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Kindle eBook Reader

Kindle is the popular eBook reader sold by amazon

http://www.amazon.com/kindle

A SDK is in limited beta phase: http://www.amazon.com/kdk

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get cover image of *.mobi or *.prc files

I'm trying to parse the mobi books, only want to get some information of the book, ie: title, author and cover (if any). I'm following mobi format spec. Now, I can get the title and author correctly, but when it comes to the cover, I get these…
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Kindle Fire status bar and soft key bar bug

I am developing a magazine reader application aimed at the Kindle Fire. In landscape mode the built in softkey bar and status bar in the Kindle's operating system leave little room for my content so I have opted to run the activity in fullscreen…
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How-to suppress Search icon on Kindle Fire Menu/Actionbar

A Search Icon appears in Kindle footer area (which I think is sort of an actionbar). It always appears on all my activities but I don't have search functionality on every activity. How do I get rid of it? Please note, I think there is a way since…
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Android: Long Click on a GridView does not work

I have a longClick method on a grid view that does not work for the the 0 index position of the underlying ArrayList. However, if I add only one 'SentenceButton' I can remove it but not if I add many 'SentenceButton's. The primary code is as follows…
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Detecting lack of Bluetooth on Android devices

On the Kindle Fire, as there is no Bluetooth, according to the Android documentation (at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/wireless/bluetooth.html), if a developer calls 'getDefaultAdapter()', it should return null. However, the Kindle Fire…
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How to convert HTML with transparent images to Amazon Kindle 3?

I'm trying to convert my website/book (HTML+CSS) to a single PDF for reading on Amazon Kindle but unfortunately Kindle does not support transparent GIF/PNG images (I have a lot of equations on my website that have transparent background). I tried…
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How to resolve screen ghosting issue in Kindle?

I am using KRepaintManager.paintImmediately(root, true) from start() in my main class that extends AbstractKindlet to refresh the screen, but there are still ghosting issue there. When pressing and dismissing Menu - the screen clears up. I am…
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Kindle Reader Addon SDK

Does anyone know if there is an addon SDK for the Kindle Reader? I don't want to develop a full-blown app, just some additional functionality for the reader.
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How to write custom applications for Kindle 3G?

Just wondering whether it's possible to write custom applications for Kindle 3G ?
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Can i read and write files on the kindle filesystem from a kindle active content app?

Can Kindle Development Kit Applications read and write to files placed on a kindle by usb? my program would pretty much do the following 1.a user/supervisor places an xml or json file on the device using usb 2.at start read the file into the…
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Create Collections on Kindle DX via API?

Just looking for a while for a way to create collections on my Kindle DX by API...but didn't find one but only tools that should do it but didnt work. Does anyone know an API that would enable me to create collections with Java or at least c#? I…
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Kindle experimental browser giving all javascript contained within webpages the wrong time 7 hours ahead — How to offset?

I recycle old Kindles into mini weather stations through their "experimental browser". I create webpages showing the date and time along with weather data I put into iframes for use with the Kindle browser. Working great until I ran into weird…
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How to mimic Amazon's Word Wise anotation feature

When enabled, eInk Kindles and some Kindle apps display definitions above less frequently used words. For example: I tried to emulate this feature with tags, but it didn't work when the definition was longer than the defined word. Also, if…
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Sending ebooks from Linux Mint to Kindle Paperwhite via Calibre

I'm trying to send some ebooks from my Linux Mint desktio to my kindle paperwhite using Calibre and am getting the error: Starting job: Email Counter-Clock World to me@free.kindle.com Sending failed... Traceback (most recent call last): File…
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Using Mechanize to log into https://kindle.amazon.com/login

I am trying to use Mechanize to log into my Kindle account at Amazon. The login page URL is https://kindle.amazon.com/login I can manually log into this page without issue but if I try it using the following code it always fails with an error (see…
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