DIY LOTR ereader case

I picked up a used Nook Glowlight Plus with case for a great price, but I didn’t like the look of the case so I redid it with a map of Middle Earth and it cost me next to nothing! This method makes it look a whole lot like leather and the Middle Earth map looks great this way. I’ve done a few different cases with this technique and they all look great. If anyone wants a video tutorial, let me know in a comment. I thought about making one and putting it on YouTube.

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Creative Vision:M IDE HDD upgrade to microSD and battery replacement

After upgrade
I previously showed how I upgraded a ZIF Creative Vision:M to use microSD. This time I have an IDE version, not ZIF. I couldn’t find any good info on upgrading the IDE version so I thought I’d document it here.

Parts needed:

So for about $50 you give your Creative Vision:M a new battery and upgraded microSD storage.

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How to get album art to show on old MP3 players

I have a BUNCH of old MP3 players now. I take my favorite 120 songs and put them on all of them and use them. I finally got tired of only having about 20 of them show their album art and the others didn’t. I decided to figure out how to fix it. Here is what I found – by doing this, it made almost every one of the album arts show on my various MP3 players from Sony, Samsung, Sandisk/Sansa, Rockbox, Coby, Ruizu, etc.

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How to use Google Drive with KOReader using Webdav and Koofr for free

If you want to be able to get your epubs/ebooks from your Google Drive using Koreader, here’s a free way to do it:
  1. Put your ebooks into Google Drive (I use FBReader, but you can just use a folder in Google Drive)
  2. Sign up for a free 10GB Koofr account
  3. Add Google Drive to your Koofr account
  4. Create a password to access Koofr via WedDav (it’s at the bottom of https://app.koofr.net/app/admin/preferences/password )
  5. Add Koofr as a WEBDAV cloud storage option in Koreader and use the password you created in the previous step

Now you can access and download your ebooks from your personal Google Drive storage from within Koreader!