Category: Kindle Hacks

Kindle 2 Hacked to Run Ubuntu

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Jesse Vincent who is responsible for a number of Kindle hacks in the past (such as Savory and tethering Kindle 2) managed to get Ubuntu Linux running on the Kindle 2. …

Poll about Kindle Downloader application

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I’ve been traveling in the UK for over a month now. One major pain point I encountered with Kindle is downloading periodicals and books to the device without WhisperNet connctivity.…

Download PDFs to Kindle DX Directly

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Although Amazon added native support for PDF to Kindle DX they didn’t add the ability to download these directly from the Internet. I believe that this feature was left out…

Kindle DX Screensaver Hack

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Folks at mobileread.com have updated their screen saver hack to work with Kindle DX. It allows you to replace default screen saver images (mostly of famous writers) that appear when…

Unicode Font Hack for Kindle DX

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Fine folks at the-ebook.org (translated version) have found a way to mod Igor’s python script so it can create valid custom updates for Amazon Kindle DX. I’ve compiled Kindle Unicode…

Kindle DX Disassembled

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It has been a while since Kindle 2 was disassembled and now Rapid Repair did the same to Kindle DX. Here’s the scoop of Kindle DX components: The battery is…

…First Kindle DX review

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Ok, lets pick up where we left off: My Kindle DX has just arrived… … Post #301… Exterior & Ergonomics Kindle DX is much larger and slightly heavier than Kindle…

ePub and PDF support

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To view ePub of PDF files on your Amazon Kindle normally you would need to use Amazon email conversion service (either free of $0.10 per document) or you could convert…

Unicode Fonts for Kindle 2 v0.1

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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…