POLL: Do you want Amazon to support custom screensavers?

[Trophywife007]

lol... "ugly dead people"  Gotta love that! 

[Xopher]

Custom images is one of the reasons I reluctant to give up my K1. I love having my own set of images instead of the default ones.

I think it would also be a good idea to have the actual open ebook as the screen saver. If the ebook doesn't have a cover, then display the default images. I would think that small gesture would go over well.

[CoffeeCat]

While I enjoy the preset screen savers, it would be nice to have custom screen savers as well.

[BTackitt]

With the new hack, my next to last reason for not upgrading to K3 bit the dust, but I still think this should be an Amazon supported item, so please Jason, send it in.

[NiLuJe]

Note that there seems to be some hints as to official support for user screensavers & user fonts sprinkled here and there in the Kindle FS... So this may happen (without hacks) one day .

EDIT: Yep, user fonts support confirmed & working.

[calypso]

The computer didn't have a canned response to that, so someone had to actually read it and send a reply. If enough people do it, maybe they'll finally get a clue.

lol. i used the words creepy fishes. i got a long response from the team apologizing and sympathetic to my plight but merely advised me to turn off the devise instead of letting it sleep as customizing or disabling it is not an option. oh well at least there's a hack now.

[911jason]

From what NiLuJe is saying, he's seeing evidence in the 3.0 firmware that Amazon may be planning to support custom screensavers. It sounds like it might just be a case of "flipping the switch" in a future update.

[paxxus]

NiLuJe, a true internet hero - thanks! Will try this hack when I get the curage. Wonder what happens if Amazon subsequently offers custom screensaver support while having this hack active at the same time...

[NiLuJe]

The hack will probably take precedence over the hypothetical official support. That depends on how Amazon implemented it though .

[galavanter]

I just picked up my K3 today. What I want, and forgive me if this has been stated previously, is the cover of the current book I am reading to be the screen saver. It seems like a no brainer to me, in line with Bezos' desire to "forget" the device and immerse yourself in a book.

The Kobo ereader already does this. It's also about time for a bookshelf view of books too. Long overdue in my opinion.

http://www.koboereader.com/experience.html

Scroll to bottom to find "Looks like a book, even when off".

[paxxus]

I just picked up my K3 today. What I want, and forgive me if this has been stated previously, is the cover of the current book I am reading to be the screen saver. It seems like a no brainer to me, in line with Bezos' desire to "forget" the device and immerse yourself in a book.

The Kobo ereader already does this. It's also about time for a bookshelf view of books too. Long overdue in my opinion.

http://www.koboereader.com/experience.html

Scroll to bottom to find "Looks like a book, even when off".

Yes, it is so painfully obvious that one wonders if there cound be some patent issues for Amazon.

[Samantha]

I just picked up my K3 today. What I want, and forgive me if this has been stated previously, is the cover of the current book I am reading to be the screen saver. It seems like a no brainer to me, in line with Bezos' desire to "forget" the device and immerse yourself in a book.

The Kobo ereader already does this. It's also about time for a bookshelf view of books too. Long overdue in my opinion.

http://www.koboereader.com/experience.html

Scroll to bottom to find "Looks like a book, even when off".

The cover of the book is only when the Kobo reader is in sleep mode. Which is for 15 minutes or so then it powers off. Then there's no screensaver.

I agree tho - I'd like the option of a book cover or BETTER screensavers. I hate the creepy dead authors. There are so many great things that could be put up instead. What about screensavers of libraries? ie NYPL, British Library. Or other architecture. It seems to me that would lend itself well to the screensavers capabilities.

[Nicolas]

Maybe a bit off-topic, but I'd love the ability to configure the time before the screensaver comes up or the Kindle puts itself to sleep. In London, I used it as a map (worked like a charm) but it was frustrating to wake it every time I spent too much time without interacting with it.

[stormhawk]

I would love to be able to add screensaver images ... I miss a couple of the ones that were part of the K1 set that have disappeared, and have some favorite engravings that I'd love to be able to use ... Durer, and this series of engravings of a madhouse in France.

An option to use the cover art of the book you're currently reading would be neat too.

[BTackitt]

While I wouldn't mind the covers of my books most of the time, there are times I definately do NOT want those covers showing up. So if it's a choice between the hacked SS and book covers, I want my hacked pics.. I can make my own bookcover SS and not have to worry about someone seeing something they might find ... inapproprite or offensive.