All this thread reminds me of those idiots who pride themselves on running Doom on pregnancy tests o whatever new shitware comes out of technosphere because yay for teh science I fucking love technology and hacking. What you don't understand, is what those e-readers are in principle and why you have to battle against their software. Well, the answer is simple. An e-reader device sole purpose is selling parent bookstore books, tracking your interests, seeling them to third party advertisers and selling you more books. Those shitty female novels about werevolves and vampires for wine aunts, it's the most selling shit on Amazon, B&N, Kobo, whatever. Women read these novels like you read hentai doujins and watch porn, these """books""" are the woman's porn, and e-reader is the fastest way of delivering them. Imagine if someone sold a locked-down single-function spyware device specifically for coomers branded by MindGeek or whatever porn conglomerate is out there, and we'd have a thread about side-loading exhentai databases instead of this one. E-reader is not a device for any serious reading, serious reading requires actual physical book, a notebook for notes or at least a full page spread on a wide screen, ability to do quick searches and jumps and a note-taking window, it's not a tablet for graphical software since those require adequate touch sensor-image latency, it's slow, slower than a old computer or even smartphone due to hardware limitations. Everything there is slow: the electrophoretic display is slower than LCD, cheap underclocked processor and Android OS slapped on top by lazy developers, to be honest, Amazon devices actually are the fastest e-readers out there simply because they can afford to develop custom Debian, so it's still probably the best choice for people looking for e-reader that doesn't shit itself on turning pages, you still can use it offline and side-load mobis or whatever webshit wrapper they're using these days.