Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle

Re:Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle by moonka on Saturday August 04, 2018 @06:49PM (#17688810)

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!

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Re:Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle by pard68 on Saturday August 04, 2018 @08:17PM (#17689045)

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.

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Re:Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle by mrep on Sunday August 05, 2018 @02:58AM (#17690115)

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

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Re:Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle by spaceandshit on Saturday August 04, 2018 @08:29PM (#17689082)

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.

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Re:Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle by Arkaad on Monday August 06, 2018 @08:06PM (#17702848)

But there's a caveat: you lose the book cover in the process. I think Amazon does that intentionally.

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Re:Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle by Vivtek on Sunday August 05, 2018 @12:12AM (#17689618)

I got my first Kindle in 2012 and it already worked then, so not particularly new.

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Re:Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle by WalterBright on Saturday August 04, 2018 @07:30PM (#17688929)

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

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Re:Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle by moonka on Saturday August 04, 2018 @07:39PM (#17688952)

The screensaver hack allows you to do that.

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Re:Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle by pcmaffey on Saturday August 04, 2018 @08:42PM (#17689116)

Instructions? Was looking a few months ago to no avail

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Re:Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle by anowlcalledjosh on Sunday August 05, 2018 @01:00PM (#17692211)

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

Obviously make sure you read everything (really, everything, including all the tiny text, even if it doesn't seem relevant) before you start.

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Re:Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle by TeMPOraL on Sunday August 05, 2018 @07:53AM (#17690869)

I.e. an option to disable the screensaver? :).

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