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Originally Posted by cvkemp
I guess I must be about the only one that doesn't care about a bunch extra stuff on my Kindle, I just read my books, and go on the next book. I believe in the old concept of keep it simple.
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That is the explicit purpose of the Kindle and has been since day 1, so I guess you're in luck!
(The irony is, the device the Kindle was internally codenamed after -- and the reason why the name "fiona" hang around its internals for years -- the hyperadvanced contraption in Stephenson's _A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer_, was much less just like a book and much more a massive multimedia experience that would teach you everything you needed to know, whether you knew you needed to know it or not, responding to what you did on it in all sorts of ways which make Amazon's page-by-page logging seem utterly noninvasive -- only the Primer wasn't doing it to try to flog you more stuff but to make you a better person. I'm not sure if that doesn't make it even *more* creepy.)