When you subscribe to RSS feeds or newspapers via Amazon's service, the Kindle automatically downloads them. There must be some kind of scheduler "daemon" on the device, which presumably has a queue of content that it needs to refresh.
It would be interesting to figure out if it is possible to make use of this daemon to refresh content outside of Amazon's service.
For example, FeedBooks.com offers a catalog of their ebooks, in a mobi format. The user is supposed to use the browser to go and download that catalog. From there the user can pick and choose from the catalog and download individual items.
Would it be possible for the FeedBooks.com catalog to get automatically refreshed once a week?
This is just an example of course and there are many applications beyond that, if someone could find a hack to do it
Cheers,
Julien