I will resume my participation on this brand new and so enjoyable thread with some aside (forgive my poor sense of humor..). After all, asides are a new feature of EPUB3 - and maybe of KFX?
So I just exercise my right of answer for this:
About advertisment and truth.
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Well, it is very simple. Extraordinarily simple.
The Kindle does exactly what it is advertised to do. It reads books in the AZW3 format.
There are jails and jails... Naturally I am rooting for anyone who wants to unlock the jail and gain full control over their device.
But I have little sympathy for anyone who complains that it is necessary, yet isn't willing to do what it takes (currently: serial port jailbreak). Specifically, when they bought the device anyway, get burned when they should've known better (practicality always beats idealism), and then proceeds to complain about it in unrelated discussions.
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After that ponderous assessment, the fool (me) who already gets "no sympathy" (how surprising!) is supposed to shut up and go away with the head down. Gosh! What a hammering blow! How to disagree with that: "the Kindle does exactly what is advertised to do" in the front page (that 99.99% read) and even written in the small prints (that 99.99% don't read).
Yes. Indeed. I agree.
But if we look at the front pages advertisement, where you underline the two or three major selling features, can you expect any advertisement to be truthful? No more than for a cigarette pack, where they imply that it has a very nice taste, that smoking makes you look like a cow-boy or Humphrey Bogart, etc. It lies by omission: it "forgets" intently to tell you that it causes cancer. And so the law obliged the tobacco advertisers to write it on every pack after many millions of deaths.
Happily the Kindle will not give you cancer. Good for us because we own a Kindle. But Amazon does not put in the front pages that it's a jail (or a totally closed machine). It would take no place and be enough with one word.
So your above statement would be relevant if only the advertisement did no lie by omission as they systematically do. Please don't take advertisements at face value, don't "reference" any advertisement as the divine truth. To reverse your above remark, I would rather say that the dream of the advertisement always exceeds what the user gets practically.
About jailbreak
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"There are jails and jails",
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This is a nice one! As you can see, it made my day. Do you know that the reverse is true? Thank you.
When all the previous versions of the Kindle software except the current one have been jailbroken, is it really "foolish" to expect to see it broken someday, specially when everybody knows the zeroday has already been found in September and announced? Be kind with me: I would say it's just optimistic. Next month, if the jailbreak is published, what will you say?
For the current state of 5.6.5., since I have the choice, I have rather read books on Kobo/Koreader than on Kindle. It has been my informed choice for the last three months and it does not make me cry.
OK, now I'll go back to hyphenation.
Thanks to dickoraine for a very informative and balanced post (number 42). It sums it up.