
I was inspired by my sister as she had one for her studies and pleasure. One day I saw her playing around with it and asked her to show me what this all about. She showed me everything and I soon came to the conclusion that this little e-reader might be capable of more than just reading books so I started to investigate in the net. I found a whole community about kindle development. I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information about this topic out there. Unfortunately most of the articles for making you own Kindlets and such where obsolete and made for older versions of the Kindle API. Here you see a collection of my and also others or amended tutorials and information about Kindle Paperwhite development. |
Tutorials
- Disable OTA-Update on K5 / Paperwhite
mobileread.com (on mobileread) - Disable send logfile feature of Paperwhite
kimhauser.ch (thanks to ebs) - Hello World V2
kimhauser.ch (thanks to cowlark.com) - Create update_*.bin installer files for Kindle Paperwhite
kimhauser.ch (thanx to NiLuJe)
Tips & Tricks
- Kindle Paperwhite 5.3.5 (Install Firmware)
mobileread.com - Jailbreak Paperwhite (5.3.5)
mobileread.com - Prevent Kindle from automatically update firmware by Amazon
mobileread.com - Disable Big Brother features
mobileread.com - Kindle Serial Numbers
mobileread.com - Links a Kindle owner should have
mobileread.com
Resources (Development)
- Kindle API Documentation
kdk-javadocs.s3.amazonaws.com - Amazon Kindle SDK
developer.amazon.com - Mobileread Forum
mobileread.com - Getting started with Kindle development
cowlark.com - Requirements for getting KDK from Amazon
stackoverflow.com
Other Tools
- Calibre - Converts documents to ebooks
calibre-ebook.com - Writer2ePub - Converts OpenOffice documents to ePub
extensions.openoffice.org