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Amazon is still offering Kindle's with lifetime cellular connectivity [1]. I'm not sure what kind of arbitrage possibilities exist here... [1] https://www.amaz

Amazon is still offering Kindle's with lifetime cellular connectivity [1]. I'm not sure what kind of arbitrage possibilities exist here... [1] https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-Paperwhite-Waterproof-Storage/dp/B075RNKT6G/ https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-Paperwhite-Waterproof-...

abdullahkhalids 6y ago
I imagine they track usage and block accounts that abuse the service.
TylerE 6y ago
Pretty limited. The cellular connection only connects to amazon.com and Wikipedia
- tppiotrowski 6y ago
  The Kindle also comes with an "Experimental Browser". [1] I've used it on an old Kindle to read the news, craigslist. I'm not sure if it supports JS. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q7eHUI6rSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q7eHUI6rSo
  - vlunkr 6y ago
    It's been probably a couple of years, but I tried to load HN in it once and it was unreadable, so I don't think it's too great.
    - Tijdreiziger 6y ago
      I read HN on my Kindle's browser fairly regularly. HN itself (and similar pages with a simple layout, such as i.reddit.com) works great. For the articles that are linked, it's a coin flip whether it works or the page has so much cruft that it crashes the browser.
    - skykooler 6y ago
      I used to use the built-in browser to load Google Voice and Google Talk and they worked fine. Of course, this was before they were overhauled into bloated, JS-heavy pages that barely run on non-Chrome mobile browsers.
  - pro_zac 6y ago
    I once drove 10 hours to visit a friend but my phone was dead on arrival. I had his address but no apartment number. I used the Kindle experimental browser to message him on facebook.
  - wwweston 6y ago
    The big problem with the Experimental Browser on my beloved Kindle DX is that it doesn't seem to support tls/https. Otherwise I'd use it a lot more.
- roberto 6y ago
  You can write a proxy that creates a new page on Wikipedia with the requested URL. A remote machine then monitors the page, downloads the URL, and adds to a new Wikipedia page.
  - Wowfunhappy 6y ago
    I think the Wikipedia editors would ban the proxy's IP pretty quickly for making junk pages.

abdullahkhalids 6y ago

I imagine they track usage and block accounts that abuse the service.

TylerE 6y ago

Pretty limited. The cellular connection only connects to amazon.com and Wikipedia

tppiotrowski 6y ago
The Kindle also comes with an "Experimental Browser". [1] I've used it on an old Kindle to read the news, craigslist. I'm not sure if it supports JS. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q7eHUI6rSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q7eHUI6rSo
- vlunkr 6y ago
  It's been probably a couple of years, but I tried to load HN in it once and it was unreadable, so I don't think it's too great.
  - Tijdreiziger 6y ago
    I read HN on my Kindle's browser fairly regularly. HN itself (and similar pages with a simple layout, such as i.reddit.com) works great. For the articles that are linked, it's a coin flip whether it works or the page has so much cruft that it crashes the browser.
  - skykooler 6y ago
    I used to use the built-in browser to load Google Voice and Google Talk and they worked fine. Of course, this was before they were overhauled into bloated, JS-heavy pages that barely run on non-Chrome mobile browsers.
- pro_zac 6y ago
  I once drove 10 hours to visit a friend but my phone was dead on arrival. I had his address but no apartment number. I used the Kindle experimental browser to message him on facebook.
- wwweston 6y ago
  The big problem with the Experimental Browser on my beloved Kindle DX is that it doesn't seem to support tls/https. Otherwise I'd use it a lot more.
roberto 6y ago
You can write a proxy that creates a new page on Wikipedia with the requested URL. A remote machine then monitors the page, downloads the URL, and adds to a new Wikipedia page.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  I think the Wikipedia editors would ban the proxy's IP pretty quickly for making junk pages.