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The title of the present thread is the quotation borrowed from the Gertrude Stein’s poem and it has nothing in common with this post. It was invented as a hook to catch the reader. If you read this text it means that I caught you. Isn’t that nice?

I own two e-readers: Kindle Touch and Kindle Paperwhite 2. Or maybe I don’t own none of them?

My first e-reader was Kindle Touch. I bought it soon after its premiere and then I updated the firmware on a regular basis. My girlfriend fell in love with this device when she saw it for the first time. She cried then: “I see my future birthday’s gift! I see my future birthday’s gift!”.

I lent my Kindle Touch to my girlfriend around the day of her birthday. Before I did it I tried to jailbreak the device and install Polish internalization files but I realized that Amazon releases the firmware which disables the jailbreaks always and improves something from time to time. So my girlfriend has Kindle Touch working in English version. I’m not sure she uses it. Some time ago I was forced to charge it before I installed the newest firmware on it.

I bought Kindle Paperwhite 2 soon after its premiere. At the very beginning I discovered that Amazon disabled the vertical swipes (from chapter to chapter). With Kindle Touch I was disappointed with its typographic capabilities. It forces the justification of the text and doesn’t offer the hyphenation at all. I learned how to force the alignment of the text to the left when I’m preparing my own MOBI files using Calibre but I’m not brave enough to convert all the books which I own with such a method so they look horrible. The disabled vertical swipes in the newest Kindle were too much for me. I stopped to believe in Amazon. So I decided not to update the firmware at all. Instead I’ll install on my brand new Kindle the jailbreak and the other necessary software.

Unfortunately the documentation is the weakest part of the developers’ corner here so there’s the risk that instead of improve my Kindle I’ll brick it definitively.

Now I’m busy because I finish my book. When the work will be done I’ll convert the book to MOBI format and I’ll start to sell it in Amazon. Then I’ll try to not brick my Kindle with the software made by the hackers.

So maybe I own two Kindles, or maybe my girlfriend owns one of them and I own the other, or maybe she has a Kindle and I have a prospect brick. Now you understand my doubts, I hope.

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