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Update 2011/05/16: Updated links to new Duokan version 0.5.13.8941 (2011/05/13) with english language
preconfigured and to the original chinese version. Please leave a comment including your kindle model (2,
3, dx or dxg) if the english language version shows up with another language after installation.
Release notes for Duokan released on 2011/05/13, translated from chinese by google:
The restoration of the Bug:

1 mobi page formatting missing when turning brush along
2 Click OK several times into the bookstore or the back instant crash
EPUB, CHM, DOC and djvu documents on your Kindle? It’s possible! The alternative OS for Kindle,
Duokan, is now available with an english GUI supporting these document types. Duokan works with Kindle 2,
3 and DX and it will install besides the original OS, so you’re able to switch easily between it and the original
Kindle OS.
Kindle3 Duokan Home
You may download version 0.5.13.8941 (2011/05/13) with preconfigured english language from my site or
always the current version through the regarding chinese forum post at the Duokan website where you also
could find the chinese installation instructions. For english installation and upgrade instructions see below. I
don’t understand chinese so I’ve used the instructions translated by google. Also check this english thread at
their forum.
_ Kindle3 Duokan displaying an EPUB
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Duokan – the alternative Kindle OS – in english – flip's http://flip.netzbeben.de/2010/11/duokan-available-with-english-gui-today/
Kindle3 Duokan displaying a PDF normally
Kindle3 Duokan displaying a PDF with Smart Layout
With Duokan you’re not just able to read EPUBs. Another convenient feature is that Duokan is able to
change the font size or crop the white border for PDFs. To crop the white border, open the PDF, press “Aa”
and select “Screen Zoom A”. To change the font size, open the PDF, press “Aa” and select “Smart Layout”.
After this you may press “Aa” again and adjust the font size. While the crop feature leaves the original PDF
design untouched, the smart layout feature tries to adjust the PDF, so the results may be dissatisfying. You
should bear in mind that the current version is a beta version.
When I was playing with the WLAN feature which is not working for my WPA2 secured WLAN yet, Duokan
had frozen up. Don’t panic if this happens to you. You’re able to reset your Kindle by pushing the power
switch for 15 seconds.
For more discussion about Duokan check their forum or also this thread concerning Duokan at
mobileread.com.
Installation instructions:
1. Get Duokan with preconfigured english language

2. Connect your Kindle to your computer via USB
3. Open the Duokan archive and copy the folders DK_System, DK_Documents and DK_Pictures to your
Kindle root directory.
4. Also copy all the .bin files from the corresponding subfolder in 升级包 (e.g. k3升级包 subfolder for
Kindle 3) in the archive to the Kindle root.
5. Disconnect USB
6. Make sure that your Kindle is charged (at least 50%)
7. On your Kindle, press “Home”, then “Menu”, then select “Settings” and then press “Menu” again.
Choose “Update Your Kindle”
8. Kindle restarts and after restarting be quick and press Q for Duokan (W is for the original Kindle OS).
If you’re not fast enough, go to Home, then Menu, then select “Settings” and then press Menu again.
Choose “Restart” and be quicker pressing Q next time. In some cases you will get back to the
original Kindle OS after updating. If this happens to you, choose “Restart” in the settings menu.
_ 9. That’s it! In the settings you now might want to add your ebooks of your original installation to
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Duokan. To do this, simply go to “Home” in Duokan, press “Menu”, select “Settings”, find
“Other->Use Kindle Lists” and select “Yes”. Additionally you may copy some ebooks to your
DK_Documents folder to use them only in Duokan.
Upgrade instructions:
1. Switch your Kindle to the original Kindle OS if it has been switched to Duokan before. To do this in
Duokan, press Menu, select “Settings” and then select “Switch to Kindle”.
2. Then follow the installation instructions above, with a minor difference: there’s no need to copy the
empty DK_Documents and DK_Pictures folders again. You could also delete the old DK_System folder
first, maybe some files are not needed any longer. And again, don’t forget the bin files.
To uninstall, start Duokan, open the settings and select “Uninstall System”.
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215 Responses to “Duokan – the alternative Kindle OS – in english”

1. montalex, on November 6th, 2010 at 21:50 Said:
Correction for language setting:
Select #0 for settings (a little wrench symbol)

go to page 3, select 3, then select 2 for English. (you have 5 choices, which are:
0. Simplified Chinese
1. Traditional Chinese
2. English
3. Japanese
4. Korean
Sorry for the mistake.
2. flipkick, on November 6th, 2010 at 22:13 Said:
thanks, I’ve corrected it.
3. Lion, on November 7th, 2010 at 08:35 Said:
Are special characters (for example the german “ö, ä, ü, ß”) working?
4. Polvo, on November 7th, 2010 at 09:22 Said:
Good work flip, I’m now enjoying Duokan on my K3…

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@Lion: The german umlauts are not working yet. There is an english discussion at the duokan forum
concerning this issue: http://duokan.com/forum/thread-4742-1-3.html
6. Brano, on November 7th, 2010 at 11:07 Said:
I have one slight problem with you instructions above – the option “Update Your Kindle” is grayed out
(i.e. inactive) on my Kindle 2.
Any idea why’s that?
Btw. I’m based in Slovakia, if that matters.
Thanks in advance!
@Brano: Did you copy the .bin-files to the root directory of your Kindle? If not, Kindle won’t find an
update, thus the option will be grayed out.
8. montalex, on November 7th, 2010 at 17:08 Said:
@Brano: Make sure it is the file inside the bin folder and not the folder that you copied to Kindle root.
Also, if you have any but the most recent jailbreak installed, you will have to remove it.
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12. s_oleg, on November 10th, 2010 at 22:58 Said:
That’s a problem here, shows the error U007 crashes and loaded as usual.
B009 and the software version is 2.5.5 (495460008)
@s_oleg: check if your problem persists with the new version
14. Fernando, on November 14th, 2010 at 01:32 Said:
Hi,
Duokan is not good for spanish alphabet: á, é, í, etc. seem no good in space word and font type.
Any solution?
Thanks
_ 15. flipkick, on November 14th, 2010 at 01:47 Said:
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@Fernando: same for german umlauts. They also don’t work with a german font. I’ve reported this
bug.. Let’s see what happens. They release a new version of Duokan every saturday.
16. Fernando, on November 14th, 2010 at 10:19 Said:
Thanks, my problem is that my kindle 3 is a gift from a friend in other country. I can´t make collections,
due to I can´t to register my kindle in Amazon…
Duokan solve the collections y more, but books in spanish are unreable. I waiting for the news version.
17. jvcastel, on November 16th, 2010 at 13:26 Said:
Hello Flip,
I carefully followed your instructions to instal Duokan in my Kindle DX Graphite and it installed
without problems.
What I can’t do is to switch the menu into English!
I go to menu 0 (Wrench), go to page 3 and I find a five items menu labeled A to E.
If I push D, it takes me to a 22 page long document with some Chinese caracters on the first row and
then a paragraph with the first words as: “intelfan wywwfj cainiao_1 yoursguang intelfan” which I
understand the same as with first row in Chinese that is, nothing!
If I choose option E, it takes me to another document with 12 pages which is all in Chinese and the
words USB, kindle, DK_Documents, AA and SYM in between.
So up to now it has been impossible for me to set the language into English.
Option A displays the version of Duokan (0. 5. 13. 6889 Beta 1113) and cannot be selected
Option B Displays only Chinese characters and blinks a legend which quickly disappears also in
Chinese
Option C Displays what I Think is the network version (1.4/3.3G) and also cannot be selected
I think I installed Duokan correctly since I copied a couple of DJVU documents in English and I can
read them both.
For installation I used the DXG version of the bin file, I didn’t tried with the DX bin file
Finally I tried the version posted in top of this article and also the version available at the Duokan web
page with identical results.
Any advice will be greatly apreciated.
Regards from Mexico,
jvcastel
18. jvcastel, on November 16th, 2010 at 13:42 Said:
Hello again!
I found it! Pushing thru several buttons I figure out:

Select option 0 on the menu (Wrench)
Go to PAGE 2 (Not 3)
Select Option G (D )
Select option 2 English
Thats it!
Since the DX has a larger screen, the menus are laid out differently than their 2 and 3 cousins.
Thanks a lot for such a great work!
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jvcastel
@jvcastel: thank you for sharing this information concerning DX. I’ve added it to the installation
instructions.
20. berty, on November 24th, 2010 at 15:35 Said:
the Duokan_0_5_13_7107__2010_11_20.rar has no DK_Pictures and DK_Documents folder.
I can’t find 升级包 folder for Kindle DXG) in the archive
please assist me in how to install duokan in DXG.
Thank you in advance
@berty: but these folders are in that file actually
22. berty, on November 26th, 2010 at 03:49 Said:
Thanks flip.
I found the files after setting the locale setting of Windows 7 back to English (I had left it in Japanese
for a project).
23. Alex, on November 28th, 2010 at 22:28 Said:
I have the same problem as Brano’s. Copied the bin files into Kindle root but Update Your Kindle is
grayed out.
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25. Alex, on November 29th, 2010 at 00:01 Said:
Sorry, it works. My mistake — I had copied the wrong .bin file (I have DXG). Thanks for all these
instructions flip.
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27. zetlorf, on Dezember 5th, 2010 at 20:06 Said:
Why the special characters (ex. á, é) not working correctly? I have the latest version (12.05), but they
_
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still dod not correct the bug. Very annoying…
28. Mehdi, on Dezember 9th, 2010 at 01:19 Said:
Hi dear Flip
I’m very happy that I found about Duokan in your website. Thanks for the great job. But I still cannot
find a way to disable the screensaver in Duokan. All it offers is a user-selected set of pictures. Please
teach me what to do.
29. Victor Ph., on Dezember 9th, 2010 at 09:25 Said:
Flip, thank you for your page. It help me and, I hope, many-many people. All functions work (only I
can’t create the folder for mp3. My Kindle 3G WIFI don’t see mp3 files in the folder My_Music).
Victor Ph.
30. Sean808080, on Dezember 13th, 2010 at 17:23 Said:
I had a heck of a time getting it installed on my K3. It turns out I had to update my original jailbreak
and then install Duokan. Finally got it up and giving it a spin. thanks for the tip.
31. Vadim, on Dezember 17th, 2010 at 18:36 Said:
Hi. I habe problem with it. Could you please help me?
I do everything according the instruction, get the “normal” message “Update was not succseful” after
about 5 seconds, then the system quickly restarts and i see everything like it was before. I have Kindle
DXG.
Please tell me, what can i do.
32. flipkick, on Dezember 18th, 2010 at 16:50 Said:
@Vadim: did you copy the bin-files in the kindle root? Or maybe you’re using a jailbreaked Kindle?
I have copied bin files into the root directory, otherwise the option Update Your Kindle would not be
available.
I have also tryed to install Jailbreak to my Kindle (before Duokan) to see russian letters, but it was not
successfull too.
I have just restored to Factory Setting.

Jailbreak steps should have been deleted. But the problem with installing of Doukan is exactly same.
Vadim! I have Kindle 3G WIFI. Duokan is installed correctly. Only clock works badly, and Russian
fonts in file names and russian texts I see with big intervals. In other forum I see that Kindle DXG after
Duokan installation give error message. But it installed. Try, please, the following: 1) install Duokan; 2)
do not try at first restart to press 1 (“Q” in Kindle 3); 3) restart Kindle… and at about 70 sec You may
be see invitation to press 1 (“Q” in Kindle 3). Good luck to You!

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Victor Ph
Hey thanks, i will try.
Should i delete Jailbreak at first? Will i lose all hacks that i have doing that? Or should i restore to
faktory settings again?
37. Hoser, on Dezember 20th, 2010 at 14:11 Said:
Hello
First of all thanks for the great information on this site.
I have a kindle 3 and installed the latest version released Dec 18 2010.It installed with no problems
except I’m unable to change language settings from Chinese to English.
I followed the instructions “then press J (Settings), go to the third page, select C (Language), select C
(English)”….. and nothing changes even after a reboot.
I tried going into all 4 pages and messed around with what I thought might be the right settings and was
unsuccessful it still Chinese.
As a note when I installed the Dec 12 2010 version it worked.
I must be doing something wrong or this release is only in Chinese ?
Another odd thing is it normal when viewing PDF files with “reflow” on the pictures are missing ?
I’d really like to get my Kindle3 working with the Duokan OS because from what I’ve seen Amazon
has a lot to learn.
Thank you
Jose
I was looking this picture for 4 hours. Please post it in your topic on the top.
http://www.lesen.net/wp-content/gallery/nov10/j.jpg
Vadim! I repeat: i have Kindle 3G WIFI. Go, please, to http://www.mobileread.com/forums

/showthread.php?t=105316&page=22 and page 23. There is info for Kindle DXG.
On Kindle 3G WIFI I have (1) Jeilbreak, (2) fonts et savers, (3) rusification, (4) fbKindle and (5)
Duokan – version of 20101218. All works (all of them have some limits. That is cause of Three-in-One
configuration).
40. Hoser, on Dezember 20th, 2010 at 18:31 Said:
Ok some progress
On the Kindle 3 wifi with the new release Dec 18 beta 1218.
To change the language to English.
hit MENU
select J (SETTINGS)
Go to PAGE 3
SELECT “E” (Language)
then for English select “C”
No need to reboot )
41. jernej, on Dezember 20th, 2010 at 22:52 Said:
Tried to apply english language on my Kindle 2 DX international…none of the above instructions

helped. Language settings were on page 2 under leter I
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42. Desperado, on Dezember 21st, 2010 at 01:14 Said:
I dunno what u guys are talking about but for DXG language can be changed by going to the page 2 and
choosing menu I. I just had to go though all the options cause none worked from original description.
43. Ciro Mattia Gonano, on Dezember 21st, 2010 at 15:19 Said:
Thanks for the tutorial, Flip!

A note: update the step for selecting english language, for in the last update is on page 3, step “E” (not
“D”) – maybe it can make someone’s life easier
PS: I don’t understand WHY they put “English” in Chinese chars under Language selection… why am
I supposed to be able to read Chinese if I want to go English?
44. Vadim, on Dezember 21st, 2010 at 19:25 Said:
Victor Ph
Thanks, i got it all to my Kindle DXG too. thanks.
I just ask everybody to pay attention to the picture (link in my previous post), because there you can
see picture how to switch Duokan to english.
I spent a lot of time searching for it and i would like to share this information.
45. flipkick, on Dezember 21st, 2010 at 19:36 Said:
The menu keys change in the different Duokan versions. Thanks to everybody who has reported the
correct keys for the current version! I’ve just updated the article and I’ve also added a note about the
changing keys in the instructions.
46. flipkick, on Dezember 21st, 2010 at 21:13 Said:
No more language setting worries! Now you can download Duokan with preconfigured english
language. In the article you’ll find updated download links and installation instructions.
47. Alex, on Dezember 22nd, 2010 at 17:41 Said:
Did anyone find a way to disable the screensaver (i.e. sleep mode)?
48. Den, on Dezember 23rd, 2010 at 11:08 Said:
Hi!
Is it possible to change standart fonts?
I want to have cyrilic fonts.
49. Ry, on Dezember 25th, 2010 at 11:43 Said:
Okay, so here’s my problem.
I have a DXG, no jailbrake or other foreign files (except for MP3s, PDFs, and whatever Calibre puts on
the Kindle), and when I try to load Duokan the OS attempts to load 4 times, gets about half way each
time, then gives up and reboots back into Kindle mode.
I have placed all the filed in the root file. I found the one bin update file under DXG, put it in the root
_ file, and was able to update. I got the screen that said update was unsuccessful, which is what I’ve read
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I am suppose to get. But still Duokan does not boot up.
I even tried finding an earlier version of Duokan (no english) and installed it the same way. It DID
work. I got into that OS fine, but there was no English. And when I tried updating it with the files from
here, I ran into the original problems.
To me it seems like the files are corrupt or incomplete, but I re-downloaded several times and
reinstalled multiple times providing the same results. This is the first time I’ve tried working with my
Kindle in this way, so there may be a basic step I’m missing.
Can anyone help me? Thanks.
50. flipkick, on Dezember 25th, 2010 at 18:58 Said:
i’ve just send to you an email, i couldn’t test for DXG, maybe the language config is wrong.
51. Ry, on Dezember 25th, 2010 at 19:47 Said:
Awesome. Got it working with Flip’s help. To get it to work, I edited DK_System/DK_Update
/dxg/DK_System/config.ini in TextEdit. I changed “language=1″ to “language=2″. Then I reinstalled
and it booted up fine.
Thanks!
52. korean21, on Dezember 27th, 2010 at 16:28 Said:
in duokan can i use korea Language ?
53. Scott, on Dezember 28th, 2010 at 04:18 Said:
I have the same issue as RY and I tried the fix but I cannot get Doukan to boot on my new Kindle 3
(Wifi Version). I get the boot screen, press Q and it has some progress bars to go across the screen, then
it just reboots again and goes to the Duokan menu again – I can get into the regular Kindle without an
issue – Ive tries installing few times and no luck…
Any ideas?
54. Scott, on Dezember 28th, 2010 at 14:57 Said:
Sorry, Turns out it must have been a corrupt download – after trying a few more times, I re-downloaded
the files and it works on my Kindle 3 now.
Thanks for the files!
55. Arnoud, on Dezember 30th, 2010 at 22:02 Said:
On DXG..I only get Chinese!

The english version does NOT work!
56. John Smith, on Dezember 31st, 2010 at 12:45 Said:
Hi,
_ I might be doing something terribly wrong, but I couldn’t get English to work in my DXG. Install went
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fine first time, no worries there.

Thanks for the good work!
J.
57. Ed, on Dezember 31st, 2010 at 15:21 Said:
Hi , I am trying to install “Duokan_0_5_13_7713__2010_12_25_english/” it to my Kindle 3 with no

luck…
1. I copied DK_Documents, DK_System, DK_Documents in to Kindle root directory and also

update_duokan_0b00a.bin I pressed “Update Your Kindle” than Kindle start updating his own stuff,
after restarts I didnt see any boot screen.
I tried to dont press “Update Your Kindle” but instead press “Restart” than I start getting error saying
that update was Unsuccessful pres “R” after i pressed red my kindle boot in to boot screen and I
pressed “Q” and than I saw this screen :
http://i.imgur.com/xhhfw.jpg
screen start flickering, after few flickering kindle restart again in to the KINDLE OS..
Is anyone know how to fix it? or maybe can give a link to the older version of doukan
thanks
58. flipkick, on Januar 1st, 2011 at 18:04 Said:
If the preconfigured english version doesn’t work for you, try to install the chinese version (check the
Duokan archive at http://www.netzbeben.de/dl/duokan/ ). If the chinese version works for you, edit
DK_System/DK_Update/dxg/DK_System/config.ini and change language=1 (chinese) to language=2
(should be english for DX/G) or language=3 (should be english for K2/K3). After that, reinstall. If this
happens to you, please post the correct language mode for your system. I test every release with my
K3, so this should always work.
59. Arnoud, on Januar 1st, 2011 at 20:28 Said:
Well I updated diokan with the file from above..and it has the correct DXG and language = 2 is set in
the config. But still installed duokan showed chinese.
Very strange….but managed to switch it into english via the chinese menu again.
I would suggest to Duokan persons to have when you boot the first time in Duokan that you can choose
the language to be used.
And english then as english and not as some chinese word for english.
But I will monitor the development and hopefully soon tey have the font fixed.
60. John Smith, on Januar 1st, 2011 at 21:27 Said:
Ok, I managed to change my DXG to english as well, if it helps, it was on page 2 of the menu, letter L
(below date and time)
Cheers,
J.
61. Bart, on Januar 3rd, 2011 at 15:23 Said:

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Hey Flip,
Does the Kindle read DRM-protected epubs that I buy in a European e-bookstore?
Thanks in advance!
Bart
62. KAOS, on Januar 3rd, 2011 at 15:50 Said:
Hi,
Thanks for the great posting about downloading and installing duokan. Its saved me £90 as I was going
to return my kindle and get a sony prs 650 so I could properly view PDF’s.
My only quibble is that the title is always displayed in the header when reading epub / mobi books. I’ve
looked through the settings to try to disable this, but to no avail. Is there a tweak to get around this?
Seems a real waste of screen space when you only have a 6 inch screen.
Regards,
KAOS
63. Mr White, on Januar 4th, 2011 at 18:31 Said:
Does anybody know if the problem with the special characters for spanish, portuguese, german and
others are solved? – ä á à ç ã …
The latest problem i found was the ç and ã didnt exist at all and were not rendered and the remainig
were rendered in a completely different font and size than the remaining text.
I tried to send this issues to the developers, but my chinese is a little bit… unexistent
64. roebeet, on Januar 5th, 2011 at 02:10 Said:
For those who are having issues getting this to run — make sure that your DK_System folder is about
160MB in size. I had the same issue where the Kindle software kept popping up and then I re-ran the
.rar expansion in a different tool – that folder size changed drastically.
You should see a menu pop up at some point, with three options. If the DK_System folder is corrupt,
you’ll never get this menu.
65. flipkick, on Januar 5th, 2011 at 03:12 Said:
@Bart, some DRM-protected epubs are displayed, others not. But you’re able to remove the
DRM-protection with a python script (use google).
66. Bart, on Januar 5th, 2011 at 13:39 Said:
Thanks Flip. I know DRM can be removed but I think it’s a pain in the ass for people that don’t know
that much about computers. I’m just gonna test it, thanks for your answer!
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71. Fernando, on Januar 17th, 2011 at 04:37 Said:
I am still waiting for the version that fix the bug about the spanish font for á, é, í, ó, ú… ñ
Please, Can you report it to me by e-mail when that version was release?
Thanks!!!
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73. Shupiluliluma, on Januar 20th, 2011 at 11:09 Said:
For cyrillic text – it splits the words at the end of the line and transfer some letters to the next line. This
is very undesired result and makes reading almost impossible. Is there a fix for this in the options?
74. My Kindle 3 and the Duokan OS Part 1, on Januar 20th, 2011 at 16:33 Said:
[...] I just found a so much better fix for the PDF reader on Kindle, that is the Duokan OS. Here is a
guide of how to install it on your Kindle: Duokan – the alternative Kindle OS – in english [...]
75. charonme, on Januar 23rd, 2011 at 00:41 Said:
Hi, is there any way of making the original Oxford dictionary (preloaded on K3) work with duokan?
76. spit007, on Januar 23rd, 2011 at 16:38 Said:
To use english in the kindle dxg, you can chose in the preference menu:
_ page 2, i and select de number 2 (i use this firmware:Duokan_0_5_13_7800__2010_12_31.rar)
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http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q114/mpcmpc/Duokan_Language.jpg
It work for me
———————————
Pour mettre votre kindle dxg en anglais, il suffit d’aller dans preference, page 2, i une petite fenêtre
s’affiche à ce moment là prendre le choix 2.
(j’utilise le firmware multilangue)
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q114/mpcmpc/Duokan_Language.jpg
@+
77. Mr White, on Januar 23rd, 2011 at 17:22 Said:
Does somebody know how/where to send bugs to the developers?
I find myself rebooting my kindle to read pdfs on duokan and rebooting again to read normal books on
kindle due to the problem with Portuguese/Spanish fonts on duokan (ç, ã, á, etc)… This is becoming
quite annoying and probably isn’t very difficult to solve for the developers!
78. dave, on Januar 24th, 2011 at 05:14 Said:
I tried to install on my new K3 but the update had no effect. After restarting it is just the same Amazon
OS. Perhaps a new version of the OS is preventing the installation?
79. dave, on Januar 24th, 2011 at 05:37 Said:
Well, I did get it to work. I took a guess that it might be the permissions of the files in the archive which
I noticed were not executable. So after I extracted the .rar file I did the following command in the
terminal (on Mac OS X):
chmod -R a+rwx duokan
Where ‘duokan’ is the directory which I extracted the archive to (I used the commandline ‘unrar’
command).
Then I copied the directores and ‘update’ bin files as before. It did not work after restarting
automatically after the upgrade, but doing another restart after that eventually brought up the duokan
menu.
80. Nerobot, on Januar 28th, 2011 at 17:42 Said:
First off: great project. Keep up the good work.
I initially tried to install Duokan “Duokan 0.5.13.7800 (2010/12/31)” but when ever I started the OS, it
would restart and I’d have to again type “G”. This would happen indefensibly until I gave up and
started the “normal” kindle OS.
Looking closer, it looks like the rar file was corrupted and not extracting correctly. The
DK_System/DK_Update/k3/DK_System/config.ini file was not in the normal folder (infact it was in a
new folder in the root of the extracted rar). I then placed this in the correct folder, reinstalled, and not it
seems to be running fine.
81. Gabriel, on Februar 2nd, 2011 at 19:51 Said:

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Hi man,
Thanks for this.
I have been using Duokan for some time and it’s just awesome.
I ran into a problem today, however. I was playing around with the TTS (text to speech) function and
my Kindle just froze. I waited for it to respond and nothing happened for about five minutes. Then I slid
and held the power button to hard reset it, and now all I see is a white screen and I can’t turn my
Kindle on!
What can I do??
82. Gabriel, on Februar 2nd, 2011 at 19:53 Said:
False alarm!
My Kindle is back on!
Thanks anyway.
83. Kat Price, on Februar 3rd, 2011 at 13:09 Said:
Hi, I’ve done the initial root menu stuff (or at least I think I have) but when I go to update, the ‘Update
my Kindle’ button is greyed out and unselectable – can anyone help?
84. LexS007, on Februar 7th, 2011 at 21:10 Said:
Hello. I want to translate Duokan from Russian. What files contain the text? How to unpack?
85. Odpicuj swojego Kindle | eKsiazki.org, on Februar 8th, 2011 at 14:28 Said:
[...] z nich jest instalacja chińskiej modyfikacji oprogramowania – Duokana. Jest ona dostępna w języku
angielskim, dodaje także tryb Smart Layout (reflow) przy czytaniu [...]
86. Teddy, on Februar 11th, 2011 at 01:15 Said:
I just updated to 3.1 firmware. Then I tried to install Duokan from (http://flip.netzbeben.de/2010/11
/duo…ish-gui-today/)
but doesn’t work!!
So it seems impossible to install Duokan if the firmare is 3.1.
The message is something like: “the update was not succesful”.
87. iliaj, on Februar 11th, 2011 at 23:57 Said:
Be warned that on updated kindle 3.1 is not possible to install Duokan!!!
So for now do not update Your Kindle to 3.1 if You Want to install Duokan.
88. Mr White, on Februar 12th, 2011 at 17:24 Said:
I had Duokan installed and updated to kindle 3.1 …. both kindle firmware and Duokan still work,
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although I dont use duokan because of the latin characteres issues á, è, ç …etc
89. iotour, on Februar 13th, 2011 at 17:57 Said:
Flip.Hi!
I tried to load duokan in 2.5.7 DXG but dont work the installation.
Can you confirm please that it doesnt work.
Thanks .John Greece!
90. flipkick, on Februar 13th, 2011 at 18:05 Said:
@Nerobot: I use WinRAR to create the archives. It is the official RAR utility. The RAR files are not
corrupted. Make sure you use an official and current unrar to decompress the archives.
91. Tip #9 A New Kindle OS | KindleTips, on Februar 14th, 2011 at 01:27 Said:
[...] people out there that are like, “That’s what I want!” So here is the link, Right Here. I loaded it to
see what it is about, I’m sure you can too if interested. Easy to uninstall, [...]
92. Dave Durgee, on Februar 14th, 2011 at 15:11 Said:
Has the problem with the 3.1 release been reported to Duokan? I suspect fixing this should be a high
priority on their list.
93. wenyew, on Februar 17th, 2011 at 06:53 Said:
Could it be that the kindle newer 3.1 firmware has a date check that does not allow back versions, be it
duokan or official fw not to install??
94. Donald Litton, on Februar 18th, 2011 at 20:14 Said:
http://www.duokan.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2208
95. Dmitrij, on Februar 19th, 2011 at 08:30 Said:
Duokan v0.5.13.8661 for Kindle DX Graphite. Switcher to english language is situated on the 2nd page
of settings On this page you should press an “J” button then press joystick button then choose last line
from list. To invoke “settings” you can press Alt+Sym keys on keyboard.
Can anybody check if this version render the latin characteres and punctuation on the correct font and
size, please? – á à ç ã
97. olivaw, on Februar 20th, 2011 at 10:48 Said:
Maybe this allows Duokan?

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122000
98. antaril, on Februar 20th, 2011 at 19:14 Said:
i have problem to install duokan on my Kindle 3 – 3.0.3!

_ I can update it, but shows now “Q” when i Restart it!!
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99. Dmitrij, on Februar 21st, 2011 at 07:02 Said:
The intersymbol interval for Russian letters is still two or more times bigger than it should be…
100. Stevo, on Februar 22nd, 2011 at 11:43 Said:
Hello,
I tried to install Duokan Duokan_0_5_13_8661__2011_02_18_english on kindle 3.1 but it does not
work…
101. My response to “Paying for Public Goods” | homeschoolerblog.com, on Februar 22nd, 2011 at
20:48 Said:
[...] Well that is not completely true. I have found that the CK-12 books are pretty well formatted. And
Duokan (if we can get old/unupdated Kindles) makes PDFs work wonderfully. If people are still
dead-set [...]
102. ule, on Februar 22nd, 2011 at 23:09 Said:
Hello,
I copied the dk_system directory to my kindle root and the update_duokan_0b00?.bin files too, but the
kindle always says after the update process “the update was not succesfully”. I have a kindle 3 (wifi)
with firmware 3. Any ideas? Anything I forgot?
Any help would be welcome.

Thanks
ule
103. olivaw, on Februar 23rd, 2011 at 20:32 Said:
I put Doukan on firmware 3.1 with Jailbreak 3.1.

Proceed with caution… but it works.
104. Miles, on Februar 24th, 2011 at 07:45 Said:
For installing Duokan on 3.1, see yifanlu’s patch:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1410147&postcount=448
105. Marco Ribeiro, on Februar 24th, 2011 at 18:33 Said:
Can I launch fbKindle in Duokan. Has Doukan a launchpad like kindle system?
fbKindle and Duokan together.
someone can make this happen?
Marco, if you plan to read more than PDF’s on a language that uses ã, ç, á, à, etc beware that Duokan
renders that characters on the wrong font and size and doesnt render ç at all, that becomes kind of
annoying on Portuguese texts, for example.
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107. Marco Ribeiro, on Februar 25th, 2011 at 12:36 Said:
Yyu can read epubs in Duokan without these problems if you install fbKindle.
Use Duokan for PDFs and fbKindle for EPUBs without ã, é, ç wrong font and size.
fbkindle works nicely with Duokan – except – you will have the clock and wifi symbols on the top if
you don´t open a PDF or ebook in Duokan before launch fbKindle.
Is the best of two worlds. My kindle don´t neek the Amazon system anymore.
108. Roland, on Februar 25th, 2011 at 23:24 Said:
The chinese forums http://www.duokan.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2208&extra=page%3D1 say

this can be done on 3.1. Gonna try today.
109. iliaj, on Februar 26th, 2011 at 16:28 Said:
New version of Duokan is working on kindle 3.1, no need for jailbreak.
110. installare Doukan e firmware, on Februar 27th, 2011 at 00:00 Said:
[...] (visto l'efficiente supporto) vorrei installare Doukan, ma: – ho scaricato la ver. inglese da Duokan –
the alternative Kindle OS – in english – flip's – dovrei copiare su root di Kindle. – da una shell di
Debian io ho queste cartelle: root@debkde:/# [...]
111. roebeet, on Februar 27th, 2011 at 04:21 Said:
Duokan confirmed working on my 3.1 Kindle. My device is back again!
112. Bryce, on Februar 27th, 2011 at 09:33 Said:
Duokan seems like a pretty awesome software. I prefer the polish of the regular Kindle OS, but Duokan
certainly seems feature full and fast, so it’s a very viable alternative. It really makes you wonder if
Amazon will actually be forced to put epub support on their device in the future. In the mean time, I’ll
stick to just converting with Calibre.
113. trazdum, on Februar 28th, 2011 at 22:42 Said:
Thank’s for this guide, all work really well now for pdf manual! But there is any way to use the Wi-Fi
whit my home-connection? I’ve lost something? Thanks a lot again
114. Sickhippie, on März 1st, 2011 at 08:18 Said:
I can’t get extra fonts to show up in Duokan – I put them in \DK_System\System\Font, but no new
fonts in the dropdowns. Any idea what I’m doing wrong here? I don’t think I missed a step…
115. montalex, on März 2nd, 2011 at 04:15 Said:
Same problem as Sickhippie — no fonts except the default in the font dropdown menu. I reverted back
to an earlier version, and had several font choices, including the Georgia 2 font I added to Kindle after
NiLuJe’s font hack. I tried installing Duokan version 0.5.13.8689 again, same problem. I uninstalled
and went back to an earlier version — all good.
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116. NIXin, on März 8th, 2011 at 02:39 Said:
Hi,
I get U007 error when trying to install latest Doukan on my Kindle 3.

Any ideas why?
I’ve got the Kindle jailbroken + using PhysKeyb, but nothing else is touched.
Thanks.
117. trazdum, on März 9th, 2011 at 10:00 Said:
I can’t go back to Duokan after the upgrade of Kindle DXG from 2.5.7 to 2.5.8. Tried to reinstall DK
but nothing change. Any ideas?
118. trazdum, on März 9th, 2011 at 17:11 Said:
Founded: I erased the DK_System and not replacede with the new folder, all work well now.
119. Belodalin, on März 9th, 2011 at 20:57 Said:
Hi,
I tried to install the above version on fw 3.1, but I continue getting ‘update unsuccessful’ messages. I
haven’t had previous Duokan versions, so I don’t know what the problem might be, but I do everything
as written in the instructions.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
120. Haekal, on März 10th, 2011 at 05:24 Said:
I already follow the instruction. Update was succesfull and then kindle is restarted, after kindle loading
the screen for choosing Duokan or Kindle is never appeared.
I try to restart again but the result always the same. After I check to the kindle root file.. The
DK_System folder is disappeared.
My Kindle version is 3.1.
Any Suggestions?
Thanks
121. Shupiluliluma, on März 10th, 2011 at 13:21 Said:
Do they plan to show chapter marks in the progress bar?

If they fix this and russian letters I will switch immediately to Duokan forever
122. flipkick, on März 10th, 2011 at 21:11 Said:
@Belodalin & Haekal: what kindle are you using? does the chinese version work for you?
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123. Mr White, on März 10th, 2011 at 23:28 Said:
Any news on the latin characters and punctuation (á, ç, ã , etc) ? Changing fonts won’t work – I’ve
tried.
My chinese is a bit rusty these days, can anybody point out on Duokan website were to post this bug
with the punctuation and characteres?
124. Belodalin, on März 10th, 2011 at 23:52 Said:
Meanwhile I got a solution for my problem: I had to uninstall jealbreak for duokan to install
successfully. Good new though: no need to remove any of the other (jailbreak-based) hacks, just
uninstall jailbreak -> install duokan -> put jailbreak back, and everything is working as they should.
Thanks for the effort anyway.
125. g2r, on März 11th, 2011 at 00:27 Said:
I’ve the same problem of Haekal.

I’ve tried to install doukan, but don’t work.
the DK_System folder is disappeared
I’ve Kindle 3.1… any ideas?
@flipkick : Chinese version doesn’t work either. My Kindle Software 3.1 (558700031). Always stay the
same…
127. Dimitry, on März 11th, 2011 at 10:21 Said:
Gents, just FYI
Russian guys has “stripped” Duokan file set, so now Duokan starts from orogonal Amazon environment
using Launchpad hack. I.e. you are not pressing Q/W keys at boot time, but running Duokan from
original Kindle SW any time pressing Shift-D-S. Furthermore, Duokan installation has simplified to a
simple files copy to Kindle’s flash drive, uninstall is just deletion of Doukan folders and so on. Now
Duokan can be installed even if jailbreak is installed at your Kindle.
@Haekal: are you using a jailbreaked kindle? if yes, Belodalin’s comment from yesterday comes with
the solution. Otherwise, what kindle model are you using?
129. g2r, on März 11th, 2011 at 23:08 Said:
I’m using Kindle Software 3.1 (558700031).

without hack.
130. bndrummo, on März 12th, 2011 at 18:27 Said:
First thanks so much for providing this version. I’ve been using it since around December, switching
back and forth between Duokan and Kindle OS, depending on the task. With the 0305 version, I found
_ that I was able to keep all of my documents in subfolders in kindle’s document area. This allowed me to
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access all PDF’s in both systems, with their folders becoming collections in Duokan, and being able to
set them to kindle collections, also. All was well. When I upgraded to 0311, this ability seemed to go
away. The documents are still available in Duokan but they are no longer in collections. Also, the
setting choice for loading or not loading kindle documents seems to have disappeared – they are now
always loaded. So, this precludes me from suppressing kindle document loading. I’ve switched back to
0305 temporarily but am wondering if I’m missing some sort of new feature about integrating
documents in the kindle directory into duokan directories. I run the DXG version by the way although I
doubt that matters in this case.
Thanks for any thoughts you might have.
@flipkick : I didn’t use any hack before… my kindle 3 is WIFI model. Maybe I’ll try another new
duokan update.
132. Viccio75, on März 14th, 2011 at 13:04 Said:
i’ve just installed the latest version. when i try to add a mobi file to a collection 8 files out of 10 the
system crashes and auto reboots
@flipkick : Doukan installed succesfully at last. Using the 2011/03/11 version.

My problem with doukan is always error in opening MOBI file. took so long, then sometime can
crash… so i’ve to reebot.
For mp3 player, i thing the speaker volume become very low compared with kindle.
134. Duokan for Kindle3 3G, on März 16th, 2011 at 17:14 Said:
Well, I have just tried install the newest Duokan version for my Kindle3 3G. Unfortunately, the version
for my kindle has not released yet. So 3G signal couldn’t prompt. Are there anyone write the OS for
Kindle3 3G
135. Fran, on März 18th, 2011 at 19:44 Said:
I installed duokan english version and it started after rebooting correctly, I chose “Q” and duokan
seemed to be starting but stopped in the last ball black progress and froze during a lot time.
After I reboot (soft and hard reboot) and I have only a white screen.
Any advice? Send to amazon?
136. Fran, on März 18th, 2011 at 22:00 Said:
Uff, I could restarted after full charge and 20 second slide reset.
@Fran, yes, exactly, the “20 second slide reset” will (hopefully) always help you if your kindle freezes
or crashes.
138. Haekal, on März 21st, 2011 at 06:49 Said:

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I think we missed fit to width view in landscape mode like kindle was. Maybe for the next development
it can be available at doukan. Hope so.
139. r42vy, on März 21st, 2011 at 19:27 Said:
nothing new about european fonts?(german, latin, etc.) hope to see them soon.
140. fabianhtml, on März 21st, 2011 at 22:41 Said:
Hello, i have installed Jailbreak (http://yifan.lu/p/kindle-jailbreak) in my kindle, and new fonts and
personalized screensaver.
Can i install duokan, without uninstall these Jailbreak?
141. Silvio Abruzzo, on März 23rd, 2011 at 11:11 Said:
Dear guys,
I installed duokan and I admit that is really nice. Usually, I use my kindle 3 for reading academic paper,
which are pdf file in a two columns format. I would like to know if it is possible to use at the same time
Screen Zoom:A and Comic: H. I tried but it seems that one option excludes the other one. I would like
to see only one column of the paper and at the same time to zoom in such a way that the whole screen
in horizontal is used.
Regards,
Silvio
142. danimar, on März 24th, 2011 at 10:24 Said:
I had the same problem that Fran had on a DXG, Duokan gets stuck at the last block of the loading bar.
I can boot correctly to Kindle OS though after restarting too. A shame, as I was keen to try the ‘smart
layout’ mode on PDFs.
143. Primeras impresiones con el kindle3 Wifi | El Blog de Daniel Santiago, on März 25th, 2011 at
01:35 Said:
[...] el mejor uso del Kindle. De la misma manera, cierta parte de esta comunidad ha desarrollado un
firmware alternativo, o se ofrecen gratis o venden aplicaciones (bloc de notas, traductores, …) que
quizá [...]
144. quqqu, on März 25th, 2011 at 13:57 Said:
Hi Flip,
thank you very much for maintaining this site. It is very helpful.
I’ve missed several firmware updates. Do you have an archive of features for each version?
Thanks!
@danimar: is the chinese version working for you? (you’ll find a download link at the very top of this
blog entry)

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@quqqu: for the history of changes visit http://bit.ly/eOOHlK .
147. quqqu, on März 26th, 2011 at 09:41 Said:
Thank you flip, handling of mobi and doc files is still better in original Kindle, but pdf is great in
duokan. In case you have connections to the developers, do you expect that international mobi and doc
viewing will be improved some time? Is there a way to access the source code?
cheers
148. speed, on März 26th, 2011 at 14:58 Said:
Hey there,
my display is partially frozen and I want to remove Duokan from my Kindle. Could anybody please tell
me which keys I have to press to uninstall it starting from the Home screen. I already found out that by
pressing “Menu” and “J” the settings menu appears. Thanks in advance!
Cheers!
149. Peter, on März 26th, 2011 at 17:07 Said:
I have Kindle 3 US version firmware 3.1 I tried to install Duokan but when I hit Update Kindle I get an
error message that update not sucessfull. Is this allright ?
150. John, on März 26th, 2011 at 21:34 Said:
Hey Flip,
I just installed Doukan on my kindle 3. Overall it’s pretty cool – the PDF manipulation seems to work
really well. Strangely, one of my PDFs (sadly the one which made me decide to install Doukan in the
first place) isn’t cooperating. I can’t zoom at all or change orientation. If I apply the ‘comic’ two panel
approach (which would work *perfectly* for this book), it does separate the panels onto different
pages, but the zoom doesn’t increase at all! Instead, I end up with 70% white-space on the screen. Is
there any reason why this specific PDF wouldn’t allow resizing? Any way I can modify the document
or Doukan to make it work?
All other PDFs work fine; I can zoom in and out, switch to two columns, go into landscape mode, etc
etc. It’s just the one that doesn’t work.
Thanks so much!
John.
P.S. Doukan is doing something for that one PDF, because it automatically removed the whitespace at
the border. It just won’t resize at all beyond that default. Again, thanks.
152. el eReader Castizo - Duokan, Sistema operativo alternativo para el Kindle [ACTUALIZADO], on
März 26th, 2011 at 22:01 Said:
[...] info: Duokan FAQ | Flip’s Website. Descargas: Duokan [...]

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I figured it out, actually. I suppose the reason it doesn’t zoom is because it’s still trying to see the whole
column in one screen. Once I go to the 4 panel layout rather than the 2 panel, it’s wonderfully well
zoomed for reading & the universe shines contentment. I really appreciate the blog post; it’s allowing
me to read this and many other documents which Amazon hasn’t and likely will never release in kindle
format.
154. andy, on März 28th, 2011 at 16:25 Said:
i’ve installed the 2011/03/25 version (latest). I was not able to open link in CHM file. My K3 just hang
and then restart. I’d rolled back to the prev. version.
155. Mark Rehorst, on März 28th, 2011 at 17:00 Said:
Works fine on my DXG. Boot screens and USB connected screen still show Chinese, but menus are in
English.
When updating you get a message that says the update failed, but you can ignore that- it will work fine
after the system restart.
It seems to handle largish pdfs better than the last version. I have a file that had painfully slow page
turns both forward and backward in the Kindle OS and in the previous Duokan that now allows fast
page turns both forward and backward.
156. Anon, on März 29th, 2011 at 18:40 Said:
Thank you very much. It’s fantastic. Good Job.
157. Vins, on März 29th, 2011 at 19:57 Said:
Hi.
Sorry about my poor English.
I have a new DXG and yesterday installed Duokan chinese, and changed to English. It worked well and
I changed between Duokan and Kindle OS many times. Then I returned to Kindle OS. I installed some
books and read them with Kindle OS.
Today I have tried to change to Duokan OS but It Duokan gets stuck at the last block of the loading bar,
like Danimar and Frank said.
I reboot the kindle (15 seconds…) and select Kindle OS.
I have tried some times to reinstall Duokan but it gets stuck at the last block.
Any ideas?
Another question: after restart option

Q = 1 for Duokan ,
W = 2 for the original Kindle OS, but
E = 3 ??? ( Uninstall ? )
158. Queen of the Grubs, on April 2nd, 2011 at 15:12 Said:
It looks great? I’d like to check it out, but I have a question first — does installing it interefere with the
guaranty?
159. Vins, on April 5th, 2011 at 14:02 Said:
Install Duokan stuck at the last block, SOLVED !

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CLEAN INSTALL !
First “Reset to Factory Defaults” your Kindle:
Settings Reset to Factory Defaults.
Then install Duokan.
160. Shupiluliluma, on April 5th, 2011 at 15:14 Said:
What does this “Restoration of the bug” mean? Do they really restore bugs in newer versions?
Or some funny google translation. It doesn’t make any sense.
161. flipkick, on April 5th, 2011 at 18:20 Said:
Google’s translation is bad, but better than nothing. I would translate “Restoration of the bug” as
“Bugfixes”.
162. Kindle – die ersten Wochen | Christoph Becker, on April 6th, 2011 at 18:31 Said:
[...] In den nächsten Wochen werde ich die alternative Firmware etwas genauer unter die Lupe nehmen
und ggf. ein Tutorial bereitstellen. Vorab schon einmal ein Link Englische Anleitung – Duokan
installieren. [...]
163. Alex, on April 7th, 2011 at 01:12 Said:
Hi, guys, I am quite keen to find a way to disable the screensaver in Duokan. Did anyone manage to do
this? Cheers.
164. sichroteph, on April 7th, 2011 at 14:16 Said:
@alex :
menu
settings
jump to page 3
last line : screensaver display, check no
165. Giulio, on April 9th, 2011 at 11:35 Said:
Hi flipkick,
again no solution for Accented Characters… ?
166. underlining?, on April 9th, 2011 at 13:11 Said:
Hi,
Just installed it and still trying to figure out the system. Many thanks for the suggestion and instructions.
Can we do underlining in Duokan? It seems we cannot, right? Does it have anything similar to the
Kindle system in this respect?
Lastly, it seems manual trimming can be handy in some cases. How is the option next to manual
trimming (pen on screen picture) different from trimming?
167. Ebook reader dilema - HEXUS.community discussion forums, on April 9th, 2011 at 13:20 Said:
_ [...] formats. Calibre is quite good, but since installing duokan, I have not had the need to use it!
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http://flip.netzbeben.de/2010/11/duo…ish-gui-today/ http://www.mobileread.com/forums
/sho…d.php?t=105847 [...]
168. Houhn, on April 9th, 2011 at 23:14 Said:
Do umlauts work?
169. underlining?, on April 10th, 2011 at 07:58 Said:
I am very sorry for 3 consecutive superfluous comments (please delete the previous ones).
I found out screen rotation as well.
The only problem I have now is underlining in the A mode (horizontal fit, normal screen rotation), and
underlining in landscape (screen rotation).
170. kristquark, on April 10th, 2011 at 09:58 Said:
just installed it to my DXG. work flawlessly!!!
reading PDF is now much better compare to original FW
By the way I notice that in pdf book when I change to page to next or previous one the screen look not
as clear as in the original FW (look like something from the previous page still remain on the screen). Is
it any solution for this problem?
sorry for my poor english
171. Franco, on April 10th, 2011 at 12:03 Said:
Flip,
thank you so much for your efforts! I had stopped using

my DX out of frustration, but now I use it again–thanks to
Duokan —
One question: why is the text on PDFs not as crisp on Duokan as it is on the Kindle OS? On the Kindle
OS, the characters on PDFs are nice and clean, while they are a little fuzzy on Duokan. Do you think
they will address this problem?
172. Rishi, on April 10th, 2011 at 22:54 Said:
Wonderful. I installed on my Kindle 3 with 3.03 firmware. I works like a charm. I only bought a kindle
because duokan exists. Thanks to duokan team. Thanks to flip for putting in all the effort.
173. Vins, on April 12th, 2011 at 17:38 Said:
Crisp text on PDF on Duokan: Set Full refresh = 1
Menu – Settings – E.Full refresh(Pages) = 1
174. Franco, on April 12th, 2011 at 23:25 Said:
Vins,
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thank you for the tip! But I must say: I followed your suggestion, and the PDF text is still crisper on the
Kindle OS.
Franco
175. Duokan: sistema operativo alternativo para Kindle | El club del ebook, on April 13th, 2011 at
05:04 Said:
[...] Bajan Duokan del sitio oficial http://www.duokan.com o de Flip’s English site. [...]
176. istvan, on April 13th, 2011 at 09:12 Said:
Hi,
i can not get my kindle list on duokan.
I have some titles shown. but missing the option in settings and some newer pdfs.
please help me.
istvan
177. kindlematic, on April 13th, 2011 at 11:29 Said:
@ Franco
I agree with you – a lot of PDF files look rather fuzzy or lower-resolution compared to the Kindle OS. It
can be improved slightly by changing the contrast, but not much.
Is anyone else experiencing the same? I’ve tried engaging others on mobileread, but no one got back to
me about it. It’s a shame because Duokan is so much better otherwise, don’t know how to engage the
developers on this.
178. qldhqldh, on April 13th, 2011 at 11:31 Said:
It’s wonderful..
Thank you~
In version 2011/04/08, Change Category is failed…
Help. please
179. hug, on April 17th, 2011 at 08:55 Said:
Hi, Flip!!! I have just posted this question in MobileRead, but I also wanted to ask you directly.
Just bought a Kindle 3 Wifi International version (3.1 release) , followed your instructions and got the
English Duokan working OK. BUT,….
after introducing a stardict dictionary in Duokan,
changing the main dictionary and creating some collections in Kindle,
I am unable to load Duokan,…
it justs stays frozen at the last dot of the progress bar!
I have tried to reinstall it, also following your instructions, but no luck, I have not noticed any change.
Is there any known way to solve this? The thread is not very clear about how to uninstall Duokan (in
_ the worst scenario) if you are not able to load it.
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thanks in advance!
180. Guybrush, on April 17th, 2011 at 11:24 Said:
First of all, thanks for providing us with an English version of Duokan.
Unfortunately, I still get the U007 installation error on my Kindle with the lastest version (2011/04/08).
My specs are as follows:
- Kindle 3 WiFi international (do they discern between US and intl wifi versions, anyway?), B008 series
- Kindle OS 3.1 (558700031, don’t know if there are different versions of the 3.1 system)
- yifanlu’s jailbreak (v0.4)
- the latest font and screensaver hacks from the thread on mobileread.com
I temporarily uninstalled the jailbreak and the hacks for the time of the installation, but I still got the
U007 error. I also got a tip from another website which said I should only copy the B008 bin file instead
of the entire folder, which I did, but to no avail.
Also, I fiddled around a bit with the reader.pref file, adjusting margins, allowing justification and so on,
I don’t know if this interferes with the installation.
Wat do?
181. Raph, on April 17th, 2011 at 22:47 Said:
Thanks for the How-To. Works very good!!
182. Blumfeld, on April 20th, 2011 at 18:44 Said:
Hi,
ich bin aus der Nähe von Hamburg und mein Englisch ist nicht so gut. Würdest Du mich kontaktieren?
Ich finde das Duokan hat tolle Ansätze, leider gibt es das Problem it den Umlauten immer noch…
183. DesignerPaul, on April 21st, 2011 at 09:34 Said:
Thanks for your work! The PDF reader is a big improvement over Kindle OS.
184. Cambiar SO a la Kindle (DUOKAN) « WikiGorrion, on April 21st, 2011 at 18:28 Said:
[...] La fuente original del DUOKAN en ingles es: Flip’s [...]
185. rush, on April 21st, 2011 at 19:30 Said:
Hi Guybrush,
I have the same issue but with Kindle DX Graphite in my case.
If anybody will find the solution, please share it with the community.
186. flipkick, on April 21st, 2011 at 19:33 Said:
Hi Guybrush, Hi rush,
_
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did you try installing the chinese version? You can download it from the Archive.
187. rush, on April 22nd, 2011 at 07:41 Said:
Hi flipkick,
Thank you for the advise. I’ll do it today.
Also I would like to note that I’m not able to install new
version of the Amazon’s firmware (2.5.8). I received the same error (U007).
The current version of firmware installed on my Kindle DX Graphite is 2.5.5
188. g.t., on April 23rd, 2011 at 12:28 Said:
error U007 .. any solution? thx …
189. thomass, on April 25th, 2011 at 16:51 Said:
Could I ssh into my kindle on doukan. I broke the original soft, to repair it I should ssh into machine.
Or is there a way to do this via USB?
190. Lion, on April 26th, 2011 at 15:25 Said:
is the problem with the german “umlaute” finally solved? Without them it is not useable for german
books…
Best regards,
Lion
191. Kindle Duokan Firmware Update | Christoph Becker, on April 27th, 2011 at 07:42 Said:
[...] alternativen Kindle Firmware erschienen. Eine (per default) englische Version findet man wieder
bei flip. Falls dir dieser Artikel gefallen hat, hinterlasse einen Kommentar oder abonniere den RSS feed
um [...]
192. kelbek, on April 29th, 2011 at 15:10 Said:
Hi everyone,
for the Error U007, you probably still jailbraeked your Kindle. Remove the Jailbreak and install
Duokan. Then it will be work. I’m interested in internet browser in Duokan OS? is it to get such
browser? and is it possible to get ssh and root shell in Duokan?
Thanks all for the reply in advance.
193. Dmitry, on April 29th, 2011 at 17:50 Said:
How can I make TTS for another languages? What kind of format uses duokan?
194. hani, on April 30th, 2011 at 14:47 Said:
i tried your doukan with kindle 3.1 and did not work what to do?
195. Hướng dẫn cài HĐH Duokan cho Kindle. - Trang 3, on Mai 2nd, 2011 at 04:22 Said:
_
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[...] Q để boot vào Duokan. Hoặc nhấn W nếu muốn boot vào firmware gốc của Kindle
http://flip.netzbeben.de/2010/11/duo…ish-gui-today/ Bạn vào đây download bản mới nhất nhé. Chắc
do kindle mới nâng cấp lên 3.1, [...]
196. majidbhurgri, on Mai 3rd, 2011 at 12:26 Said:
I have started using Duokan OS and by and large I like it so much, especially the way it handles PDF,
the ability to read various formats and then last but not least the ease of navigation, that I find myself
using it all the time.
I have a few questions which I share and hope some of you can share your knowledge/views about
these.
1. There seems to be no internet browser for Duokan.

2. Does 3G work?
3. Is it possible to use more fonts in Duokan by using jailbreak and font hacks for Kindle FW/OS?
197. mzerrah, on Mai 3rd, 2011 at 20:42 Said:
I just installed the new update – new Duokan version 0.5.13.8931 (2011/04/22) with english language
preconfigured. And one thing I did notice compared to the old version I installed back in March is that
under Menu> J. Settings>Other> the option “Use Kindle List” is no longer there. I prefer separating my
kindle files( which are mostly novels) from my duokan files (pdf of medical books) ‘coz they tend to be
too many.. Any one had the same problem?
198. majidbhurgri, on Mai 4th, 2011 at 00:34 Said:
hani, on April 30th, 2011 at 14:47 Said:
I am using duokan with kindle fw 3.1 and it is working without any problem.
Can you hani be specific when you say it did not work?
199. hani, on Mai 4th, 2011 at 09:34 Said:
majidbhurgri, on Mai 4th, 2011 at 00:34 Said:

hani, on April 30th, 2011 at 14:47 Said:
I am using duokan with kindle fw 3.1 and it is working without any problem.
Can you hani be specific when you say it did not work?
Thank you, it’s working now.I don’t know why exactly, but the problem solved now and I’m enjoining
using it.
And regarding fonts hack, I am, myself, using my own fonts by adding jailbreak and fonts break. But
I’m wondering about supporting Arabic language.
200. flipkick, on Mai 4th, 2011 at 18:17 Said:
hi mzerrah, i guess they renamed it again. i’ll have a look at it tomorrow and update the current menu
option in the installation instructions above.
_
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201. Gyorgy, on Mai 4th, 2011 at 22:47 Said:
HI guys,
I bought a Kindle 3 wifi yesterday and I successfully updated the Kindle with this Duokan but after
restart nothing happened the default Kindle OS booting. Tried to restorte defaults as mentioned and cca
5x times but nothing Q or anything appears. This is not working.
Hello again Hani… I installed jailbreak and then fonthack but now the duokan won’t install…
Did you install duokan first and the jailbreak and fonthack later or did u install jailbreak & fonthack
first and then duokan?
Arabic appears fine in the browser. I wanted to check it in duokan after installing custom fonts but now
doukan would not install. The msg comes up update failed!
Any idea what is happening?
I was able to install duokan after uninstalling jailbreak and font hack. After installing duokan, I ran
jailbreak and font hack. Now the fonts are available in duokan but doc and html files with Arabic script
fonts somehow are not appearing correctly. None of the letters appear, only the punctuation marks, part
of the Latin character set, appear…
204. Verres, on Mai 6th, 2011 at 10:09 Said:
Hallo Flip,
Du wirst hier sicher mit Fragen überflutet, aber ich habe hier eine ungewöhnliche Nuss zu knacken.
Amazon hat mir ein Austauschgerät für einen leicht am Gehäuse beschädigten K3 geschickt. Danach
haben sie den beschädigten K3 deregistriert, was bedeutet das ich unter Menü nicht mehr auf den
Punkt Update zugreifen kann und auch keine neuen Collections mehr anlegen kann. Ansonsten ist der
K3 mit Firmware 3.1 aber eigentlich noch tadellos in Ordnung und jetzt würde ich gerne Duokan
installieren, kann das aber nicht weil ich keinen “update Knopf” mehr im Menü habe. Hast Du evtl.
eine Idee wie ich den wieder aktivieren kann?
Vielen Dank,
Verres
205. Verres, on Mai 6th, 2011 at 10:13 Said:
*Nachtrag*
Kein Update Knopf ist vielleicht etwas schlecht formuliert, er ist unter settings einfach nur als
“hellgrau”/ inaktiv markiert.
206. cornel, on Mai 6th, 2011 at 10:53 Said:
There are a posibility to connect kindle 3g as a modem to the pc to access the internet ?
207. noname, on Mai 9th, 2011 at 17:06 Said:
_ cornel, its possible, but it does support only http protocol
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To use jailbreak with duokan i restored defaults, installed duokan and then installed jailbreak and
language customization
208. Anton, on Mai 9th, 2011 at 22:18 Said:
It’s absolutely love it!!
Thank you.
209. guest, on Mai 11th, 2011 at 06:40 Said:
Thanks for the english hack flip
Is there a place for feature requests in English?
I enjoy using duokan for pdfs for my kindle 3 and i want to use it for my other e-books too but i can’t
because of
1) Latin letters problem, they generally don’t show up even when they show up they look weird
2)The space after apostrophe. This is so annoying and it is the only reason i can’t read my english
e-books on duokan.
3)There is not a quality font (at least they are not on the same level as the original ones). Is there a hack
to use the original kindle sans serif font?
Aside from those, it is a wonderful piece of code and i certainly enjoy it while reading PDFs.
210. tara, on Mai 12th, 2011 at 00:42 Said:
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT

I just bought a cheap Kindle3 [with special offers].
Once I installed Duokan, no more ads! LOL
Seriously…I didn’t put Duokan on there to get rid of ads. I got it for it’s awesome folder management
and crisp fonts!
I got frustrated fast not being able to put collections inside a parent collections. For example: R.A.
Salvatore has several different book series that I wanna keep separate, but under his name. Since
Duokan uses simple folder hierarchy, it’s a no-brainer now!
I just wish Kindle3 had more than 3GB memory, but that’s not Duokan’s fault. Thanks again for a great
program!
211. eb, on Mai 12th, 2011 at 04:10 Said:
Hi, thanks for your work here. We really appreciate it. I have a question:
Is it possible to read other languages documents using the native amazon .azw format that lets you
increase font size and so on?
I want to if possible add Persian fonts to kindle3.
thank you
212. bsabri, on Mai 13th, 2011 at 11:26 Said:

_
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How do you exactly configure duokan to access internet with the 3G ?

Another burning question : about language cutomomization how can you add new language like russian,
hebrew, umlauts for geman etc ? adding fonts seems not enough since the filename, table of contents of
pdfs are not properly displayed. Please help.
213. newversiontoday, on Mai 14th, 2011 at 10:40 Said:
duokan will ever support notes and underline pdf like kindle 3?
thanks
214. Irene, on Mai 14th, 2011 at 16:44 Said:
Hi!
I’m trying to download Duokan to install it on my Kindle 3 but I cannot open the
Duokan_0_5_13_8938_2011_05_06_english.rar on my MacBook. Can’t understand which is the
problem, but I cannot arrive at any Duokan archive… How can I do? Thank you very much, vielen
Danke
I downloaded some ebooks in epub format from University of Adelaide (http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/)

and from Gutenberg Project but Duokan always hangs up and freezes while opening these ebook. Has
anyone else faced this issue?
Duokan has no problem handling epub books from Feedbooks, though.
Does anyone have clue as to why is this so?
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Correction for language setting:

Select #0 for settings (a little wrench symbol)

Sorry for the mistake.

2. flipkick, on November 6th, 2010 at 22:13 Said:

thanks, I’ve corrected it.

3. Lion, on November 7th, 2010 at 08:35 Said:

4. Polvo, on November 7th, 2010 at 09:22 Said:

Good work flip, I’m now enjoying Duokan on my K3…

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5. flipkick, on November 7th, 2010 at 10:19 Said:

6. Brano, on November 7th, 2010 at 11:07 Said:

7. flipkick, on November 7th, 2010 at 12:13 Said:

8. montalex, on November 7th, 2010 at 17:08 Said:

9. Doukan su Kindle, on November 9th, 2010 at 16:42 Said:

12. s_oleg, on November 10th, 2010 at 22:58 Said:

13. flipkick, on November 13th, 2010 at 16:55 Said:

@s_oleg: check if your problem persists with the new version

14. Fernando, on November 14th, 2010 at 01:32 Said:

_ 15. flipkick, on November 14th, 2010 at 01:47 Said:

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16. Fernando, on November 14th, 2010 at 10:19 Said:

17. jvcastel, on November 16th, 2010 at 13:26 Said:

Regards from Mexico,

18. jvcastel, on November 16th, 2010 at 13:42 Said:

I found it! Pushing thru several buttons I figure out:

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19. flipkick, on November 16th, 2010 at 18:57 Said:

20. berty, on November 24th, 2010 at 15:35 Said:

the Duokan_0_5_13_7107__2010_11_20.rar has no DK_Pictures and DK_Documents folder.

I can’t find 升级包 folder for Kindle DXG) in the archive

please assist me in how to install duokan in DXG.

Thank you in advance

21. flipkick, on November 24th, 2010 at 18:10 Said:

@berty: but these folders are in that file actually

22. berty, on November 26th, 2010 at 03:49 Said:

23. Alex, on November 28th, 2010 at 22:28 Said:

25. Alex, on November 29th, 2010 at 00:01 Said:

27. zetlorf, on Dezember 5th, 2010 at 20:06 Said:

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still dod not correct the bug. Very annoying…

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34. Vadim, on Dezember 20th, 2010 at 03:02 Said: