[bostonpolar]

Please, PLEASE, help me!

I need help to do the Screensaver Hack for a Kindle Paperwhite (5th Generation); PLEASE let me know if I have done anything wrong in what I write below.

I want to tell you how important this is to me so you can understand how *desperate* I am:

I have over 600 Kindle screensavers (many of which I had to resize for the paperwhite), 95% of which I made myself. I really *enjoyed* making screensavers for my Kindle and would make 1-3 every few days. (I have very *few* things in my life which I enjoy doing; I live a very lonely life which I have tried and failed to change many times.)

One of the other things that I greatly enjoy in my life is *reading*. I likely have read over 15,000 books; I own about 6,000 physical books -- which I no longer have direct access to. So I am trying to build my eBook Library with both new books and to replace the physical books I have/had. (I do have Calibre.)

When my Kindle update to 5.6.1.1 in summer 2015, my Kindle screensavers no longer work. I was truly *devastated*. I was furious with Amazon and wrote them many complaints. I will NEVER understand why --

1) Amazon insists on creating updates which make it so hard -- if not impossible -- to *modify* a Kindle so its owner can get greater enjoyment and use from it, and

2) Why the heck doesn't Amazon actually *incorporate* such modifications INTO its own *official software updates* so that owners would NOT have to resort to hacking them. These would be additional features that a great many Kindle owner would LOVE to have and, I think, *increase sales* for Amazon. Heck, Amazon could sell packages of *screensavers* themselves that people would buy!

But as I said, I was truly *devastated* -- to such a point I stopped using my Kindle and all but stopped *reading* for over 2 months. AND for over 50 years of my life I have read a book entirely within 1-3 days. And I just *stopped* for months using my Kindle, my central source for reading.

I love physical books and being able to have my *own* screensavers on my Kindle gave me a sense of having the covers of a book on it. Without them, it is the same 10-15(?) boring, dull screensavers over and over again. Almost all my enjoyment of using my Kindle went with my screensavers.

I am reading using my Kindle again, but the pleasure of a Kindle is just no longer there for me. I do not even want to look at it when I am not reading.

I think I have gotten part of the Screensaver Hack done; I think it is the basic hack for the 5.6.1.1 update. I installed something on this Kindle and now have as folders on it:

.active_content_sandbox

documents

extensions

mkk

mrpackages

rp

...and two files with no association:

driveinfo

metadata

Is that what I should have with that hack???

If it is, that's great. BUT the problem is, I cannot *understand* want to do next! I have read many of the posts about installing the Screensaver Hack and I just get confused over and over again. I normally can follow such things enough to know what to do, but with this, I just do NOT get it.

It has reach the point I just cannot stand not having my own screensavers for the Kindle.

So please, PLEASE, someone here, would you go slowly, step-by-step, in just simple language, HOW I make the Screensaver Hack *work* and exactly WHAT programs I need to do this.

I'm begging you people. Truly.

Thanks, I hope.

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