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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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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