Kindle Shortcuts, Hidden Features, Kindle-Friendly Websites, Free eBooks & Email From Kindle: Concise User Guide for Kindle 2 (US & International), DX, 1, iPhone & iPod (Mobi Manuals)
Kindle Shortcuts, Hidden Features, Kindle-Friendly Websites, Free eBooks & Email From Kindle: Concise User Guide for Kindle 2 (US & International), DX, 1, iPhone & iPod (Mobi Manuals)
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Product Description
This concise Kindle manual provides step-by-step instructions on how to do everything with your Kindle FASTER. You will also unlock hidden secrets of your Kindle such as how to download free eBooks, send an email from your Kindle, play preinstalled games or read news for free. Updated on December 1st, 2009.
This eBook includes:
- Keyboard shortcuts for Kindle DX, Kindle 2, and Kindle 1
- How to use Kindle for iPhone & iPod Touch App
- List of Kindle-friendly websites that saves you time typing in long URL addresses
- How to email from Kindle
- How to download thousands of free eBooks
- How to convert your documents to Kindle format
- How to convert PDF Files
- Kindle hidden features such as the Minesweeper, GoMoku (Five in a Row), and the Image Viewer
- How to search the internal dictionary, Wikipedia, and the Internet
- How to use Kindle Web Browser
- Shortcuts to adding bookmarks, clippings and notes
- Shortcuts to viewing periodicals
- Shortcuts to Kindle audio player
- How to buy books
- How to expand an image
- How to use text-to-speech Kindle feature
- How to make a screen shot on Kindle and on iPhone
- How to choose the default dictionary
- How to use Kindle as a calculator
- How to Display the Time
- How to Display Free Memory
- How to Display Wireless Network
- Live Kindle support telephone numbers
Selected Kindle 2 and Kindle DX Shortcuts:
Home Page
- If your home page is sorted alphabetically by either Title or Author, enter Letter Keys (a, b, c, ...) and press the 5-was controller to jump to the page containing the first book starting with that letter,"The", "A", "An" are ignored.
- Alt+Shift+M: Minesweeper game.
- To Display the Time and Free Memory, Press the MENU button.
Viewing Books or Periodicals
- To display an image in full screen mode: Point the 5-way controller to the image, the magnifying glass will be displayed in the center of the image. Press the controller to view the image in full screen mode. Press the controller again to switch to normal mode.
- Alt+B: bookmark the current page, unbookmark the current page. You can view all bookmarks by pressing MENU My Notes & Marks.
- Alt+Aa: to change text size, text-to-speech speech rate, text-to-speech speaking voice (male or female).
- Shift+SYM: start/stop text-to-speech.
- Alt+Shift+1 to 9: changes the spacing between lines (the default is 3).
Search Commands
- Type in a word from any screen. A search box will pop up automatically. Move the 5-way controller to the right twice and select the search location.
- To limit search to a single book, open the book and enter your search term.
- To search all books on your Kindle, click the HOME button, enter your search term.
- To search Wikipedia from any screen, enter the term and move the 5-way controller right to select Wikipedia.
- To search the internet from any screen, enter the term and move the 5-way controller right to select Google.
Text-to-speech
- Shift+SYM: start/stop text-to-speech.
- During text-to-speech: press Spacebar to pause/resume text-to-speech.
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GET THIS. For $.99, you cannot go wrong with the shortcuts. I now keep up with my email and can start and stop my music with a press of a key.
There are a few more shortcuts, plus, a list of Web sites you can use with your Kindle.
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Comments from the Publisher:
Each shortcut was thoroughly tested on both Kindle 1 and Kindle 2 devices. Brian’s confusion probably derives from the fact that this Kindle Guide has 2 sections: one section describes shortcuts available in Kindle 1 and a separate section describes shortcuts available in Kindle 2. The shortcuts are different. If one looks in the wrong section, some shortcuts will not work. We addressed this issue in version 11.2 by indicating the relevant Kindle (1 or 2) next to each shortcut subtitle.
We have also added over 100 Kindle-friendly websites organized by category. If you found a website that we don’t have please email us or post it here and we will add it to the next edition of the guide, so that you will not need to type the URL.
Finally we have added a section on How to eMail from Kindle with link to most popular services: GMail, Yahoo, Comcast and Hotmail.
Enjoy!
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Kindle Shortcuts and Kindle-friendly Websites. This concise Kindle user guide describes keyboard shortcuts and hidden Kindle features for both Kindle 2 and Kindle 1. Updated 04/28/2009
This is a wonderful straight forward ebook for Kindle users. The ebook does not assume that you have a basic knowledge of Kindle controls. It gives you valuable instructions so you could get a desired result. I strongly recommend this ebook.
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Kindle Shortcuts and Kindle-friendly Websites. This concise Kindle user guide describes keyboard shortcuts and hidden Kindle features for both Kindle 2 and Kindle 1. Updated 04/28/2009
Technically all the information contained therein could be found for free if one had enough time, but if I had that much time and energy, I could also eventually travel to libraries to borrow, and back to return, every time I wanted to read a title for “free”. “Free” is not the primary motivation of Kindle users, it’s convenience, and personally, I find this “cool tricks” Kindle guide a no-brainer, common sense investment. For $0.99, you get the benefit of this author’s many hours of beta-testing. What’s to regret?
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I bought today (June 28th) and got version 11.3. The TOC clearly divides Kindle 1 from Kindle 2, and they went further by also marking each tip’s header with Kindle 1/Kindle 2.
The newly added email info is cool. And granted I could have eventually heard of same tip after browsing Google searches, it’s nice to have bunch of advanced info in one gulp. Worth 99 cents in my opinion.
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This was my first book purchased from Kindle store. It saved me hours learning how to use the Kindle for IPhone app.
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I am new to Kindle and it is really great to know that the Kindle has the capability to perform a multitude of tasks. Many of these capabilities are not listed in the Kindle Manual. Since I purchased Kindle for nearly $300 I wanted to utilize all the Kindle potential. I also wanted to use Kindle as efficiently as possible. For me that meant using keyboard shortcuts and optimally using the wireless whispernet. I did not want to use USB connection. After all I purchased the Kindle for its ability to communicate over the air. So I searched for ‘Kindle Shortcuts and this guide was first in the list.
I decided to give it a try. If I can optimize my use of the Kindle, one dollar would be well spent. I first download the sample. The sample showed good deal of shortcuts for Kindle 2 but nothing else. That was a good start. Furthermore, these shortcut were presented in a concise and clear manner – just as I like. I frankly do not like watered down technical guides. They take too long to get to the point.
What pushed me toward buying this manual was the prospects to read about Kindle capabilities not explained in the Kindle Users’Guide. After all I saw most shortcuts in the sample. Therefore I invested $1 and downloaded the complete Kindle Shortcut book. Best dollar I ever spent. It did not repeat Kindle Users’ Guide at all. The step-by-step explanations were clear and concise. I was able to easily download a number of free books via wireless whispernet from both Amazon and several other websites. These free books download was well worth the one dollar I spent on the guide. However the guide goes into many other topics that help you optimize you Kindle use.
I highly recommend this guide to everyone interested in optimizing their Kindle use. I would suggest to first download the sample and read the table of contents. If the topics listed in the table of contents talk about the capability that you could use, then buy the book with the confidence that these capabilities will be easily explained in the guide. Of course you can search the Internet and Kindle forums and find most information there but for one dollar I’d prefer to have this information compiled for me and stored in one location on the Kindle.
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This is a must have for any Kindler. This book has everything I need to know to use my Kindle to its fullest, in a concise and convenient form. I actually re-read it once in a while just to get reminded on some more obscure features of Kindle. And for under a buck this is basically a freebie.
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Kindle Shortcuts provides lots of useful information, much of it missing from the Amazon manual.
I thought that the Kindle is a dedicated book reader that can do little more than display text. I was quite surprised to learn otherwise from this book. You can, in fact, play games on the Kindle!
First there are two preloaded games: Minesweeper and GoMoku (Five in a row). Both games are made very well and work great on the Kindle. GoMoku is in fact quite challenging to beat. I am not sure why Amazon does not tell you about these games in the Kindle user guide.
Second, there are a few games you can download. With these games available, the Kindle becomes a much better entertainment device that just a dedicated eReader!
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Instead of having to waste my time on the Amazon website or dig through the manual for instructions, I purchased this ebook and was able to get all of the information I needed about my Kindle in a concise, user-friendly format. This guide describes shortcuts I would have never known existed, and the tips in the guide are very useful.
I realize that I could have received all this information for free, but come on- it’s 25 cents and it saves so much time!
I had no idea that the Kindle has so many capabilities. Its able to do so much more than just read text. You can play games on the Kindle, access your email (!!), view different websites, look words up in the dictionary and much more.
This guide is a must-buy for Kindle users. Really.