Focusing ebooks and ereaders
B&N Nook’s EPUB DRM Hacked and Cracked
i♥cabbages who happens to crack the kindle DRM with the program litled “unswindle” has also recently been able to circumvent B&N’s EPUB DRM. He writes, on his blog:
The basic idea behind the B&N EPUB scheme is the same as that used by the ill-fated eReader format B&N acquired – step 1: generate an encryption key [...]
A Christmas Surprise: Kindle for PC DRM Hacked & Cracked – Another DRM Fiasco
Okay, Amazon might be unhappy, probably all publishers as well; but the truth is DRM is not the solution to prevent sharing of ebooks in this digital era when programing has become much more collaborative on the net, and access to internet has become easier than ever. For a long time Amazon got immunity from [...]
Hacking Kindle 2: Ubuntu Linux Running on Kindle 2
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 [...]
Now You Can Download PDFs from Kindle DX Browser with Hacks
You can directly download e-books from amazon kindle store over Whispernet. And it costs money to amazon. There are some basic web browsing facilities that come with your kindle. Amazon didn’t put any option to directly download books from any other sources since it would be then at the cost of amazon. However people are [...]
Unicode Font Hack Now Works with Kindle DX
As soon as kindle 2 was launched people started to hack the love-machine to find a way of more usability – unicode font hack (UFHack) is one of them. However, this hack didn’t work with the new kindle dx. Recently, folks at the-ebook.org came with a solution using igor’s mod. Blogkindle confirms that it works [...]
Pdf on Kindle 2 with savory hack: some unbelievable screenshoots of Scientific Papers
Jasse, the developer of savory hacks for kindle 2 to read pdf and epub documents or books that are natively converted to mobipocket format, have posted some unbelievable screenshots of a scientic paper that you can read on kindle. I know, for sure, if you use mobipocket creator, or amazon’s converrsion service to convert such [...]
Two recent kindle 2 hacks: Unicode fonts & Savory
B00154JDAI[/amazon-product]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 Vincent [...]
Font mod tool for kindle 1
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 will [...]
Kindle Calendar- Take note/highlight
Here is a new Calender for your kindle developed. According to the developer, the included features are:
2 years included – 2009 and 2010.
One Month per Page View. Nicely Formatted Table Like View.
A cover page you can use as an at-a-glance calendar for the next 8 months.
Ability to add a note or highlight to any date [...]
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