Kindle DX Notes and Links

Hardware Hacking

• Kindle DX serial console
• USB to TTL
  • http://mdfly.com/
  • MDFLY's eBay store
  • CP2102 MDFLY's USB to TTL adapter board
  • CP2102 Win/Mac/Linux drivers
• Igor's "Reversing Everything" blog, Kindle category: http://igorsk.blogspot.com/search/label/kindle

OS Hacking

(The lines are blurred a little between hardware and OS/firmware hacking, as you have to do one to get to the other, then you can use the other to do more stuff with the first)

• Screensaver hack
• Tethering the Kindle 2
• Extract initramfs from kindle dx kernel image

Mobi/AZW

• MOBI file format
• MobiPerl - apps and library for acting on mobi files. Includes mobi2mobi.

CHM to PDF

• Chimp seems to be the app that everyone recommends for converting Microsoft CHM "ebook" files to PDF. Unfortunately, it now seems to have been abandoned by the developers.
  • Download link: http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/Chimp-Download-9854.html
  • Registration: Name:Santa Claus SN:Chimp-R80R-0100-3M53-0052-202F (via http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18339)
• http://ask.metafilter.com/72218/chm-to-pdf-conversion-in-Mac-OS-X
• E-book conversion at mobileread.com's wiki

DRM

• Elcomsoft's PDF password recovery
• http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4772961/Igor_s_kindle_python_scripts_AZW__mobi_hack
• Removing DRM from Kindle books
• Mobi2Mobi GUI - Windows GUI for mobi2mobi that allows user to change TTS flag and clipping limit.

Other

• Hidden keyboard shortcuts
• User agent strings (Kindle as compared to iPhone so that I can do something fancy with http://m.netninja.com )
  • Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Linux 2.6.10) NetFront/3.3 Kindle/1.0 (screen 600x800)
  • Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3