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 enTourage eDGe dualbook ebook reader/tablet/notepad device has been rooted By AndroidPolice. What does the ‘rooted’ mean? It means you can get full adb access so that you can install your own applications. It’s a great thing for application developers. For Average Joe, this means nothing. According to Android Police: This root finally opens the [...]
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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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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 [...]
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Do you know there is a Nook Dev team? Probably not until now. Yes, the team has torn off the nook, took out the micro SD card which contains the whole Android OS. They have used a card reader connected to a Linux computer that has Android Dev Toolkit installed to access the file system [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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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