Nook: update for Firmware Improvements (v1.2 available)

Minor update for my Nook Firmware Improvements.
Version 1.2 include a better handling of "Full-Screen" feature, that now is handled directly through the reader menu.
Moreover, both Orientation and Full-Screen setting are now persisted across reboots.
Again (see this post), all credits for these new features go to user darkker of russian forum "The Electronic Book".

As usual, instructions and download on this page.

Nook: full-screen mode and landscape orientation on reader

With the version 1.1 of my firmware improvements for Nook, i introduced two more features for default Nook eBook-Reader application:

• choose text orientation between portrail (default) and landscape;
• choose to display or hide the top status bar (with title, battery status, time) in order to maximize the reading area.

For the orientation feature, all credits go to user darkker of russian forum "The Electronic Book". I just merged the modification he made with my code (in order to keep also the other improvements i made). This is the original link in russian (and its translation to english) to the thread where you can find more info about his implementation of this feature and its author.

As usual, instructions and download on this page.

Nook: new version of my Firmware improvements

I made a complete refactoring of the improvements i made on Nook firmware, and already described in the previous posts:

• font hack on epub Reader;
• custom max level on Go-To-Chapter feature of epub Reader;
• custom shutdown image.

With the last version, i introduced a configuration file that easily allow to enable / disable the various hacks and also to configure some parameters, without the need of messing with ADB.

Further info and download on this page.

Nook: Shutdown image hack

By default, when you power off the Nook reader (long-clicking the power button) the eInk display will be set with an all-white image (i.e. no image at all).
As you probably already know, a nice eInk display feature is that they don't need any power to display any kind of image: the power is only needed during page transitions. Therefore it is possible to let the Nook display any given image when it is powered off without any effect on battery life.
Unfortunately, this (pretty useless, i admit; it is just "for fun") feature is not present on original Nook firmware, so i decided to implement it with a small modification of firmware (actually, of an android system library).

More details and download on this page.

Nook: updated version 1.2 of Font Hack available

The new version 1.2 of Font Hack for Nook is available.
This version fixes a small bug that prevented the right indication of the currently used font in Preferences Menu of Epub Reader application.
Moreover, now if the file "name of the font.fontname" is imissing, the label "unknown font X" is used as font name instead of the corresponding default font of Nook, so to avoid possible ambiguities.

Further details and downloads in this page of the blog.

Nook: How to use any font in ePub reader

The ePub reader application of Nook provide the feature of choosing one of the 3 font families included (i.e.: Amasis, Helvetica Neue, Light Classic).
But there are many reasons why one would have the chance of using other fonts for viewing his own ePub documents:

• the standard fonts are not able to correctly render all the characters used in some languages (for instance, eastern-europe languages based on Cyrillic alphabet);
• you may find more readable, or simply like more, other fonts;
• you just want to have full control on any geek gadget you own.

You can find the complete procedure here.