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Originally Posted by JSWolf
When you put all the Readers sold together that are not from Amazon, there are more of them out there then Amazon. People buy other Readers because it's not Amazon. Amazon is not for everyone. It's not even for some that own a Kindle. The Kindle is one of the most fixed Readers out there in terms of hardware and software and Amazon is making it even more fixed by plugging the holes to allow for jailbreaks. Amazon doesn't want customers to customize. They want customers who take what they get like it or not. If Amazon had allowed reasonable settings, I might have gotten one.
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And believe it or not, most people actually WANT that.
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Yes, it might cost more. But given how much the parts cost and how much in bulk Amazon would buy, it would not raise the price much.
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So I shouldn't mind the additional price because "it's not much"...
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I know how Amazon doesn't work. Amazon doesn't give flexibility. They don't give much in the way useful settings while reading. They don't want you to side load fonts. When it was found out that Amazon left a hole in the system to allow side loaded fonts, they quickly patched it so that no longer worked. It's just proof that when there's something that users want that Amazon doesn't want to give, they take it away.
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In other words, you know everything there is to know about Amazon from the perspective of one who wishes to think badly of them.
The fonts hole has been known to lead to devastating crashes, in fact there are warnings plastered all over the intro to the fonts hack. I personally am thrilled that the fonts hack required jailbreaking to do -- it means people walk in with their eyes open.
What I am not thrilled about is their closing of the JB hole.
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What you don't transfer is reading locations and annotations. So those have to be looked up on the previous device.
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In that case, transfer the entire contents of the USB Mass Storage device that the Kindle shows up as -- just like I explained
HERE, that is a HORRIBLY LOUSY justification for the need for an SD card. It does adequately describe how even calibre has its faults... but so what? Use the other, fundamentally identical (in concept) mechanism for transferring the exact same stuff.
The only time when transferring directly form one device to another wouldn't work is if the device is catastrophically broken -- but the SD card can just as easily suffer the same flaw.
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People are buying now because it's what's out there. If they had a choice, I think they would go for the card slot even if it doesn't get used just to have it.
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It's what's out there because no one gives a darn enough to say they want anything else. People are voting with their wallets... they could've all gotten Kobos...