"The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds." ~ Frederick William Robertson
This is a little tutorial on how I go about making screen-saver images for my Kindle. These can be used to replace (or add to) the so-called “dead author” screen-saver (a.k.a. sleep screen) images that come with your Kindle. To use them, you will need to install the screen-saver “hack”, however. Those of you who [...]
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For additional information on the installation of the Kindle 2.5.x-compatible font and screen-saver hacks, I would like to direct your attention to a couple “wiki” articles at MobileRead.com:
Kindle Font Hack for all 2.5.x Kindles
Kindle Screen Saver Hack for all 2.5.x Kindles
These articles present a clear, step-by-step explanation of the installation process, including a number of [...]
This morning I managed to capture the binary file for updating the Kindle 2 US from 2.5.2 to 2.5.4. If you have a US version Kindle 2 but do not have wireless access or are just impatient, you can download the file, save it to your Kindle in the top-level directory (i.e. not in any [...]
Thanks to NiLuJe’s efforts and the initial testers, we now have screen-saver and font hacks (and the associated “jail-break” hack) for the new “Graphite” version of the Kindle DX. I have accordingly updated the Zip files in the 2.5 screen-saver and font hack threads in this blog. For those who know what they’re doing and [...]
The latest version of NiLuJe’s Kindle 2.5-compatible screen-saver hack has some changes to where the screen-saver images are stored. The installation process is now very similar to that of the 2.5-compatible font hack (see “Installing Update/Hack Files on Your Kindle” for general instructions on installing patch/hack files):
Install the “jail-break” hack first. This only needs [...]
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NiLuJe posted some updates to the 2.5.x-compatible screen-saver and font hacks yesterday. For information, please read his updated post at MobileRead.com. I updated the link in my recent font hack article, but I either need to create a new article on the screen-saver hack or do some moderate editing to the original, as there are [...]
As a follow up to the “Kindle Font Hack Samples” and “Font Hack for Kindle Version 2.5” articles, I decided to consolidate the various font zip files and sample images in one place.
As more fonts and/or sample images are provided I will add them to “Kindle Font Samples“, a page you can access directly [...]
Here are screen shots to provide a quick comparison of some of the fonts available via the latest font hack for the 2.5 Kindle firmware version. Click on an image to download the applicable font Zip file. See my “Font Hack for Kindle Version 2.5” for directions on how to install the hack and change [...]
NOTE: People have been reporting occasional problems with their Kindle “freezing” or the menus not functioning correctly during this installation. With the latest version of this hack, you can avoid this problem by using the “‘reboot’ file” technique described below. In a worst case situation, you can always do a hardware restart by holding the [...]
Hey, you. Yeah, you with the Kindle. Need some screen-saver images? I got some for ya, real cheap, too. Just follow this link, and you’ll get a page full of ‘em. All ya gots to do is right click on ‘em to save your own copy, or left click ‘em to see ‘em full-sized.
Great, so [...]
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