Category: Kindle 2 Hacks
Unicode Fonts for Kindle 2 v0.1
Patches were tested by several volunteers and all results were positive. The patch works and doesn’t cause any problems. You can now read books on your Amazon Kindle 2 in…
Cyrillic Kindle – Beta testers needed!
Update: Testing is completed. You can download release version of the hack here: Kindle Fonts Hack. After quite a bit of tweaking I was able to create a patch that…
Amazon uses DMCA against MobileRead.com for hosting DRM Python Script Instructions
Engadget reports that undisclosed law firm on behalf of Amazon.com sent cease and desist letter to MobileRead.com admins demanding pages that host instructions on how to use Python script that…
Kindle 2 Screensaver Hack
For people who wanted to replace author pictures in Kindle 2 Screensaver with any pictures of their own there is now a solution. clarknova from MobileRead Forums created a custom…
Updating Kindle Firmware
After my last post about custom Kindle firmwares possibly making appearance soon, I received several emails with questions on how official firmware updates should be applied. Indeed there is very…
Reflashing Kindle 2 with custom firmware may soon be a reality.
It looks like Jesse Vincent has found a way to re-flash Kindle 2 with custom hand-made firmwares. At the moment he’s not uncovering any details of the process. Hopefully, he…