HackedUpReader is a CoolReader 3 port for the Kindle Touch and the Kindle Paperwhite using the X11 gui of the CoolReader project, somewhat adapted for the touch interface.
That means it uses the current CoolReader engine for reading and parsing e-books but for displaying them the X11 GUI port is used instead of the Qt interface that CoolReader 3 for Kindle is using.
It was only meant to act as a temporary solution to get a ePub reader for the Kindle Touch until something better comes along. If it doesn't suit you, you might want to check out
KOReader which sees more development these days.
Latest version is 0.4.1,
released on 2014-10-29.
What works:
- reading e-books
- opening other e-books
- setting options
- battery display
- searching
- bookmarking
- screen refresh for removing e-ink artifacts (automatic after a configurable amount of pages)
- manually rotated screen
What doesn't work:
For display quality and preventing crashes when using non-standard fonts install
this version of the freetype library.
The download of the compiled binary as zip with a standard Kindle update bin including Launcher extensions or a simple tar.gz of the HackedUpReader directory:
http://bhaak.net/kindle/hackedupreader_0.4.1.zip
http://bhaak.net/kindle/hackedupreader-0.4.1.tar.gz
Older releases are here:
https://github.com/bhaak/HackedUpReader/releases
There are 2 different GUI launcher extensions (so you don't have to launch it with command line commands):
The source code is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/bhaak/HackedUpReader
Other reading software for the Kindle Touch and Paperwhite that are using the Cool Reader engine and therefore have at least the same format support as HackedUpReader are: