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Originally Posted by Quoth
If you sideload all your ebooks, even ones bought on Amazon (which doesn't need DRM removed if same Kindle as in downloads) what do you need the Kindle WiFi for? It will mess up covers, collections, gratuitously upgrade firmware or switch settings in firmware and potentially accidentally remove ebooks. You've agreed the browser/wiki is abysmal.
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I think it would be better to invite the people who side-load everything to jailbreak their Kindles, install KOReader and side-load every book through the Calibre Wireless connection plugin (which works extremely well, just yesterday I sent 200mb of content and it didn't even flinch
).
And I am not saying this as a way to say "frick you Amazon" (which is something a certain user in this thread
has stated so clearly they hate to read (they call it "Amazon Hater Noise") but is still posting here for some reason??), but because dealing with the aforementioned Kindle's issues both with offline/online devices it's simply not worth it.
Amazon by this point should know about this bug, that's clear. But doesn't want to fix it, because technically, fixing a content nuking issue that is caused by either side-loaded books or a drifted clock, doesn't necessarily give them money. It's easier to make users learn the hard way that side-loaded books are dangerous.
And in my opinion, unregistered (not banned) Kindles without internet connection, and unregistered Kindles with Internet connection are somewhat the same than offline account-registered Kindles are.
The difference with the latter is that someone has to pray every time they connect to the Internet, just so their library doesn't get nuked because of a drifted clock issue or because Amazon thought that one or two side-loaded books were mean to them.
Like yes, I do understand one can side-load everything again with kits but ahgg, that's too much of a hassle.
By that point, I think it's easier to jailbreak a Kindle than to deal with Amazon's antics. One either saves money for a Kobo/Pocketbook device in the meantime, or wait for their current firmware version to be jailbroken.
KOReader is not that bad after all.