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Teardown of Kindle 2 by Nikkei Electronics Teardown Squad
Nikkei Electronics Teardown Squad have recently posted the story of the teardown of kindle 2 on their blog. Here is some detail of their observation:
They started to disassemble with the help of an engineer who is working for a Japanese device maker and well-versed in the design of electronic books.
The squad started breaking down both [...]
What customers complain about on “boycott forum”….Take a look
In relation to my last post, here I have compiled some comments from Amazon kindle forum “Boycott anything over $9.99″:
I don’t like what Amazon is doing playing with pricing. I’ve noticed the “new” Wally Lamb book is $16 and they raised the fourth Twilight book over $9.99
Ok, now I am mad! I looked for the [...]
Font mod tool for kindle 1
On the mobileread forum, lovebeta has just released a tool for kindle 1 (be careful, not for kindle 2) so that you modify the fonts that can render text in non-European languages. He uses “DroidSansFallback” font which “contains fairly complete unicode characters and is free”.
Accoring to him, “Due to the usage of symlink, you will [...]
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