Thanks all -- I picked up a Paperwhite this afternoon based on your input and am quite pleased with it. The hardware is better than I expected, and the TOC interface for periodicals is great. Since I bought it locally, it wasn't preregistered with Amazon, and I don't expect to register it.
I plan to get by without using WiFi until the firmware is compatible with the firewall eschwartz mentioned. As far as I can tell, the only features I'd be foregoing by using the firewall are "collections" (I doubt I'd need these, whatever they are, as I don't ever expect to have more than 20 active documents at a time) and Wikipedia lookups (this is a shame).
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
- Registration to Amazon is needed to manage collections. On a hacked device, this can be faked, also there is a firewall to block their servers.
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Can you let me know what the firewall is called or where I can read more about it? That's the sort of functionality I was hoping for, so I'm curious to see how hard it would be to set it up in practice (once version 5.4.3.2 is compatible).
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Originally Posted by pghaworth
3. Yes. I do this [automatically transfer new books in a Calibre library to a Paperwhite over a wifi network without going through Amazon's servers] all the time. There are are several ways to do this between Android devices and Kindle, only two for Kindle
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Can you let me know how you do this?