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Comment Re:Not even close (Score 1) 210

The PDF reading is ok, it just really depends on the pdf. For something like a PDF formatted to be 8.5x11 sheets, just text, it isn't too great, you have to be zoomed in and scrolling around is a little slow. I found the PDF viewer was great for converted to PDF powerpoint slides though. They usually have big text anyway, so once shrunk to kindle size, it was about normal readable size.

Comment Re:Not even close (Score 4, Informative) 210

(you can't read an eBook from any vendor other than Amazon on a Kindle),

And where exactly did you come up with this? The main problem is that it can't read ePubs, but you can load anything in a format it supports (txt, mobi, html, pdf if you are masochistic, etc....) via USB, and with some (txt, mobi I think are the only two), you can even download them using the experimental web browser from any store or website.

Comment Re:Right on Woz! (Score 1) 249

Let's put this in to a car analogy:

A person gets his car remapped. This can include things like unlocking a maximum speed set by the company. Consider this as the "jailbreaking" of the car. It is possible that the car company put that limit there in order to prevent excessive wear due to crazy speeds.

"But all I did was modify the software!". Nope, no warranty, since you put the engine outside of it's expected engine parameters. Maybe going extra fast made the engine really hot and melted it into a molten block of metal.

Same thing here.

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