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JohnsonZA · 10-28-2010, 07:56 AM

I was thinking about how to implement a hack that would set your screensaver to the cover of the current book you are reading. It goes something like this:

In a cron script, check the LAST_BOOK_READ variable in the /mnt/us/system/com.amazon.ebook.booklet.reader/reader.pref
Extract the book cover from the mobi file from 1
Save the cover to /mnt/linkss/screensavers/00001_cover.png
???
Profit!

This would obviously rely on the screensaver hack and assumes that the cover image would be the only screensaver image. Saving the file with the same name should remove the need to reboot that the screensaver hack has. The frequency of the cron script could be say 5 minutes. Is there any reason this wouldn't work?

If any experts have an opinion, I'd love to know before wasting my time on any code.

10-28-2010, 07:56 AM	#1
JohnsonZA Member Posts: 10 Karma: 12 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle 3 3G+Wifi	Idea for book cover screensaver I was thinking about how to implement a hack that would set your screensaver to the cover of the current book you are reading. It goes something like this: In a cron script, check the LAST_BOOK_READ variable in the /mnt/us/system/com.amazon.ebook.booklet.reader/reader.pref Extract the book cover from the mobi file from 1 Save the cover to /mnt/linkss/screensavers/00001_cover.png ??? Profit! This would obviously rely on the screensaver hack and assumes that the cover image would be the only screensaver image. Saving the file with the same name should remove the need to reboot that the screensaver hack has. The frequency of the cron script could be say 5 minutes. Is there any reason this wouldn't work? If any experts have an opinion, I'd love to know before wasting my time on any code. Last edited by JohnsonZA; 10-28-2010 at 08:01 AM.