So I've gotten the Kindle 2, I forgot how nice these devices feel in the hand. Some notes:
These outdated features can provide benefit to less tech-savvy users.
- Physical keyboard offers dedicated buttons for easier navigation (e.g., adjusting font size is a dedicated button, tactical buttons are better for kids/elderly?).
- Bulkier design provides a better grip, suitable for children and older individuals.
- Standout feature: text-to-speech functionality for seamless reading experience. I can absolutely see someone using this feature. Like an older person using it with a stand and the text to speech, font set to a large print, could be a real useful thing, despite the age of the device.
- Newer Kindles also offer text-to-speech but less user-friendly (hidden in submenus).
- Kindle Keyboard requires a simple two-button press for text-to-speech activation.
- Includes built-in speakers, no need for expensive Bluetooth headphones.
They can't connect to any type of network, which means as far as I can tell there's no way to update the clock time, which from what I can tell breaks the old jailbreaks, but I'm gonna test further, I might have done something wrong.
Libraries will come from sources like standard ebooks and be preloaded, I've found a lot of grey area stuff on archive.org (complete Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys for example) but I'd probably have that be a separate download for legal reasons, just recompile it to be easy to download from the archive.