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Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on April 28, 2012, 10:16:49 PM
What?  You did not like the Mexican Novel about a kid named Manual? 

Over all, I think the limited menus is a positive thing-- no needlessly complicated stuff to bother with.

OTOH?  I do wish Amazon had opened up the folder structure such that we could replace the stock screen saver junk with our own pics.   Oh well, you cannot have everything.

There is a simple and safe hack to do that. I've done it... Would you like me to unearth the instructions for you?

Quote from: The Meromorph on April 30, 2012, 06:48:29 PM

Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on April 28, 2012, 10:16:49 PM
What?  You did not like the Mexican Novel about a kid named Manual? 

Over all, I think the limited menus is a positive thing-- no needlessly complicated stuff to bother with.

OTOH?  I do wish Amazon had opened up the folder structure such that we could replace the stock screen saver junk with our own pics.   Oh well, you cannot have everything.

There is a simple and safe hack to do that. I've done it... Would you like me to unearth the instructions for you?

Ooooo! Yes please.

^^ Me too, please, Mero.

I'd be interested myself, even though my kindles are mostly back-burner these days

Just wasted about three hours playing with my kindle. Silly. I got a newspaper subscription and will try it out tomorrow. Wi-fi (as opposed to 3G) will deliver an enriched image version (to do with download times, and stopping and starting etc). So have had to unhide my network to get wi-fi. Amazon tried for about an hour and a half to get the Hub and the Kindle to connect when hidden (which it should do with manual input of SSID and password). But they couldn't get it to work. They did confirm everything was set up correctly. They gave up eventually. I tried BT (for the Hub) but they just said it should work. So everybody is saying it should work. But it isn't. So I have to unhide.

I'm not sure whether I'll like getting the newspaper via Kindle. I like doing the crossword and the Sudoku every day and that doesn't seem to be in the Kindle version. Trouble is the Kindle version is a quarter of the price. Plus I am fed up with having piles of newspapers to clear out. Sudoku for Kindle,,,, are a few, but none are interactive.

I'm told there are some very good crossword puzzles on the web... but as I'm no fan of these things, I cannot confirm.

No interactive crosswords for the Kindle either...........

Yes, there are online.

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

Quote from: The Meromorph on May 02, 2012, 07:22:54 PM
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Screen_Saver_Hack_for_all_2.x_and_3.x_Kindles

Alas, you must jailbreak it (root access).

Oh well.

Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on May 03, 2012, 04:22:22 AM

Quote from: The Meromorph on May 02, 2012, 07:22:54 PM
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Screen_Saver_Hack_for_all_2.x_and_3.x_Kindles

Alas, you must jailbreak it (root access).

Oh well.

Why is that a probem?

Once you've done it, you can gets kindlets  

Of course the warranty is invalidated, but if you are your kindle is out of warranty it's irrelevant.

True enough. [re: warranty]

I suppose I worry a wee bit, that the Kindle will become blacklisted by Amazon, and you won't be allowed to use any DRM books on it.

And that worry is slightly bigger than my need for a custom screensaver photo.

So....

It would be useful to find out about that ^.

Anyway, it seems the hack doesn't cover my Kindle 4.  I don't care to risk it, anyway.

Thanks anyway, Mero.

How did you get a Kindle 4? They only just brought out the Kindle 3 here???

It came out with the iphone Π and the nook √2