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The grumpy editor's e-book reader

The grumpy editor's e-book reader

Posted Jul 22, 2009 22:17 UTC (Wed) by ebs (guest, #30411)
Parent article: The grumpy editor's e-book reader

Kindle is pretty easily hackable. It's trivial to get a root shell, all UI is written in Java which makes reverse engineering rather simple. I was able to even replace stock screensaver functionality with a less annoying one.
Interested people can find more info in MobileRead formus - http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=140


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