![]() ![]() Regular readers will likely remember the Inkplate, an open hardware electronic paper development board that combines an ESP32 with a recycled Kindle screen. But given that it’s the reality when using one of Amazon’s readers, this seems a good a time as any for a brief rundown of the different ebook formats, and a look at how we got into this mess in the first place.Ĭontinue reading “Kindle, EPUB, And Amazon’s Love Of Reinventing Wheels” → Posted in Featured, History, Kindle hacks, Slider Tagged amazon, ebook, ereader, file format, kindle Users shouldn’t have to wade through an alphabet soup of oddball file formats when there’s already an accepted industry standard in EPUB. If you think this is a lot of unnecessary confusion just to get plain-text files to display on the world’s most popular ereader, you aren’t alone. At the same time the Send to Kindle documentation noted that support for AZW and MOBI files would be removed later on this year, as the older formats weren’t compatible with all the features of the latest Kindle models. Granted this is still an improvement, as it represents a relatively low-effort way to get the open format files on your personal device but in sending the files through the service they would be converted to Amazon’s KF8/AZW3 format, the result of which may not always be what you expected. It wasn’t long before the original post was updated to clarify that Amazon had simply added support for EPUB to their Send to Kindle service. Native support for EPUB would make using the Kindle a lot less of a hassle for many folks, but alas, it was not to be. Accordingly, many users have turned to third party programs which can reliably convert their personal libraries over to whatever Amazon format their particular Kindle is most compatible with. But rather than supporting the open eBook format, Amazon had always insisted in coming up with their own proprietary formats to use on their readers. After all, it was a feature that owners have been asking for since the Kindle was first released in 2007. The story was picked up by all the major tech sites, and for a time, there was much rejoicing. Last last month, a post from the relatively obscure Good e-Reader claimed that Amazon would finally allow the Kindle to read EPUB files. Hopefully, projects like this can help inspire others to pick one up and start experimenting with what’s possible.Ĭontinue reading “Turning Old Kindles Into AI Powered Picture Frames” → Posted in Kindle hacks, Software Hacks Tagged jailbreak, kindle, python, stable diffusion While it’s a shame you can’t just pick up a new Kindle and start hacking (at least, for now), there are still millions of older devices floating around that could be put to good use. Unfortunately, it seems like Amazon has recently gone on the offensive, with firmware updates blocking the exploits the community was using for jailbreaking on all but the older models that are no longer officially supported. While it’s not difficult to do, there are plenty of pitfalls if you’ve never done it before, so a concise guide is a nice thing to have. Given the somewhat niche nature of Kindle hacking, we’re particularly glad to see that went through the trouble of explaining the nuances of getting the e-reader ready to run your own code. Then you just move the Kindlefusion package over either via USB or SSH, and do a little final housekeeping before starting it up and letting it take over the Kindle’s normal UI. From there you install a few required packages as listed in the project documentation, including Python 3. You can find cheap older Kindles on eBay.Īll you need is a Kindle that can be jailbroken, though technically the software has only been tested against older third and fourth-generation hardware. There are also functions to recall previously generated images, and if you’re connecting from a mobile device, support for creating images from voice prompts. ![]() Just connect your browser to the web-based control interface running on the Kindle, give it a prompt, and away it goes. ![]() It turns the Kindle into a picture frame to show off the latest in machine learning art thanks to Stable Diffusion. This is why we love to see projects like Kindlefusion from. Given how cheap you can get old Kindles on the second hand market, this has always struck us as something of a wasted opportunity. ![]() While we tend to think of Amazon’s e-paper Kindles as more or less single-purpose devices (which to be fair, is how they’re advertised), there’s actually a full-featured Linux computer running behind that simple interface, just waiting to be put to work. ![]()
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