By Aaron Steinhardt PhD
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This concise Kindle manual provides concise 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 22, 2010.
This eBook includes:
- Keyboard shortcuts for Kindle 3G/WiFi (3d generation), Kindle DX and Kindle 2
- How to use Kindle for iPhone & iPad 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 use Kindle as a calculator
- How to Display the Time
- How to Display Free Memory
- Live Kindle support telephone numbers
Selected Kindle Shortcuts:
Home Page
- Type in a word (the search box appears automatically) followed by the Enter key: Each book is searched for this word. The number of times this word appears in a given title is displayed next to the title.
- To play the Minesweeper game, simultaneously press Alt+Shift+M. Press the BACK button to go back to the Home page.
- To Display the Time and Free Memory, Press the MENU button.
- To remove a book from the Kindle, select the book with the 5-way controller, then press the controller left or right. This will delete the book from the Kindle and put it into the archive.
- To restore an archived book, select Archived Items using the 5-way controller and push the controller down. The Archived Items screen appears. Select the book you wish to restore.
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.
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 Read more
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