Hacks what can be done with an non-registered kindle 3?

[Tiersten]

Originally Posted by LDBoblo

it didn't have to go through any proxy that I'm aware of

If you're on the 3G connection then it will always go through an Amazon proxy to leave the Whispernet network. You can't not go through one if you want to use the Amazon provided 3G SIM as the Whispernet external gateway/firewall blocks any other external connections. If you're using WiFi then it will go out direct.

Originally Posted by LDBoblo

I only used it for Wikipedia, but that worked fine, including the article view.

Wikipedia + Kindle store should be accessible everywhere. Some countries have restrictions on going to other websites but that is down to cost of the data connection and not censorship by the local country or Amazon.

Article view is a local Javascript thing. It is based on Readability. Safari's Reader Mode is also based on the same script.

[edit]Hah. charonme gave me karma with the comment "off topic trolling". Classic. If you want to make snide comments to me then the karma system isn't the way to do it especially since it says who you are.

I'm still unsure why you're not getting the fact that everything works for an unregistered Kindle except collections which as you've pointed out can be hacked, the Kindle store and the syncing. Neither of which can be hacked for obvious reasons. Thats it for restrictions. Nothing else.[/edit]

[catsittingstill]

Originally Posted by TheKindleWorm

Yes you have to send them to your Kindle via your Kindle email address - you can't just place them on your Kindle as they won't be readable that way. With html files I read that you can change the extension to .txt and then place on your kindle and the formatting will still be there. However I've not tried this.

Well, yes, there is the automated conversion, but a kindle that has a Kindle e-mail address with Amazon pretty much has to be registered, right? And i thought the question was what would work with an unregistered Kindle?

FWIW, Stanza will convert .doc and .html files to .mobi, and you can then sideload them onto the Kindle. If Stanza won't do this anymore (I got my copy last year, before they got bought out) then I expect Calibre will.

[TheKindleWorm]

Originally Posted by catsittingstill

Well, yes, there is the automated conversion, but a kindle that has a Kindle e-mail address with Amazon pretty much has to be registered, right? And i thought the question was what would work with an unregistered Kindle?.

True ! But I was answering your original question literally which was:

"Huh? Kindles can read doc and html files now? When did that happen?"

[charonme]

To say a device supports some particular format "thru conversion" seems to me like deceptive advertising. The device itself doesn't support those formats.
Almost any format can be converted to any other format with varying degrees of accuracy and effort needed.
The correct statement should be that a particular service or a non-kindle SW can convert from some formats to some other formats that are supported by kindle or that kindle+amazon service or kindle + calibre on your PC support those formats. Kindle alone doesn't support them.

Anyway, I'm sorry for the original confusion and sorry for this rant

[catsittingstill]

Originally Posted by TheKindleWorm

True ! But I was answering your original question literally which was:

"Huh? Kindles can read doc and html files now? When did that happen?"

Yeah, exactly. Kindles are the devices. Which can't.

Thanks for mentioning the conversion service, though, I'm sure there are still people who don't know about it, and it's a handy thing to have.

[pjdfred]

The Kindle DX is in part targeted at business users and applications. Requiring registration with a personal (or worse yet, business) credit card, so that anyone using the device can incur charges on that card, is just so incompatible with many business uses that I don't even know where to start.

Requiring registration turns it from a business device into a personal device that can be used for business.

[jonj678]

Apologies for the necromancy here, but as this thread is a good one I don't mind dragging it back to the surface too much.

I hope that failing to register the device will prevent updates being pushed to it unexpectedly. So that's one potential reason. The other is that I expect to disagree with the terms & conditions one must agree to during registration,

For example, I'm fairly sure I disagree with some of the following:

Originally Posted by Amazon

No Reverse Engineering, Decompilation, Disassembly, or Circumvention. You may not (i) modify, reverse engineer, or disassemble the Kindle or the Software whether in whole or in part, (ii)... (iii) ...bypass, modify, defeat, or tamper with or circumvent any of the functions or protections of the Kindle or Software or any mechanisms operatively linked to the Software...

I have every intention of disassembling the device and persuading it to run software it wasn't intended to, and of butchering the mechanism by which it sends data to Amazon, I don't wish to agree to terms & conditions which I would break within minutes of hitting "OK".

These look like good forums, a lot of interesting information on them. Cheers