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Will I be able to disable/delay screensaver on current kindle?
Hi, I'm thinking about buying a Kindle (the cheapest version) to use it as a digital recipe-display in my kitchen. One thing I'm concerned about is the screen-timeout I read about. I want the display of the device to stay on while I'm cooking.
So will I be able to somehow make sure that the screen stays on for at least an hour on an current gen kindle? I've never owned a kindle before, but I'm tech-savvy enough that doing some "hacking" wouldn't be a problem. |
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Kindle sleep screen time can't be altered in the normal Kindle menus. After 10 minutes of no activity, the sleep screen appears. E-ink Kindles aren't the best devices for cookbooks IMO, if that is what you're thinking. The small Greyscale screens just aren't the best option for that type of book, not to mention the navigation issues with badly formatted digital cookbooks.
Fire tablets have time-out options, as do other tablets like iPads. I use the Kindle app on my iPads for cookbooks, and have most of my own recipes in the Evernote app, also on all of my iDevices. I've used e-ink Kindles since 2009, but never for cookbooks or recipes. |
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If you are OK with rebooting after each use, you can disable sleeping on kindles, or you can buy a current paperwhite kindle (PW4) and jailbreak it, but you would still have to remember to re-enable sleep. Many people do not like to use kindles to display recipes for other reasons, but some do. |
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Does this still work on current Kindles? I came across this command on my search but some people always claimed that it doesn't work anymore with current firmware... Last edited by AllesMeins; 11-08-2020 at 05:02 PM. |
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You can hope that someone reputable who knows or is in a position to test will report or you can download a recent firmware from amazon and use kindletool to check whether /usr/bin/ds.sh exists, but that is more work than I am willing to do. |
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It sounds like your requirements make a traditional cookbook, on a stand, better for you. Or a recipe from your computer printed, then taped to a wall or kitchen cabinet for viewing.
What benefit are you expecting the Kindle to provide as a recipe display? A Kindle screen is much smaller than, and graphically inferior to, a cookbook or printed sheet of paper. At least your cookbook doesn't automatically close on you after 10 minutes. The only place I see for an electronic device displaying a recipe, is in an advertisement to sell you that electronic device. |
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About €8 for a folio cover stand by Trust. An ereader is monochrome and above 7" gets very expensive. Our Colour laser print usage has collapsed since I got a 2nd 10" tablet ![]() |
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I would also recommend an Android tablet. I have a bunch of recipes stored in Google Keep, which has very limited formatting, but it's a recipe so who cares. Even though I have a 10 inch tablet I almost always use my phone because it's near the kitchen and doesn't take much space.
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But ye canna beat eink for masses of text based fiction!
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I converted all my recipes to an ebook, and when I find more I like just keep adding. So easy to find a recipe I want using the table of contents. My PW4 works perfectly for me even when it times out after the 10 mins.
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Yes, that works well for text, or recipes you write up yourself, but not for fancy PDFs with juicy photos
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