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Originally Posted by techiemonkey
I just found out that the nook str and the sony prs t1 have a extreme fast refresh hack that makes scrolling and reading much faster and a breeze. I wonder if one such hack exists fir the kindle touch too.if not is there a half refresh hack for the kt.
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It can be done, but I am not aware of a specific hack that supports what you want just yet. It requires drawing in pure black and white. To see just how fast it can go, check out my "geekmaster kindle video player" (while viewing the first "geekmaster signature video", and my "newtrix" demo. Those prove that you can do smooth animation (video and text) on the kindle eink displays. It is just a matter of replacing the eink driver to get that working on the desktop framework (like they did for the Nook Simple Touch to get it playing Angry Birds with smooth video).
The NST has the same eink display as the K5, so we can do smooth scrolling text and angry-birds-style games on the K5 too, with suitable eink driver replacements. Check out these videos for a sample of what we CAN do on the K5(touch):
We CAN do the same video as shown above on the kindles (and perhaps better with the dithering algorithms that I developed for the eink kindles), when *somebody* writes the necessary code to support it.
At this time, my code can support native mode text scrolling in such programs as
hawhill's muPDF project (if and when it gets added). But built-in apps would need a replacement device driver and/or kernel.