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Old 03-24-2018, 07:48 AM   #14
John Hopper
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
There were some detailed discussions about suitable magnets you could buy in one of these MR forums a couple of years ago. You might like to try a couple of searches to see if you can track it down.

I have a vague memory about 'rare earth' magnets being discussed. They need to be fairly strong, I think.

Some people were successful using the magnet from the back of one of their fridge magnets. However, this didn't work with any of mine which all seemed too weak. I ended up using a small rectangular magnet which came out of an old electric toothbrush head. My husband's discovery, not mine

You can easily test whether any household magnet is going to be suitable just by holding it a couple of millimetres above the screen in the 'right place'. I don't know how much this 'right place' varies across different devices but on my various Kobos it always seems to be roughly 1-inch-above and 1-inch-left of the bottom right corner of the screen (not the bezel).
Thanks for this. I looked back at the earlier posts you mentioned. I've tried numerous fridge magnets to no avail. They don't activate any part of the screen of my Kindle to trigger sleep/wake. I've also bought some small strong neodymium magnets, a type of rare earth magnet, but they don't work either. No part of the screen is activated when I hold them just above surface.

So I wonder how those who have made it work have done so. At least, I wonder if someone who has tried this with a Kindle rather than a Kobo can say which part of the screen the built-in magnet activates in the sleep/wake function?
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