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Wow that's quite amazing, I had no idea the extent of Kindle homebrew community - but lol should have guessed, there's very few devices that are impervious to the modding community
Yeah, I was pretty shocked at just how well this homebrew OS works (looks like the whole thing runs off Linux so not a huge surprise in hindsight).
I also just discovered another thing the homebrew OS is good for: the original Kindle OS has no way to categorize books and just shoves all your books into one huge jumble and after about 20-30 books it would prolly be near impossible to find anything effectively... The homebrew OS on the other hand lets you properly categorize your books (serious WTF at Amazon not adding this ability considering it boasts: "can store up to 3500 ebooks", etc!!!
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I too am wanting a Kindle for mostly PDFs, also as a free global 3g web browser to avoid excessive roaming charges on my rare travels.
Ah cool, I misread what it said about the "Free 3G" and thought it was only free if you used it to d/l Amazon's content:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82570
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You *may* be charged a fee for wireless connectivity for your use of other wireless services on your Device, such as Web browsing and downloading of personal files, should you elect to use those services. We will maintain a list of current fees for such services in the Kindle Store.
But also from reading that thread it sounds like for anything other than the odd e-mail check it sucks and is too slow.
Really liking it so far, but waiting for my case to come to really give it a run for it's money (been waiting 2 years or so to get an e-reader after growing to hate reading PDFs from the screen more and more... Had been looking at
these before the DX came out, but sadly they went busto [also read some horror stories about them not being very well constructed and often breaking / ****ing up...]).
Juk