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Old 01-09-2015, 09:45 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Could you explain what the purpose would be of doing that? If you place any value whatsoever on your time, and you want a general-purpose eInk tablet, you'd be much better off simply buying such a device in the first place. Buying a Kindle, then trying to turn it into something it's not would appear to be something of an exercise in frustration .
Yup - that is a valid point.

But doing it as a hobby project would not put a real value on the time spent.
And, yes, this is talking about a **lot** of time.

Plus, due to the lack of hardware documentation, it would have to be done in a country with very liberal views on reverse engineering.

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