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Old 01-01-2011, 05:17 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by brennivin View Post
Firmware/software - I'm ok with most of it. Ideal? No. But functional. However, I'm curious if, since it's Linux based, anyone's taken on updating the firmware themselves? Or at least some parts of it? I'd love better video and music playback. Or image zoom functions that allow for four-directional scrolling. Etc. Anyone?
Ok, so this question I can help you with. As of the time I bought it a few months ago I could not find anyone who'd actually tried, but I did find some others interested in seeing it done. There wasn't much information at all on how you'd go about it at that point, so I started my own project: Open The Book; That's all I've got for now. It contains enough information (and tools) to get you into the firmware images that they distribute and modify them. It also contains information about how one might modify a stock Linux kernel to run The Book and a few other bits and pieces. Let me know what you think.

Chris
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