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Originally Posted by tomsem
I've stated this before, but I don't understand why people get Kindles hoping they will be to their liking without registering them. Inevitably they will not be. They're designed for people who like the walled garden experience, as I mostly do.
And jail breaking is a pain for most people, and with a Kindle, you can never enjoy convenience of wireless again without worrying it will undo. Koreader is not everbody's cup of tea (not mine anyway).
Get a Kobo or PocketBook.
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My Kindles
NEVER go online, anyway. They are
ALWAYS in Airplane Mode. With every device I have, be it a video game console or ebook reader, one of the first thing that I always do is jailbreak it. Mainly because I prefer for MY hardware to behave the way I want it to behave, not the way I'm TOLD it should behave. I do not register any device or software online. I do not allow devices or software to ever "phone home." And if something will not work with "phoning home" or otherwise requiring any cloud-based service, I do not use it. Period.
My original Kindle was the only exception that I've ever made to that rule, and that was because I was, at the time, downloading books from Amazon, so it just made sense. Once I realized, though, that not only were books that I had side loaded disappearing, but that everything I did was logged and sent to the mothership, I put a stop to that as well.
If you like the walled garden experience... that's great... for you. For other's, not much. Now that _I_ control MY device, I am much happier with it.