspective:
- rooting T2 does not involve the restoring from backup step, it is not needed, but could be needed if you decide to go back to the unrooted version or if some serious problem occurs and you cannot fix it any other way (there should not be such a problem).
- if you do need to restore from backup, it only takes a few minutes
- and during those few minutes, the critical time is a very small part of those few minutes, only when writing boot and recovery partitions, so seconds rather than minutes.
So, in theory, if you ever need to restore (you will probably not) and if during the restoration process your computer hangs, and it happens not at any time but only during writing those two rather small partitions, then you may be in trouble.
So it really never happens.
But if you need to write from backup to T2, better do it after fresh reboot of your PC with no unnecessary programs running, it would be good to use UPS if the power suddenly goes off, etc.
So you see - rooting T2 is really absolutely safe, restoring back is only theoretically dangerous, but otherwise - safe.
As to color - I think that color tablets with new screen technologies will soon appear - with reflective screens that can be used in sunlight and with reduced power consumption. How good they will be for reading books? Probably not as good as e-ink, but better than iPad.
As to color covers - it is a big deception, really.
A cover is not an integral part of a book, because the same book often has many different covers for different editions and from different publishers. So that proves, that cover means nothing. Which cover to choose to add to your book?
I prefer without any covers, so the files are smaller.