I honestly think that amazon removed a lot of these features to make things more simple for their typical customer. I've spent many many many hours helping people on the kindle forum and kindle help forum on amazon. From what I've seen there and with people I know in person, the majority of users barely know how to do the most basic of functions on their kindles. More options would honestly confuse them. Honestly, plenty of people don't even understand what WiFi is and how it works. They haven't the slightest idea what an SD card is...
I love some of the features I've heard of for the kobo, but I am an admitted amazon fangirl, and I have too much of my life currently tied into the amazon ecosystem (including around 3000 ebooks). I also personally feel that amazon has the best store/infrastructure, so while I think some other devices have advantages over the kindle, I am sticking with the kindle ecosystem for now.
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