Hacks Paperwhite colour temperature -> warmer?

[PRS-T2]

I just figured that the hack to get rid of the margins is out of development. That's one bummer too much for me. Forced margins on a 6" display, seriously? That's too much idiocracy for me.

I thought I had found the perfect Sony replacement. I was willing to buy that frankenreader, JB it in order to give it a slight chance of keeping up with a Sony (headstart even, since Kindle is the only one to allow for buying several dictionaries and use them as such), and tear it down to make the frontlight less unhealthy and uncomfortable for night reading. It would have been the perfect ereader for me, though not out of the box...

Can someone please build an ereader that's capable of replacing a 3,5yrs old Sony? Double the price for christ's sake, just DO it! Now I pray and hope that my PRS-T2 won't die until some manufacturer is up to the task. I'd like to read on something bigger, like the H2O, but not for the price of stacking several 1++kg worth of dictionaries around me to bugger about with them.

It's a nightmare...


Edited because NiLuJe proved me wrong. Left it here for consistency.

[NiLuJe]

@PRS-T2: Err, what? kaznelson is dutifully maintaining his margins hack, both for the PW1 & the PW2, so we've been enjoying borderless reading for quite a while .

(And, of course, KOReader & CoolReader let you do whatever the hell you want with your margins, too ).

[pghaworth]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@PRS-T2: Err, what? kaznelson is dutifully maintaining his margins hack, both for the PW1 & the PW2, so we've been enjoying borderless reading for quite a while .

(And, of course, KOReader & CoolReader let you do whatever the hell you want with your margins, too ).

I had no idea there was a margins hack. I'll need to get all over that.

Is it my imagination, something I'm doing wrong, or is KOReader unable to display library books, for whatever reason? I'm figuring the DRM. Thanks in advance.

[NiLuJe]

@pghaworth: Yup. DRM.

[PRS-T2]

Originally Posted by pghaworth

I had no idea there was a margins hack. I'll need to get all over that.

Is it my imagination, something I'm doing wrong, or is KOReader unable to display library books, for whatever reason? I'm figuring the DRM. Thanks in advance.

At least here in Germany, the open readers like KOReader or Coolreader don't support Adobe DRM, if that's what your library is using...

@PRS-T2: Err, what? kaznelson is dutifully maintaining his margins hack, both for the PW1 & the PW2, so we've been enjoying borderless reading for quite a while .

(And, of course, KOReader & CoolReader let you do whatever the hell you want with your margins, too ).

NiLuJe - thanks!!! I read somewhere about JBpatch and that margin hack would only work for older FW. My apologies to Kaznelson for me being a stupid

from kaznelson's post you linked:
- The changed margins at reading mobi/kf8-books and pdf-documents (ReaderSDK-impl-en_GB.jar);

It reads a bit like azw3 wasn't supported here. Because, a few lines above in the same changelog he states kf8 and azw3 specifically...

So it works for AZW3 in the standard reader but needs language set to EN? Does the FW handle dictionaries differently when system lang is set from, say German, to English?
Alternative readers won't do the magic for me, because (if I didn't get that one wrong, too hehe) there is no way to get all the nice dictionaries working.

Oxford, Pons etc. and the quick and easy jumping forth and back between book and wikipedia is what makes Kindle the only acceptable system for me after Sony in the first place

[pghaworth]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@pghaworth: Yup. DRM.

Thanks! I did a bunch of testing, with various books, etc. and decided that must be it. I'm using my hideous PW1 as my jb and other hacks testing model. Only so much I can screw up on it.

[pghaworth]

Originally Posted by PRS-T2

At least here in Germany, the open readers like KOReader or Coolreader don't support Adobe DRM, if that's what your library is using...

Thanks!

[NiLuJe]

@PRS-T2: Yep, the UI language has no impact on dictionaries, those are based on the document's language (if set in the metadata, if not, there might be some logic that falls back to the default dictionary for the UI language instead. Switching dictionaries on the fly is fairly painless on the PW2 anyway ).

[PRS-T2]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@PRS-T2: Yep, the UI language has no impact on dictionaries, those are based on the document's language (if set in the metadata, if not, there might be some logic that falls back to the default dictionary for the UI language instead. Switching dictionaries on the fly is fairly painless on the PW2 anyway ).

Damn you're fast Thank you so much for your help NiLuJe!!! I edited the post while you were answering it, I suppose...

from my earlier post:
from kaznelson's post you linked:

It reads a bit like azw3 wasn't supported here. Because, a few lines above in the same changelog he states kf8 and azw3 specifically...

So it really works for AZW3 and not just for the formats kaznelson mentions specifically? Sorry for being such a pita

[NiLuJe]

@PRS-T2: AZW3 is KF8 .

As with the default settings, the scaling might be slightly different between the KF7 (MOBI) and KF8 (AZW3) reader, but it's usually for the better. The latest version handles the dictionaries popup better, too.

EDIT: As a for instance, with the margins at the minimum.

[pghaworth]

Thanks for the pics. Love those margins! Yeah. I am going to get that hack.

[NiLuJe]

I'm using the smallest & finer-grained preset of font sizes, FWIW (2_16-30).

That said, I'm also using heavily tweaked font settings when it comes to font sizes, since I'm using CFF OpenType fonts tailored for print, not screen, so I'm also playing with scaling on a per-font basis to smooth things over [but that's another subject, falling under the Fonts Hack's umbrella ].

[PRS-T2]

@NiLuJe: That's brilliant!
@all: I'm in the game again, yeehaw!

As for the frontlight hack: I'm currently looking for thin, heat resistant yellow-orange filter film that's available in Germany. I think film would be the best way to reduce the blue in the lighting, since it could be reverted, e.g. to change the intensity or the tone whereas painting would be permanent, can't be tested to figure out the right amount and would be hard to distribute evenly.

All sorts of filter I tried so far with my led lights got bleached by the heat emitted by the LEDs, up to a degree of total color loss. No wonder, since they were meant for video and photo production and event lighting. They can take immense spotlight heat, but not for long.

I'm also thinking of Kapton tape due to it heat resisting capabilities and amber color, but can't find a source here, only some chinese clone at Amazon. I don't know whether it is too dark or not.

Any advice or silly idea are still highly welcome

As soon as I find something that's worth a try, I will order a PW and take my time to make sure that it's ok, before I kill the warranty by tearing it down to try the hack.

Whoever has any idea or suggestion how to do it or what to use, please drop it here or pm me, it would be highly welcome.

I will try to make photos of what I do, just in case that my low blue light frankenreader turns out to be actually usable ^^

[pghaworth]

Originally Posted by PRS-T2

As soon as I find something that's worth a try, I will order a PW and take my time to make sure that it's ok, before I kill the warranty by tearing it down to try the hack.

Whoever has any idea or suggestion how to do it or what to use, please drop it here or pm me, it would be highly welcome.

I will try to make photos of what I do, just in case that my low blue light frankenreader turns out to be actually usable ^^

I would rather be there during the teardown and hack, but photos will do nicely. Thanks!

[jj2me]

Originally Posted by PRS-T2

As for the frontlight hack: I'm currently looking for thin, heat resistant yellow-orange filter film ...

Just a suggestion: you might want to hold off on purchasing anything until you see your new PW2. It might be warm enough for you out of the box, particularly if you like to keep the light turned down low. To my eyes, at low light settings, it appears to be a darker amber than Moon Reader's most amber stock background image.

My Paperwhite 2 is a new 4 GB wi-fi model without Special Offers, bought in the U.S., and is warm like these other two reported in this thread:

Originally Posted by pghaworth

I got three that were "warmer tone" and sent them back. I think you're more likely to get one that's warmer in color if you don't order the ones with Special Offers. The whiter ones I got were Wifi, Special Offers. I originally ordered plain wifi and got decidedly warmer toned models.

Originally Posted by aceflor

: Seriously : NO. The PW2 I ordered in Germany in September has a warm tone, quite similar to my Voyage (bought in the US).