And I try to convince my family about it, but just cannot get it through to them that "kindle the tablet" and "kindle the ebook reader" are entirely unrelated products. What a terrible bit of branding.
I thought it as well, but then I bought a Kobo (Aura One back then) and I'm super happy. And it is much more hackable: there a countless patches to the official firmware, plus installing koreader is a piece of cake.