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That's awesome! Up until now the only reason I have jailbroken every kindle I've owned is to have the screensaver be the book I'm reading rather than the dull preset ones. Finally I've found reason 2!

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Had not even thought of that. I rooted mine so I can remotely drop books into it without having to go get it and plug it into my computers. Also, the ability to read epub files is really nice.

You can email files to your kindle directly; although I just recently started using a kindle so I'm not sure if that's a new feature.

I got my first Kindle in 2012 and it already worked then, so not particularly new.

But there's a caveat: you lose the book cover in the process. I think Amazon does that intentionally.

There is a send to kindle app [0] which has worked for every document I have ever tried and it works almost instantly. I use it a ton. It even works for epub books I have converted to mobi through calibre (doesn't work perfectly all the time but if you got some programming/hacking skills, you can make it work. I got a book that mobi kept trying to translate each paragraph into a separate page through a triple conversion from epub to single page html doc (then vim find/replace page breaks) and then to mobi).

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle

I'd like to be the current page of the book I'm reading!

The screensaver hack allows you to do that.

Instructions? Was looking a few months ago to no avail

If you have a firmware 5 kindle (Touch, Paperwhite, Voyage, Oasis), see the screensavers hack thread on Mobileread:

> Dou you prefer to just show the last thing that was on screen, with an overlay indicating when the device's alseep? Just drop a blank file named last in the linkss folder. Restart your Kindle ([HOME] -> [MENU] > Settings -> [MENU] > Restart; or simply use the Screen Savers > Restart framework now button in KUAL), and you're done

from https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195474

Obviously make sure you read everything (really, everything, including all the tiny text, even if it doesn't seem relevant) before you start.

I.e. an option to disable the screensaver? :).

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