Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite e-reader comes with frontlit screen

Re:Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite e-reader comes with frontl... by kasbah on Thursday September 06, 2012 @05:41PM (#4486433)

I wonder if this actually makes it less easy on the eyes than regular e-ink.

I really like e-ink technology but the Kindle approach scares me a bit with it's reluctance to give me proper ownership over the device and content I buy.

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Re:Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite e-reader comes with frontl... by a_bonobo on Friday September 07, 2012 @12:36AM (#4487716)

I have bought only 3 books for my Kindle over Amazon -

I use calibre to convert all kinds of e-book-formats to mobi/azw on Fedora, then a USB-cable to transfer them over (I think WLAN works, too). 3G is never on. Calibre also has a plugin to remove DRM from Amazon-books so that the few ones I bought are actually mine.

You can also install alternative OSes like Duokan for even more control, haven't really tried that out - deinstalled an old version after a short bit of trying when the book was displayed "smudgy".

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Re:Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite e-reader comes with frontl... by tspiteri on Friday September 07, 2012 @04:36AM (#4488137)

Thank you for the pointer.

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