Re: Re: Kindle? Other Hardware? How to Choose

["Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>]

On Mon, March 19, 2012 10:42 am, Nancy Allison wrote:
>    Great. great information. Thanks, everyone.
>
>    --Nancy
>

One other "feature" to be aware of:  I was given a Kindle (basic model)
this holiday season as a gift.  If you pay the basic price, it displays
ads when not in use (and even when powered off).  These are local ads.  If
you pay $30 more, or you pay $30 after the fact, you can get an ad-free
experience.

Initially, I was bothered by the ads. I used Google to find a hack to
remove them.  Great -- then when it would have shown an ad, it now showed
one of a series of images having to do with writing (like a group of
pencils).

Then, I accepted an update from 4.0 of the Kindle software to 4.0.1.  Now
the hack seems to have been countered -- at least the set of instructions
that users now say will remove the ads again -- is considerably longer. 
I've not gotten bothered enough to try following the new instructions.

My advice -- if someone GIVES you a Kindle that is ad-supported, pay the
additional ransom to get the ads removed.

--Guy K. Haas
  Software Exegete in Silicon Valley


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