Amazon Kindle: The Definitive User's Guide (Includes all Kindle Tricks and Hidden Features, Kindle User's Keyboard Shortcuts, How-to Use Kindle for Email, Free eBooks, plus much more) | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Ailax Merchandise (UK)
Category: EBooks
Buy New: $0.10
Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 553
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B0017XZJEG
Publication Date: December 25, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
The Author - Errol R. Williams, has specifically written a clear and comprehensive step-by-step Kindle user's instructions, 106-Page article - "Amazon Kindle: The Definitive User's Guide" for Kindle owners who want to get the most out of this revolutionary wireless reading device. The article contains eighteen informative separate parts with each part clearly labeled and hyperlinked. Table of Contents is 'Right Justified' making selection, searching and navigating this book with the Kindle Cursor easy. The article includes tricks, hidden features and tips including accessing Google GPS Maps to search for nearby restaurants or find the nearest gas station, setting up an email account to send and receive emails, play a game, activate Kindle clock, take Kindle screenshot images and save as a file, get Kindle to spell out time, how-to use the Kindle audio player - with keyboard shortcut keys, browsing the web using Kindle, sending and receiving email on Kindle, how-to add you own screensaver images, chat with friends, colleagues and family using Yahoo! Messenger on Kindle, how-to search Kindle discussion forums, the best Kindle social network groups, Kindle blogs and podcasts, which SD/SDHC memory cards will work with Kindle perfectly without any problems, how-to solve Kindle screen freeze problems, how-to browse websites that do not work/display pleasantly on Kindle, Kindle glossary, show/hide text justification options on Kindle, show Kindle diagnostics data, how-to convert and email attachment files free of charge and avoid the $.10 fee, plus many more Kindle user tips and tricks. This book also includes a complete list of Kindle user's keyboard shortcuts (which are not included in the Kindle User's Manual), Kindle coverage Map areas, Kindle device technical specifications, an accurate estimate of how many Kindles sold since its November 2007 launch date and where to download thousands of free .prc, .mobi, .azw, .txt and .mp3 file books/audiobooks, to read on your Kindle. Bonus Content Included Step-by-step self-publishing author Kindle book formatting - which covers best practices for converting different file types to Kindle-readable format, how-to use popular programs such as Microsoft Word to edit, create accurate text paragraph spacing, add navigation bookmarks which are hyperlinked enabling your Kindle book readers to skip to any chapter within your book, font/text size to use, Microsoft Word keyboard shortcuts to help you quickly edit your books content, saving your finished book as an HTML file and self-publishing author sales strategy tips. Free Content Update This book will be updated frequently as new information becomes available regarding the Amazon Kindle. Last Updated This book was last updated on: 25 December, 2008. Update Includes (File size: 441 KB)
: Table of Contents - with hyperlink navigation
: Right justified Table of Contents for easy Searching
: New Text/Paragraph Layout and Formatting
: New Content Added
: Typos Correction Amazon Kindle customers could receive the updated content free. In your Amazon account, go in "Your Media Library" and click the "Downloads" tab, located at the top. Select the purchased title you want to refresh, followed by "Send wirelessly to Kindle". If there is an updated version available of that particular title, it will now be available on your Kindle to read. Mobipocket customers could receive the updated content free by logging into your mobipocket.com purchased book account, and re-downloading this book.
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 Helpful January 6, 2009
This was only .10 cents, so who cares? I found a few handy shortcuts I did not know about without having to search the Kindle message boards, so that alone made it worth it. Would I go so far as to call it a book? No. A lenghty magazine article with helpful information, yes. Also, I did not need nor want detailed information on the evolution of e-readers. I just wanted what the title stated.
A touch of literacy would be a welcome addition December 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
At this price, complaining about this book is like giving a gift-wrapped Mr. Ed an oral exam, but still ...
The author needs to learn a few tricks of the writer's trade, like:
- Never proof-read your own work
- Spell checkers are not to be trusted
- Punctuation
- Grammar
- Sentence structure
The book is rife with errors and misconstructions. I haven't gotten far into it enough to be able to comment on whether it fulfills the "Definitive Guide" promise on the cover, partly because I keep having to go back and re-read those "Did I just misread, or did he really commit ANOTHER howler" sentences. Slow going.
Too many typos December 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book had so many typos in it that I finally had to stop reading it. I wish someone could have proof read it for the author. As for the info, some of it is good, but there is also a lot of commentary by the author that is subjective and distracting from the focus of the book.
He Needs to Hire an Editor August 16, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I read the reviews here and then bought it anyway. At least my expectations were adjusted before I started reading it.
I found about 2/3 of the chapters to be pretty interesting. The other third (word formatting, self publishing, etc.) seemed outside the scope of this document.
My two biggest complaints, though, were the formatting (or lack of formatting) of the tables and the atrocious spelling.
The typos and grammatical errors were the worst I've seen in any publication (even worse than my town's local paper). The misspelled words jumped off the page! They were so bad that I wonder whether the author even proofread his own document or if he just wrote it in one pass and clicked "send." He could have paid a high school kid fifty bucks to read through the draft and mark up the errors. Very shameful for any document, let alone one that I had to pay for.
The formatting of the tables made them nearly useless. If he saved his Word doc as HTML then the tables still should have been preserved. If that didn't work, then he could have taken a screen shot of the tables and pasted them in as images. There has to be a better solution than one column of jumbled terms and values.
Outside that, I actually enjoyed the background of the Kindle device. I was looking forward to the keyboard shortcuts, but I'm either too thick to figure some of them out or they've been discontinued (or maybe they were just incorrect). For example: alt-Aa?!?! Does that mean I hold down alt, shift, a for the first capital "a" and then press a second lowercase "a"? Do I hold down the "a" to make it two As? I tried many different combinations and never had any success.
As others have said, you get what you pay for. It was worth a buck, but no more than that. He mentioned that we should check for upcoming releases. Maybe he'll spell-check it and post another version.
UPDATE: Reading through the Kindle User's Guide (which, I'll admit, I should have read first), I discovered that the keyboard shortcut for sleep mode is alt-aA (the font size button). Again, it's a point of confusion that an editor and/or a little clarification by the author could have prevented.
 Almost terrible August 2, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you want to know the history of the Kindle and all about its innards, get this ebook. There are a handful of good shortcuts that I am assuming are probably found for free on the web (I haven't perused the other reviews.) Editing is just awful. Entire book is almost terrible.
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