Great news for those of you missing your old screensavers: a person over at Mobileread.com has repackaged those beloved hacks so that they work on the new 2.5.2 update. To get them, visit this thread on Mobileread and check out post #2. You might also want to read through the instructions and commentary by other [...]
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Win a Speck Case for your Kindle 2!
Update, Friday May 28: The giveaway has ended! To select the winners, I used Random.org, then used it again to decide who got which case. I’ve already emailed the winners to let them know, so if you didn’t hear from me: I’m sorry, and Better luck next time, and It’s not you, it’s me. If [...]
Giveaway! Free Arkon Kindle stand to one lucky reader!
We have a winner! A lucky reader has won the Arkon Kindle Stand. I wish I had more to give out, because it’s sort of fun to award prizes to people. I’m going to change the entry process for the next two giveaways in order to give everyone an equal chance at winning the Speck [...]
Make sure you're ready for the Kindle 2.5 update
According to excited posts on various forums, Amazon has started to send out the 2.5 update to Kindle 2 and Kindle DX owners. To be more accurate, they started the rollout a couple of weeks ago, but that was considered a “beta” period; now everyone is starting to get the update. Hooray! If you want [...]
How to add custom screensavers to Kindle 2, Kindle 3 and DX
Updated: 23 December 2010 Please Note!These instructions are for Kindle 2, Kindle 3, and Kindle DX. For first generation Kindles, check this page. If you’re reading this, you probably want to put your own images on your new Kindle ereader. This is perfectly normal behavior; you are not wrong for feeling this way. In fact, [...]
Amazon's "Kindle for iPhone" sets ebooks free from your Kindle
It didn’t take long for Amazon to make good on its promise to expand into mobile territory. Last week, only a couple of weeks after releasing the Kindle 2, an official app showed up on the iTunes App Store that allows you to read your Kindle ebooks (but not mags or newspapers) on your iPhone [...]