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Old 03-14-2014, 10:28 AM   #4
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Device: Kindle PW2
Quote:
Originally Posted by harryt
It just is. I guess it's an incentive to register. Any particular reason not to do so?
Primarily to prevent data exchange with Amazon (at least I hope that there is no data exchange when the device is unregistered). They do not need to know what I am reading, or have access to e.g. deleting books, as happened in the past if I recall the news correctly.

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Originally Posted by dsmid View Post
It's because this line in config.xml of wikipedia.acx:
Code:
<kindle:requiresRegistration>true</kindle:requiresRegistration>
Kindle doesn't communicate directly with Wikipedia, it uses these two Amazon service points:
Code:
https://wiki-acx.amazon.com/V1/wiki
https://wiki-acx.amazon.co.uk/V1/wiki
It should be easy to change the parameter to false and rebuild the ACX, if you want to give it a try.
I will give this a try (first I'll have to check out how to actually do that :-) I suppose https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Touch_ACX applies to the PW2 as well?)
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