Hacking .palmkindle

1.  Get a terminal, preferably on a computer with a keyboard, but xterm will do.

2a.  Install Lighty Web Server.  Make sure it works by going to the http://localhost on the touchpad if its a blank screen,  restart.
or
2b.  Just open /skindle/readme.html after it is written in step 6

3.   Download file from below.  Extract it onto so it looks like /media/internal/skindle aka touchpad://skindle

4.   Copy the .mobi files you want to "/skindle/ready"  (use calibre if they are not)(also, set this directory in calibre as the ebook reader directory for future use)

5    Get a terminal and run:

cd /media/internal/skindle
bin/python skindle.py

6.  It will ask you to open localhost, do this now, or find it using internals and copy it to a computer
8.   A list should appear of the free samples to download.  Download them now.
9  Press Enter.  This step will overwrite your amazon samples with the correct name of the mobi file.

10.  ?

alpha2

e2:removed link, bugs...

1.   Install preware/quickinstall
2.   Install Lighty Web Server.  Make sure it works by going to the http://localhost on the touchpad if its a blank screen,  restart.
3.   Download skindle.zip from above.  Extract it onto so it looks like /media/internal/skindle aka drive://skindle
4.   Copy the mobi files you want to "/skindle/ready"
5    Get a terminal by quickinstall, ssh, or xterm/xserv.
6.   Run this exact command

/media/internal/skindle/bin/python /media/internal/skindle/term.py

7.   After it does its thing, go to the http://localhost on the browser.  If you cant get the webserver to work, copy skindle/ready/readinglist.html to a computer to view.
8.   A list should appear of the free books to download.  Download them now
9.   Everything "Should" have worked! (but it probably didn't)
10. As long as you have a terminal up, you can run these two commands to remove the sample overlay

 rm /media/cryptofs/apps/usr/palm/applications/com.palm.app.kindle/images/item-sample-banner.png
rm /media/cryptofs/apps/usr/palm/applications/com.palm.app.kindle/images/item-sample-banner-small.png


Thanks to
DCPeterson2000 on precentral.net for the free preview thing
joesacher.com for the original idea
twitter@thp4 for the python binary

Rewrote the whole thing to use BING, and works really really well, assuming you have a book that I tested.  Well in theory it should work if the book is listed on amazon, but I haven't found one thats not so let me know.

github.com/mrwulff

edit:

http://www.mediafire.com/?06izn5w1iof803r
exe version, no python required, extract to 'c:/skindle' or shotcuts wont work, or you can extract anywhere, and the exe is in the data folder.  It uses py2exe so it might not work for everybody.  Let me know if it does

another edit!
So i was thinking of a name that would work for sideloading kindle stuff, and I called it S-kindle, thinking that it was the coolest wordever, and just did a quick search and somebody thought of it.  Damn