[alexTheFool]

Hi all, nice to meet you here.

I have just brought a second hand kindle 2. It is a nice reader. I have several questions about the installation of new software.

1. there are quite a number of ebooks already in the reader when i brought it. it belongs to last user. although i can now read it in the reader, i am worrying if i update the software, i will lost them. Is it the case? btw, is there any ways for me to "own" the books?

2. the owner installed the font hacks for me to read Chinese, should i remove the hacks before the update? or could just install the update and let the hacks be over-written, then i can install the hack again?

3. if unfortunately, there is something wrong during updating, would the reader be locked or becoming unusable? just like the firmware update failure in other kinds of devices?

thanks a lot.

alex