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That's awesome! Up until now the only reason I have jailbroken every kindle I've owned is to have the screensaver be the book I'm reading rather than the dull

by moonka 8y ago

That's awesome! Up until now the only reason I have jailbroken every kindle I've owned is to have the screensaver be the book I'm reading rather than the dull preset ones. Finally I've found reason 2!

WalterBright 8y ago
I'd like to be the current page of the book I'm reading!
- moonka 8y ago
  The screensaver hack allows you to do that.
  - pcmaffey 8y ago
    Instructions? Was looking a few months ago to no avail
    - anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
      If you have a firmware 5 kindle (Touch, Paperwhite, Voyage, Oasis), see the screensavers hack thread on Mobileread: > Dou you prefer to just show the last thing that was on screen, with an overlay indicating when the device's alseep? Just drop a blank file named last in the linkss folder. Restart your Kindle ([HOME] -> [MENU] > Settings -> [MENU] > Restart; or simply use the Screen Savers > Restart framework now button in KUAL), and you're done from https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195474 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195474 Obviously make sure you read everything (really, everything, including all the tiny text, even if it doesn't seem relevant) before you start.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  I.e. an option to disable the screensaver? :).
pard68 8y ago
Had not even thought of that. I rooted mine so I can remotely drop books into it without having to go get it and plug it into my computers. Also, the ability to read epub files is really nice.
- spaceandshit 8y ago
  You can email files to your kindle directly; although I just recently started using a kindle so I'm not sure if that's a new feature.
  - Vivtek 8y ago
    I got my first Kindle in 2012 and it already worked then, so not particularly new.
  - Arkaad 8y ago
    But there's a caveat: you lose the book cover in the process. I think Amazon does that intentionally.
- mrep 8y ago
  There is a send to kindle app [0] which has worked for every document I have ever tried and it works almost instantly. I use it a ton. It even works for epub books I have converted to mobi through calibre (doesn't work perfectly all the time but if you got some programming/hacking skills, you can make it work. I got a book that mobi kept trying to translate each paragraph into a separate page through a triple conversion from epub to single page html doc (then vim find/replace page breaks) and then to mobi). [0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle

by moonka 8y ago

WalterBright 8y ago

I'd like to be the current page of the book I'm reading!

moonka 8y ago
The screensaver hack allows you to do that.
- pcmaffey 8y ago
  Instructions? Was looking a few months ago to no avail
  - anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
    If you have a firmware 5 kindle (Touch, Paperwhite, Voyage, Oasis), see the screensavers hack thread on Mobileread: > Dou you prefer to just show the last thing that was on screen, with an overlay indicating when the device's alseep? Just drop a blank file named last in the linkss folder. Restart your Kindle ([HOME] -> [MENU] > Settings -> [MENU] > Restart; or simply use the Screen Savers > Restart framework now button in KUAL), and you're done from https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195474 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195474 Obviously make sure you read everything (really, everything, including all the tiny text, even if it doesn't seem relevant) before you start.
TeMPOraL 8y ago
I.e. an option to disable the screensaver? :).

pard68 8y ago

Had not even thought of that. I rooted mine so I can remotely drop books into it without having to go get it and plug it into my computers. Also, the ability to read epub files is really nice.

spaceandshit 8y ago
You can email files to your kindle directly; although I just recently started using a kindle so I'm not sure if that's a new feature.
- Vivtek 8y ago
  I got my first Kindle in 2012 and it already worked then, so not particularly new.
- Arkaad 8y ago
  But there's a caveat: you lose the book cover in the process. I think Amazon does that intentionally.
mrep 8y ago
There is a send to kindle app [0] which has worked for every document I have ever tried and it works almost instantly. I use it a ton. It even works for epub books I have converted to mobi through calibre (doesn't work perfectly all the time but if you got some programming/hacking skills, you can make it work. I got a book that mobi kept trying to translate each paragraph into a separate page through a triple conversion from epub to single page html doc (then vim find/replace page breaks) and then to mobi). [0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle