Hacking the Kindle to get it to do more than it was intended is certainly not a new thing, but lately it seems to be much more possible. The Director of the Kindle at Amazon is even publicly open to people hacking and reverse engineering the Kindle to extend its functionality. Here is a round [...]
Reported by blog kindle last week, Amazon released a small update to the Kindle operating system as version 2.0.3, which by now your Kindles should have automatically upgraded to. blog kindle reports that the update only appears to have minor bug fixes but nothing visually has appeared to have changed. They also note that if [...]
iReaderReview has put up an excellent collection of tips, tricks, and hacks for the Kindle 2. Rather than attempt to build my own list, go check out their posting. Excellent work guys!
Two brilliant guys have hacked the Kindle and Kindle 2. The Kindle was first hacked a long, long time ago (December 2007) by Igor. He managed to use the Linux sources that Amazon is required to publish in order to figure out how things are setup in the firmware. Then he built a faux JTAG [...]
