Experimentation paid off - documents added to eBook reader.
My Kindle can read PDF's and most electronics come with their documentation on PDF these days, I thought that was pretty cool, but really, PDF's are to rigid, they suck on a screen as small as a normal Kindles. It's handy to put the manuals on there anyways, but there's too much hunting and scrolling
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I do believe in FOSS when possible. There's certain things you pay for - entertainment is one of them, that's not to say there isn't a lot of really good free entertainment out there. Getting things done works best when everyone can do it, not just a few people. If I make something work I want to be able to tell everyone else how to make it work and if I tell someone else I don't expect to have to buy something, it looks like I'm getting a kickback and it creates suspicion in many cases. Also a lot of paid for stuff winds up being "stolen" GPL stuff anyways, there's many people selling repackaged copies of Gimp, Libre Office, VLC and Handbrake on eBay. Some of them comply with the GPL but make a few bucks, many don't.
Here's an example of a very good how to I did quite some time ago, be sure to read the follow up. I did this to help other parents who I hope have found the post, since parents usually don't have a lot of money to spend on scratched up disk or extra software.
I do gravitate heavily towards FOSS as a way of life, but I'm not 100% strict, and I actually do donate on occasion. The most recent thing I donated to was actually a guy who put up bicycle how-to videos and had a panhandle, I used to buy boxed copies of SuSE linux even though it was free just to give back to the project and when I bought that UMD ripper I paid double the asking price even though I didn't have to. So I'm weird, I would rather pay for something that's free than pay for something they charge me for.
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