The Kindle Touch (non-ad supported) comes with 20 attractive gray-scale screensaver/wallpaper images.
They’re fine, but after a while, I wanted to see some different images. One of the reasons I got the ad-free Touch was so that I wouldn’t be assaulted with an ad every time I picked up my Kindle to read something. I returned the ad-supported Kindle 3 because — among other reasons — although I can take ads in magazines, I didn’t want to see them in a book — not even an e-book.
The web is full of Kindle-supported screensaver images that I would have preferred to see on my device, but Amazon doesn’t allow me to customize the Kindle in even that harmless way. And this annoyed me.
So I took matters into my own hands, did a bit of hacking on my Kindle over the weekend, and now I have a pool of about 200 attractive, varied, and unusual images I can use as screensavers on my Kindle, as the following gallery shows. Tomorrow, a post on how I did it. If you want to see the many (many) sites I scoured looking for images, and thus get a peek into my own little OCD manias, you can browse them via my Pinboard links.
- Piranesi’s Carceri d’Invenzione
- Sweeney Todd
- First Folio title page
- Thrilling Cities
- The Mysterious Mr. Quin
- Rich man's reading spot
- Library stacks
- Moody library
- Bookplate
- Crowded bookshelves
- Infocom
- Illuminated
- I have no idea
- The Painter
- Sentinels
- Lightning
- Woodcut
- Right this way
- Keep calm
- Illuminati
- Silhouette
- Gustave Dore
- 1984
- Manuscript
- Nancy Drew
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I suspect this will help you make more friends with Kindle owners out there.
-M
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