Agatha Christie, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #17
Agatha Christie is often referred as the “Queen of Crime”, due to the crime novels and short stories featuring the famous detectives Hercule Poirot and and Miss Jane Marple. Lots…
Amazon Kindle in more libraries
In May I wrote a post about library usage of Amazon Kindle. Recently Lone Wolf Librarian did a more thorough search and uncovered at least 15 libraries that lend Kindle…
Kindle 2 Drop Test
While I’m on the topic – here’s Kindle 2 drop tested the same way as other Kindles – 30″ on some kind of hard surface. Click on the image to…
Kindle DX Drop Test
In case you were wondering how durable Kindle DX is… Click on the image and watch. I’ve done some measurements on screenshots and it looks like it’s being dropped from…
Joseph Conrad, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #16
Joseph Conrad is famous not only for his works adapted into well-known films such as Apocalypse Now and Sabotage; he also stands out as he was a Polish-born novelist who…
Kindle DX to have WiFi in the future?
Kindle DX was taken apart by RapidRepair.com recently. Kindle Zen took a closer look at these photos and suggested that Kindle DX’s PCB is wired for WiFi chipset and antennae.…
Kindle DX Screensaver Hack
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
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…
Arthur Conan Doyle, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #15
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL was a British author born to an English father of Irish descent and an Irish mother. Though having chosen the profession of a physician…
Unicode on Kindle DX via PDF
With Kindle 2 if you wanted to read books that contain non-English characters like Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew etc you had several options: Use Kindle unicode font hack to replace…