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Originally Posted by Tanga
Hi,
I think I'm getting close to having my Kindle set up the way I want. But I'm always looking for new inspiration. I thought it was set up right and then I discovered Lauchpad - and the Mediaplayer, and Dictaphone, and...
My Setup
0.6N Jailbreak
SS and Font hack - I haven't really utilised the font hack yet, but I've installed some fantasy screensavers which I then stamped. The first stand alone program I'm running is KIF. An awesome interactive fiction machine.
For a while I was happy with just the above. Then I saw the MPlayer hack and Launchpad. I've installed all the ini scripts on the launchpad page (the 'rotate screen' add-on is the most useful. Although the dictaphone add-on is a close second. I also might have *ahem* fibbed about my location to get Notepad (not a hack but useful).
I can't talk up the readability mod enough for those who read stories online. It opens all chapters up on the one, well formatted, page.
On my computer I have Calibre for organising my (non-amazon) ebooks and putting them on the Kindle. I use Mangle for converting comics for the Kindle (for Linux users you are much better off using the windows mangle under wine).
I am using a Kindle 3 wifi. I have it tethered to my android phone because internet seems to be faster (it's certainly not slower), and android can do ad-hoc networks like the one at Uni.
So, what hacks do you guys use / recommend? |
Rather than using Mangle try out Canti.
http://bitcake.com/?page=project_canti
It has tons of great features, including the shrinking of whitespace in manga rows and columns (which makes most manga pages almost full screen on the Kindle 3), creation of .cbz files (which are really nice on the Kindle 3),
colour quantization (which means it only uses colours that your device can display, which saves space and makes things look better), auto splitting of non continuous landscape pages, and much more.
It is also multi platform and supports a variety of devices.
One caveat is the the GUI sucks at the moment and doesn't support the newer features, but the developer says he is working on it.
The CLI version works well though.