The REB1200 was one of the first true contenders for the e-book market. It has a nice (for the times) color touchscreen, prescient use of Li-Ion battery for plenty of airplane read time, and external CF memory for holding as many ebooks as your wallet could allow.
Although poor business decisions ultimately killed and revived it several times, it was a good product and offers some interesting hackability. I’ve just noticed that the product line has again been picked up by a third party so as interest and used ebay sales surge, I decided to go dust off some old files and publish the hacks we knew back in the day (almost a decade ago) for that old-school hack feeling. We’ll also touch on what’s happening these days to get you from the year 2000 to now post haste.
Fig 1 – Don’t you wish your ebook was hot like me
- A REB1200 with firmware lower than 4.x. I’m not yet sure if the new 4.x firmware can be manipulated and downgraded, so for safety’s sake – don’t upgrade just yet!
- A networked PC running RebLibrarian. The uber-REB tool for firmware work
- A copy of Eliberate2 to run the buffer overflow hack. Original author’s excellent page is here. Or you can fetch a local backup here: Eliberate2 – REB1200 buffer overflow exploit for fetching from internal memory
- Your device’s DES key – finding this will be the subject of another article
- An EJFM-hacked firmware file. This will be the subject of yet another article.
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