Thanks everyone for chiming in.
@NiLuJe
A2b: Cool, I think I've found what you are talking about (
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=327879). I'll try this out.
A3. New-ish to Python (more at script kiddie level right now) but I have some experience coding so I'll manage. Sorry, this is going to be a bit of a stupid follow up question. For the Python script, would I call it through SSH (for terminal access), having uploaded the script to root? Automation I suppose I could do either with a timer within the Python script or with Cron? Requests and FBink are the network and display libraries respectively - so helpfiles will tell me all I need to know to interface with these.
Asking to determine current best practices for Kindle hacking.