Does anyone even still use a Kindle?
I wouldn't feel comfortable using a device that's contents can be remotely and silently memory-holed at any time.
I wouldn't feel comfortable using a device that's contents can be remotely and silently memory-holed at any time.
Only pretty much everyone I know who buys e-books. For them Kindle is synonymous with e-book reader.
The good thing about Kindle is that everything you buy from the Amazon-store can easily and almost automatically have its DRM stripped.
That's not true (or at least not near as seamless) for any other sort of DRMed e-book solution I've seen.
As to your other question, I still use a Kindle. I buy books from various places, but I always put it in Calibre and create a non-DRMed mobi file from the DRMed version. I would not buy a book where I could not strip the DRM.
At least with my kindle, only the books that I bought via amazon and did not liberate from DRM are affected, so the risk is fairly low that it will nuke something really important.
Sure. I have daily Titanium Backup runs going offsite. Not even google/CM can touch those.
I also use CM, who are very good at reversing google's anti-privacy changes (personally, I think they should fork android entirely, but that's another conversation).