Published 2/25/2009
at Yahoo! News: Personal Technology
PC World - The concept of "hacking" the Kindle 2 hasn't gotten very far off the ground--Amazon's newest e-reader has barely seen the light of day. But even modifying Amazon's previous iteration of its portable electronic bookshelf has proved tricky at best. We haven't seen many physical hacks to the device, especially the oft-triumphed desire to turn the Kindle into a network bridge between your laptop and Amazon's Whispernet.
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