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roger64 · 01-03-2016, 07:11 AM

Two more points if I may

About "featureful firmware"

If I am not mistaken, the main purpose of these ebook readers is to facilitate reading. Should I congratulate Amazon to have at long last discovered in 2015 that hyphenation existed? We had to wait the release of KFX format for this.

But, wait, if you convert now your EPUB to Kindle format, you'll convert at best to azw3 because kfx is still undocumented. So you'll need a second conversion run with "hyphenate this" to add this feature. In short you need the equivalent of a walking stick.

For Koreader, do you know that hyphenation works automatically for all EPUB? (at least in many languages, among them English and French). We just have to select a configuration file.

"Featureful"... mmm. We have to take your words with a grain of salt.

About "being cautious"

Then you tell me "And I would be cautious about buying a device that doesn't have the capability out of the box to do what I want it to do."

I am afraid this statement does not make much sense: the choice is buying the PW3 before or after the jailbreak has been released.

- If I buy the PW3 after the 5.6.5 jailbreak has been released, it may very probably be too late because at that time Amazon will have plugged this awful security hole and the jailbreak will not work anymore with the new firmware version.
- If I buy it before... well, I just did it. Too early?

So, dear, cautious, sure, when?

01-03-2016, 07:11 AM	#2
roger64 Wizard Posts: 2,625 Karma: 3120635 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle PW3 (wifi)	Two more points if I may About "featureful firmware" If I am not mistaken, the main purpose of these ebook readers is to facilitate reading. Should I congratulate Amazon to have at long last discovered in 2015 that hyphenation existed? We had to wait the release of KFX format for this. But, wait, if you convert now your EPUB to Kindle format, you'll convert at best to azw3 because kfx is still undocumented. So you'll need a second conversion run with "hyphenate this" to add this feature. In short you need the equivalent of a walking stick. For Koreader, do you know that hyphenation works automatically for all EPUB? (at least in many languages, among them English and French). We just have to select a configuration file. "Featureful"... mmm. We have to take your words with a grain of salt. About "being cautious" Then you tell me "And I would be cautious about buying a device that doesn't have the capability out of the box to do what I want it to do." I am afraid this statement does not make much sense: the choice is buying the PW3 before or after the jailbreak has been released. - If I buy the PW3 after the 5.6.5 jailbreak has been released, it may very probably be too late because at that time Amazon will have plugged this awful security hole and the jailbreak will not work anymore with the new firmware version. - If I buy it before... well, I just did it. Too early? So, dear, cautious, sure, when? Last edited by roger64; 01-03-2016 at 07:43 AM.