Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle

"The Clock" is a 24 hour hour long movie made by Christian Marclay which contains thousands of film clips each with a clock somewhere in them, so that the whole thing keeps the right time. Whilst scanning for the time in text may be tricky, the work involved in finding those clips is unimaginable. Sadly copies are only held by few museums.

I actually adapted Jaaps work to a web version of the clock yesterday.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jenevoldsen.com&#x2F;literature-clock" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jenevoldsen.com&#x2F;literature-clock</a>

This is awesome! I dug up my old 2nd gen Kindle in the hopes of following along, and sadly the battery is busted :(<p>Instead, I&#x27;m currently in the process of making a macOS screen saver to replicate this!<p>I&#x27;m blogging my updates at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamesliu.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;macos-screensaver&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamesliu.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;macos-screensaver&#x2F;</a><p>GitHub repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;disposedtrolley&#x2F;literary-screensaver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;disposedtrolley&#x2F;literary-screensaver</a>

That&#x27;s awesome! Up until now the only reason I have jailbroken every kindle I&#x27;ve owned is to have the screensaver be the book I&#x27;m reading rather than the dull preset ones. Finally I&#x27;ve found reason 2!

This is awesome. It would be cool to adapt the same idea to images which contain numbers (house numbers, highway exit signs, etc) like &quot;1245&quot; to represent 12:45. Since you&#x27;ve identified the number in the image, you could even blur the background slightly and add contrast between the image portion and background (since the numbers may only be a small part of the image).<p>Not very efficient, but a cool way of combining screensavers and clocks. Not sure how many &quot;aesthetic&quot; screensaver-quality images contain numbers though

E-readers are so cheap now that makes sense.<p>Years ago I built a little clock that displays &quot;It&#x27;s a little after 2&quot;. Ardunio-class CPU with a 2x24 character display. Looks dated now.<p>I&#x27;d like to build an e-ink unit that will run for a year on a battery.

Slightly related: A twitter bot telling the time using photos of Flavor Flav - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;flavorflavtime" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;flavorflavtime</a>

A colleague of mine made a photo frame out of his Kindle, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;f2prateek&#x2F;status&#x2F;1003019245125451776" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;f2prateek&#x2F;status&#x2F;1003019245125451776</a>

A friend of mine in college decided to make an LED clock for an EE project. Everyone else who decides to make an LED clock strives for accurate time. My friend decided that nobody needs time closer than quarter hour intervals. So that&#x27;s all it displayed - it was highly accurate to within 15 minutes.

This is brilliant. If you panckaged this up as a product you could sell a tonne of pre orders on Kickstarter

Literally just saw this on the verge, nice project. Sadly I don&#x27;t have an old kindle. I do have an old nook but I don&#x27;t know if its possible to do the same with that

Very cool. Don&#x27;t have a broken Kindle, so I decided to make a Chrome new tab extension to display these!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;literary-clock&#x2F;dkakoclgfplinfknmloejhabadnchdem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;literary-clock&#x2F;dka...</a>

I was expecting something more closely resembling a clock.<p>I suppose these days a clock doesn&#x27;t necessarily resemble a grandfather clock and I get that most clock don&#x27;t have arms any more but still...

That&#x27;s cool! I was looking into doing a project that turned old Kindles into Meeting Room Booking Signage. Did anyone stumble upon previous work in that direction?

This is so cool! Just one ask: If you have gone through all these trouble, just make a GitHub repo to store your files so people can fork, contribute etc.

I&#x27;ve been building something similar with a Nook Simple Touch. They run Android 2.1, and you jailbreak them in a similar way.

This is such a great, inventive idea. Would definitely like to have something akin to that as a screensaver, for example.

I wonder whether someone made a boarding pass display out of these. Zoom will be tricky, I guess.

Is there a way to do something similar for a phone&#x27;s lock screen background?<p>Or maybe even for a laptop

It is amazing that you throw away working and functional Kindles around when other parts of the world having one of those is extremelly expensive. Kudos for &quot;America&quot;, where everything (I mean everything) is disposable.

This is so cool! Thanks for sharing.

Oh so cool this!!

I cant‘t open this page in a sane way, because I‘m from the EU.