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Originally Posted by ApK
This particular case is not exactly close to the edge of a slippery slope.
A Kindle is part of a relatively closed ecosystem, intended to be used as a consumer appliance by decidedly non-technical users who just want to click a button and read without worrying about wiping out critical functions with the accidental press of a key.
It's lovely that the Kindle can be extended by tech savvy hackers, but it's not stupidity if a typical Kindle user can't manage file systems. It's not a skill set required of the intended audience.
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Precisely. Common sense on Amazon's part to move critical files out of the user partition. Long-time members will remember, I'm sure, the number of people we used to get here complaining that they'd accidentally deleted the TTS files from their Kindle Touch. People do "play" with the USB-mounted partition, and saying "you shouldn't have done that" isn't an answer that will gladden the heart of someone who's just wiped out their laboriously-created collections.