Kindle screensaver

[ydoaPs]

Can you change what screens show up when you put your kindle to sleep?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Screen_Saver_Hack_for_all_2.x_and_3.x_Kindles

 

It involves "jailbreaking" the Kindle, and I haven't tried it, but there are other sites with some amusing backgrounds available should you try it.

[ydoaPs]

Have you tried lending books? It seems as though some clever people could put together a network and list who has what book. One could schedule time to have a certain book and take turns borrowing books. This could let a community read a library of books with minimal cost.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

I don't know many other people with a Kindle, so I haven't tried it. Maybe I should get to know more book nerds.

[ydoaPs]

They're eventually launching a system where you can borrow ebooks from your local library, but I'm not sure how expansive the selection of books or libraries will be.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

I'd like to see something like Google Books bring public domain and out-of-print books to ebook readers and computers everywhere. They have something like 3 million available so far, but not in any Kindle-compatible format (only ePub and web-based browsing), and they're still scanning through a bunch of university libraries.

 

Wandering through our campus library with several million books is more impressive when you realize that in a few years, it'll all be available in a device the size of a Kindle.

[ydoaPs]

Is there a way to make SFN more Kindle-friendly(like a mobile version or something)?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Yeah, there's a mobile version. I just adjusted things so the Kindle should be automatically served the mobile site. Is that better?

[pwagen]

Doesn't Kindle use any kind of that ink-stuff? If so, wouldn't a screen saver be kinda redundant, since it won't use up battery as long as you're not changing pages?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

After a few minutes idle, it flips the screen to a random picture of an author, rather than displaying the book you're reading. It's not an animated screensaver, and it does nothing other than look nice.

[Hari Seldon]

I know this is a bit of an old thread but try Calibre to convert ebooks and http://www.gutenberg.org/ to get some good ebooks for free, all of the books on there the copyright has expired.

 

Hope this helps

[kubizo]

Hi everyone, my website is quite relevant to the question in this topic, then I hope you will not accuse me of spamming even though I'm doing self-promotion

 

At http://www.kubizo.com/changing-kindle-screensaver.php you can find an automatic installer that does the job on your Kindle without requiring you to download hacks and fumble with them. On the website you can also find more than 2000 images in the right format (600 x 800, 16 shades of grey) to be used with the Kindle and, coming soon, a screensaver generator to convert your own photos into Kindle screensavers.

 

Enjoy!

 

Kubizo