Yesterday I started reading a three book bundle on my Kindle and was wishing there was something to mark each book on the progress bar so I could see how far through each book I am,  rather than just the entire three books as a whole.  Then I realized that we have a do-it-yourself solution available!

When you do a highlight or note in a book,  it makes a little black dot on the progress bar.  So I used the TOC to find the start of each book and did a note (i.e. “start of book 2″).  Now there are dots on my progress bar marking where the second and third books start so I can easily see my progress in each individual book.

You could also do the same thing with chapters in a book if you wanted to take the time before you start reading.  It’s easiest if the book has an active TOC so you can use it to jump to the start of each chapter, but if it doesn’t have one you can always do a search for on the words “chapter two”, “chapter three”, etc.

Just don’t use this method if you have your synching on because it will take you to that furthest point every time.

So… how do you do it?

1. Download this file
2. Put this installer .bin file at the root of your kindle DX
3. Update kindle from menu -> settings

If you want to remove this trick then:

1. Download this other file
2. Put the uninstaller .bin file at the root of your Kindle DX ereader
3. Update your kindle.

This is the message you will see if you click on a a hyperlink to a PDF file on your Kindle DX browser

This is the message you will see after installing the file to your Kindle DX