Not information for the average Amazon Kindle user…but if you’d like to see the insides of your device and maybe go a little beyond what Amazon intended for you to do, check out these links.

Amazon Kindle Take-Apart [from Rapid Repair] – “RapidRepair has completed the new Amazon Kindle disassembly guide. With the slicing and dicing complete, you need only look down to see the internals of the new Kindle from Amazon…”

Kindle boot log [from Reversing Everything] – “So the Kindle has a console running. Lots of interesting info here…”

Hacking the Kindle part 1: getting the console [from Reversing Everything] – “From reading the sources published by Amazon, it was clear that Kindle has a console running at least during boot. And there was an unconnected port available from outside…”

Hacking the Kindle part 2: bootloader and firmware updates [from Reversing Everything] – “The Kindle uses Das U-Boot bootloader. To break into the interactive shell, just press any key right afer reset. ‘help’ gives a list of available commands…”

Hacking the Kindle part 3: root shell and runtime system [from Reversing Everything] – “After I downloaded and extracted the root fs image, I quickly ran the /etc/shadow file though John the Ripper. In a moment it displayed the root password: ‘fiona’ (which is the codename for the Kindle, by the way)….”