If you like the Kindle Paperwhite and ever were thinking or wanted to start rooting or developing for this beautiful piece of Unix-based hardware wonder ... I'll sure find this page interesting. This article aims to give you a basic understanding of what it takes to root your Kindle Paperwhite so you can use it with complete freedom and do what you want with it.
Please note that at the moment my own tutorials are still hosted on my old website - I'm about to move them over - but until this task is not completely finished you will be redirected to my other - old main website. For you, that shouldn't make a difference except that if you click on a tutorial link my other page opens up in a new browser window. Just to make you aware ;-)
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