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If you lot accept an ebook reader chances are it'due south a Kindle. Today we're taking a look at ways you tin can get more than from your Kindle using built-in tools, experimental features, and third-party software. Read on to supercharge your Kindle feel.

You might take bought your Kindle, used it to buy some titles from the Kindle store, and thought that'southward all there was to Kindle ownership. Millions of Kindle owners are perfectly happy with that arrangement just you tin can squeeze much more life and enjoyment out of your Kindle by digging into the device, employing tertiary party hacks and software bundles, and more.

Jailbreak Your Kindle for Custom Screensavers

Jailbreaking your Kindle doesn't give you quite the range of tools and abilities that jailbreaking an iPhone does but information technology's yet a pretty corking trick to actually customize your Kindle to fit your personality. On my Kindle, for example, I replaced the default screensaver with a large collection of pinup paintings by American pinup artist Gil Elvgren (pack available here) and on my married woman'due south Kindle I replaced information technology with a drove of Wonder Woman fine art (pack available here).

You can follow our guide to jailbreaking your Kindle here (and continue up on the world of Kindle jailbreaking here for the latest and greatest hacks). Creating your ain screensaver images is easy; we detail how in our guide. If yous'd prefer to custom without the work of cropping and scaling your own images make certain to check out some of the online Kindle wallpaper depots like this Kindle wallpaper Tumblr and KindleScreensavers, as well as searching Google for Kindle-friendly images like so.

Format Not-Kindle Store Books for the Kindle

When you buy books on Amazon.com or from your Kindle they make it neatly formatted and set up to stone on your Kindle. If you take ebooks that you have purchased from other sources like PDF, ePUB, LIT, or other formats y'all likely desire to read them on your Kindle. The Kindle can natively handle the post-obit file types: MOBI, Cathay, TXT, and TPZ. The Kindle, as of firmware 2.3, also supports PDF files. PDF files aren't usually formatted for ebook readers (the margins are huge, the fonts don't scale, etc.) so even though you can load them on your Kindle yous'll likely desire to convert them.

Fortunately Calibre, a 3rd party and open source ebook manager, is amazingly robust and perfect for managing an ebook library of any size and with practically any device. Nosotros've shown you lot earlier how to catechumen PDF to ePUB and how to convert Word docs to ePUB using Calibre. You can easily swap out the ePUB role for MOBI and convert to your middle'southward content for your Kindle. If yous're curious which formats are the best for conversion, they lay it out in their extensive FAQ here.

Formatting Manga for Crisp and Like shooting fish in a barrel Reading on Your Kindle

Perhaps your problem isn't that you want to convert one book format to some other volume format but that you want to read flick-based literature on your Kindle. Many Manga fans detect, for example, that the Kindle is roughly the size of a Manga trade paperback and that the grayscale screen is a great match for the grayscale of Manga artwork.

The lucifer seemed like such a perfect fit that 1 Manga fan fifty-fifty created a program called Mangle to help Manga (and comic book) fans optimize their collections for reading on the Kindle. You tin can check out our guide to using the awarding here. Even if yous're not a Manga fan, Mangle is an awesome awarding for optimizing your Kindle screensavers. When we ran it through our collection it shaved the size past 40+% without whatsoever noticeable loss in quality.

Score Thousands of Free Books Online

This tip isn't Kindle-specific, merely it's worth mentioning hither. Although the Kindle Shop has a big free and discounted books section (if you haven't checked it out nonetheless and you lot're a Kindle owner, you actually should) there are many other places to find free books online—and y'all won't even have to hoist the Jolly Roger to go them.

Catalogs of public works, book giveaways, and more than all contribute to the puddle of free books available. Check out our guide to finding free books across the web here.

Access Your Ebook Collection Anywhere in the Earth

The Kindle'south 4GB storage chapters is more enough to concur thousands of books but if you're a defended bibliophile you never want to be without your books, correct?

Never detect yourself settled into a lounge chair at your favorite resort simply to notice you forgot to re-create the books over from your computer to your Kindle. Calibre, the awesome ebook direction application we promoted earlier in this guide to help with book conversions, too has a sweetness media server built in that will assistance you link your Kindle (or other ebook reader) to your ebook library wherever you may roam. You tin read all about configuring the media server hither.

Convert Web Manufactures for Your Kindle

Reading books on the Kindle is great but there's no demand to limit yourself. You lot can both scan the web and read web-based articles from your Kindle and, from the condolement of your figurer, send manufactures wirelessly and neatly converted to your Kindle.

The first method requires no exterior attempt. Navigate on your Kindle to Carte du jour –> Experimental –> Web Browser and then dial in the address of a site you desire to read articles on. When you find an article y'all want to read and then all you lot accept to do is hitting the Enter key and navigate the zoom pane that appears to highlight the body of the article (instead of the ads, sidebars, and such). Press the Menu button again and select Article Mode. The Kindle will zoom and reformat the text for you lot. Information technology's non perfect only information technology works pretty darn well most of the time. You can see the results in the screenshot above.

Alternatively yous tin take advantage of the Kindle delivery service. Your Kindle has a unique electronic mail accost that you can email files to. These files are and so converted and wirelessly transferred to your Kindle. You can read about how to identify and use your Kindle email address here. One time you know what your Kindle email accost is y'all can use the awesome Kindlability bookmark to zip manufactures correct from your desktop browser to your Kindle.

Update Social Media Accounts from Your Kindle

Although nobody is going to toss bated their smartphone to start browsing Facebook from their Kindle, you lot tin can push button social media updates from your Kindle to both Twitter and Facebook. The entire setup is designed to go far like shooting fish in a barrel to share snippets of text from books you are reading. If yous're interested in playing around with it navigate to Carte du jour –> Settings –> Social Networks –> Manage. There yous can authorize your Kindle to access both your Twitter and Facebook business relationship. The sharing is fairly archaic and would, ideally, share a tiny URL to the book you're talking virtually, simply for at present you're limited to sharing quotes from the book that tin exist appended with a custom message.

Play Games on Your Kindle

Your Kindle is no smartphone and in that location's no chance at all y'all'll be convinced of that past the quality of the games on it. None the less there are some little Easter Egg games hidden on the Kindle. From the main screen you can printing ALT+SHIFT+M to load upwards Mine Sweeper. Once you've loaded up Mine Sweeper you tin printing the G key to load upward a copy of GoMoku. Yous're not going to become confused and remember you're playing Aroused Birds only if y'all're taking a pause from reading a dense novel it's a nice niggling distraction.

Accept a Kindle tip, trick, or hack to share that we didn't cover here? Have a collection of tricks to share for other popular ebook readers? Sound off in the comments and share your wisdom with your boyfriend readers.