[WinnieP]

Hi all,

I am a very happy Kindle owner. I have been playing with the thought of installing the screensaver hack. A friend has recently bought a Sony ereader and she has the cover of the book she's reading as the screensaver which I thought was a nice idea.

I know you have to jailbreak the Kindle for this, I know that officially voids the warranty, and I also know you can remove the hack in case you need to send your kindle back.

Here's the thing. On the same day I saw my friend's Sony and showed her my Kindle, when I got home and turned my Kindle back on, half the screen was frozen, showing lines and a partial of the screensaver. As we all know Amazon CS is incredible and 5 days later (I'm in Europe) I had a replacement and the original is now on it's way back to Amazon.

Now this made me realize, while you might be able to wipe the system clean when it comes to jailbreaking, that screen will stay as it is when something like this happens. Had I jailbroken my Kindle before this happened, and a partial of my own screensaver image had been 'burned' onto the screen, there's no way of erasing that evidence, and they would know it was jailbroken when they got the broken Kindle back.

Though I'd still really like the screensaver hack and some of the other options you have when jailbreaking the Kindle, I think I don't dare to do it now. I am so grateful to amazon for being so great about replacing a kindle with a problem, I don't want to mess that up.

Any of you have the same thought, or perhaps have some relevant experience when returning a Kindle?