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First I heard of Kindles having Linux installed on them, I'm too excited by hackable e-ink device. Seems like Kindles will have more legs than a dated iDevice.
by simonmales 6y ago
First I heard of Kindles having Linux installed on them, I'm too excited by hackable e-ink device.
Seems like Kindles will have more legs than a dated iDevice.
I've never owned a Kindle, are they priced below their pure hardware cost? If so they suddenly become very tempting.
I don't know what I'm looking at but it looks like the current generation is around 50 Euros.
- gh02t 6y agoThere's been a whole ecosystem of homebrew Kindle software on and off for a while, some of which add some nice functionality like a better PDF reader. Not sure about current status of efforts, but I played around with it a few years ago and it was reasonably lively back then. Amazon offers a "subsidized" version with some minimal ads that is $20 cheaper, that suggests to me that they are selling it at cost or at least near it. Incidentally, I kinda like the ads... they aren't intrusive (to me at least) and they have actually have given me some decent recommendations before.
- powersnail 6y agoKeep the ads! At least they are book covers. The non-ad version has horrible lock screen images.
- Stratoscope 6y agoAgreed, I've discovered a few interesting books thanks to the ads. And they are no more intrusive than the non-ad lock screens.