If you have an old Kindle e-reader lying about then you&d best dig it up.
This cool hack can turn your dead e-reader into a living clock that scours hundreds of books for exact times and displays the current time in a quote.
It updates once a minute.The project, available on Instrucables, requires a jailbroken Kindle and little else.
The app uses quotes collected by the Guardian for an art project and includes writing from Charles Bukowski to Shakespeare.Creator Jaap Meijers writes:My girlfriend is a *very* avid reader.
As a teacher and scholar of English literature, she reads eighty books per year on average.On her wishlist was a clock for our living room.
I could have bought a wall clock from the store, but where is the fun in that Instead, I made her a clock that tells the time by quoting time indications from literary works, using an e-reader as display, because it so incredibly appropriate :-)Given that our family is apparently on our fifteenth Kindle in the household it only makes sense to repurpose one of these beasts into something useful.
Don''t have a Kindle You can visit a web-based version here.