The Universe of eReaders and eBooks
Yes, it happened again. This time jail-braking works for both Kindle 2 and Kindle 3. Details have been posted on mobileread forum. In order to hack Kindle you’ve to jailbrake Kindle first. There are three hacks currently available: Fonts Screensavers USB network For jailbraking, you have to careful finding out the appropriate file for your [...]
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The story of Pandigital Novel is now known to ereader enthusiasts. Kohls and JCPenny have started selling the android ereader device at $149; but in a few days it has been recalled from the market even though it has not been officially launched yet. After a recent firmwire update, pe0ple are still complaining the sluggish [...]
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Twook is an application for posting and reading messages on Twitter. This was developed bu Nookdevs. According to Noodevs: The most recent version is 0.0.6. It has 4 custom search buttons, a button to display the favorite tweets for the authenticated user, and search users button. The tweet button is now large and on the [...]
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Trook is an application for the Nook that can download books from Stanza catalogs or OPDS content or your Calibre content server. It can also read RSS or ATOM feeds, show associated web pages or download audio files from such feeds. Finally, it can also install more applications, if they are linked from a feed. [...]
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Jesse Vincent once surprised us with his software ‘savory’ to read PDFs on kindle 2. Recently he came up with a hacking to run Ubuntu on kindle 2. In Jesse words: “After that, I started to get curious about what else might be possible. It only took a few evenings to get a moderately usable [...]
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On blogkindle, a recent post with download links shows how you can install non-English unicode fonts and read your content in your preferred language. According to the post, “hack comes in a form of manually installable patch and is fully reversible. Source code is included so you can customize the hack.” On another front, Jesse [...]
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On the mobileread forum, lovebeta has just released a tool for kindle 1 (be careful, not for kindle 2) so that you modify the fonts that can render text in non-European languages. He uses “DroidSansFallback” font which “contains fairly complete unicode characters and is free”. Accoring to him, “Due to the usage of symlink, you [...]
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