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Originally Posted by stumped
only if your own flavor of OCD does not give you a hard time for having features that you cant use
maybe someone who had vowed to have nothing to do with amazon (which does make me wonder how they would buy the kindle) can convince themselves that registering with fake credentials is not a breach of principle, then at least they'd get collections enabled, and access to firmware updates
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In the US, this is actually doable since Best Buy, Target, etc. sell Kindles. Firmware updates can be done manually and it's actually pretty aggressive on automatic updates regardless of registration status so no need for fake credentials. Mind, there's nothing of interest for me in newer Kindle firmwares so I actively avoid those. You really only need to register if you need Kindle Cloud Collections and Send to Kindle/Kindle Personal Cloud.
Honestly, having to manually create and add books to collections suck so I find lack of Kindle Cloud Collections was no big loss anyway. For me, the collections is really mostly useful if it can be automatically managed with Calibre (or at least created on PC). In any case, my Kindles are jailbroken so this one's a non-issue.
Besides, my OCD wants complete segregation of my "normal" ebook and fanfic libraries so the unregistered, jailbroken PW fits the bill quite perfectly. I'll need to create a fake Kobo account so I can get that segregation when I buy a fanfic-only Libra H2O.