For home automation, how much energy my solar system produces, birthdays, weather forecast. Stuff like that.

did you flash it or do you just use the browser?

I flashed it. Don’t know if always on works with the browser. But jailbreaking is easy and I think even reversible. Then you can ssh into it and even setup a cron to download a picture and refresh the screen.

that's cool

i may have a case to buy a kindle then

any model recommendations?