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Kindle Shortcuts, Hidden Features, Kindle-Friendly Websites, Free eBooks & Email From Kindle: Concise User Guide for Kindle DX, Kindle 2 & 1, Kindle for iPhone & iPod Touch (Kindle Manual) (Kindle Edition)
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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 send an email from your Kindle or read news for free. Updated on October 14th, 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: Minesweeper game, Image Viewer and more
- 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 Display the Time
- How to Display Free Memory
- How to Display Wireless Network
- Live Kindle support telephone numbers
Selected Kindle 2 Shortcuts:
Home Page
- Number Key (1, 2, 3, …) and Enter: jump to this list page (e.g. entering 3 will take you to page 3).
- 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.
- Type in a word (the search box appears automatically) followed by the Enter key: Each book is search for this word. The number of found words is displayed next to the title.
- Slide the power switch: Enter/Exit sleep mode.
- Alt+Shift+M: Minesweeper game.
Book or Periodicals Viewing
- 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). In our user tests we found the male voice to be more clear and pleasant than female voice. We also found the default speech rate to sound better than either faster or slower speed.
- Shift+SYM: start/stop text-to-speech.
- During text-to-speech: press Spacebar to pause/resume text-to-speech (also Aa>Pause to pause text-to-speech; Aa>Play to resume 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.
- Alternatively, click MENU > Search
- 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 dictionary from any screen, enter the term, move the 5-way controller right to select Dictionary.
- To search Wikipedia from any screen, enter the term and move the 5-way controller right to select Wikipedia.
- To search internet from any screen, enter the term and move the 5-way controller right to select Google.
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Product Description
FREE UPDATE 090208 — re-download and get the update for free. See below:
It’s NOT another tiny user guide, but a big, very fun read, over 45,000 words and 100 pages, yet fully up-to-date as of September 2008 and covering everything you’ll really want to do, read and listen to in comfort: buy security cases, newest lights, covers, and accessories. Cope with and Fix all the Kindle’s little quirks, how to read in bed or on the beach, where and how to get a thousand e-books into your free library, use RSS and subscriptions for free, where to check scores and stocks, get web resources and conversion software, or completely personalize Kindle to be totally tech-chic and make it Yours… Oh, sure, and how to show it off with a killer demo as well.
(What did we add in the latest update? Some pesky typo corrections; a better way to get GMAIL; Yahoo mail and calendar, more on how to put quick jumplinks in your very own documents; and whoa! –more Pirates? Run! Wake the garrison!)
If you’ve already bought this eBook, the updates are yes, FREE to you. Either re-download in your Amazon Media Library with your PC; or on your Kindle, just go to Content Manager from the home menu. Find this eBook and check it. then (gasp!) remove from Kindle. No worries, mate, it’s still there, only now it’s marked at Amazon instead of on your Kindle – they still know it’s yours. Check it again and move to Kindle memory — it’s BAACK ..updated.
Yes, this one eBook really DOES have everything about the Kindle carefully explained in it, plus indexes, hyperlinks, and a sense of humor too. (Buy it right now, or we’ll make the ship’s cat walk the plank..again)




