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Originally Posted by NullNix
Astonishingly, I agree with you. We have an existence proof: ixtab's hyphenation for mobis. That did all the work on the Kindle itself, and its performance and power impact (on a K4!) was so marginal that it was lost in the noise.
(What may have been impossible is things like enhanced page flip, which requires the ability to render nine pages at once, very fast. But, y'know... enhanced page flip is nearly useless because it's too small to read. I cannot imagine what Amazon were thinking when they implemented it, other than perhaps this would look cool in marketing demos.)
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I use page flip all the time. Even on small screens I can pick out the start of sections of dialog, chapter and section headings. I use it often because it is so easy to use. I'd call it a lock-in creating feature but I was already very much locked in to Amazon.
However, if somehow the ability to backup books ever went away completely, that would break the lock-in. Since I have old Kindles, I'm not too worried about that happening anytime soon. I'll worry about it and make my decisions when does happen.