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Vak · 03-11-2021, 09:55 AM

Hi all,

Let me preface this with the fact that I am completely new to kindles and e-readers in general.
I bought a used Kindle 5th gen off eBay a few days ago. It displays text well enough (The screen is a bit washed out but I knew this going in) but my main problem has been with the way it displays images, they look like they are missing much of the 'greyscale' in screensavers and barely show up at all within books. Is this a software bug? Is my screen damaged? Is this normal operation for a Kindle of this vintage?
I have attached some images of it displaying screensavers and one of it trying to display an image in the center of the screen (Note how it just shows the text from the previous page mixed up with parts of the image)

The attachment tool for this forum didn't work for me so I've attached pasteboard links, lmk if the aren't working:

https://pasteboard.co/JS8cI9b.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/JS8cngu.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/JS8e239.jpg

Furthermore, I was wondering if there is any cool homebrew software that you all could recommend to me?

Thanks.

03-11-2021, 09:55 AM	#1
Vak Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2021 Device: Kindle 5th Generation	Images Look Weird on my Kindle 5th Gen Hi all, Let me preface this with the fact that I am completely new to kindles and e-readers in general. I bought a used Kindle 5th gen off eBay a few days ago. It displays text well enough (The screen is a bit washed out but I knew this going in) but my main problem has been with the way it displays images, they look like they are missing much of the 'greyscale' in screensavers and barely show up at all within books. Is this a software bug? Is my screen damaged? Is this normal operation for a Kindle of this vintage? I have attached some images of it displaying screensavers and one of it trying to display an image in the center of the screen (Note how it just shows the text from the previous page mixed up with parts of the image) The attachment tool for this forum didn't work for me so I've attached pasteboard links, lmk if the aren't working: https://pasteboard.co/JS8cI9b.jpg https://pasteboard.co/JS8cngu.jpg https://pasteboard.co/JS8e239.jpg Furthermore, I was wondering if there is any cool homebrew software that you all could recommend to me? Thanks.