Kindle Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts
Kindle Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts
Updated November 2010!
From the author of the best-selling blog “Free Kindle Books Plus a Few Other Tips” and the #1 free Kindle book guide comes this handy, time-saving, collection of tips, tricks and shortcuts for your Kindle. Topics include:
• Archived Items
• Battery Replacement
• Calculator Functionality
• Checking Your Email
• Collections
• Contacting Amazon’s Kindle Customer Service
• Converting PDF Documents to Kindle Format
• Discussion Boards
• Displaying the Time
• Download Problems – What To Do
• Flight Check
• Formatting Issues in a Kindle Book – What To Do
• Games on Your Kindle
• Gifting a Kindle Book / Gift Certificates
• Internet Access (it’s free) on Your Kindle
• Kindle Reading to You (Text to Speech)
• Losing Your Place While Reading
• Lost Kindle Tip
• Mobile Websites – Access Them on Your Kindle
• Password Protection
• Perm
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Once Upon a December Nightmare
They were only going out to dinner and a movie.
But when their plans go astray, friends Cassie, Mary, Denise, and James decide to take a detour down a lonely mountain road. A felled tree blocks their passage and forces them to turn around in a clearing containing a disturbing arrangement of four deer carcasses.
Their truck breaks down, their cell phones don’t work, and they must brave the cold December air, nightfall, and a long hike. Yet this is the least of their troubles. Tension runs high between the four young friends…and they are not alone. Each step brings them closer to safety, but will they make it to the main road alive?
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Great book by writer of great blog: don’t confuse them; book is super handy, and blog helpful, esp. for newbees.,
This review comments on both the BOOK as well as Michael’s DAILY BLOG of the same or similar name. Both are set up to help you find free books and give help to lost or confused Kindlers. In the daily BLOG, the helpful links to the product saves typing/searching time. Before Amazon ranked top sellers WITHOUT sifting free books [which was not so long ago] this blog found them for us. Now that Amazon ranks bestseller free books separately, we still get numerous tips on Kindle functions and clarifications. Michael also refers out to other free/cheap sources online besides Amazon. I never would have found SMASHWORDS or tackled MOBIPOCKET, just for two examples, without the gentle and friendly guidance of this blog. I think of the book as my OVERALL guide and the blog as my current and updated info on finding inexpensive and quality sites for books. I bought the book and have subscribed for over a year to the blog: as a result I have 147 free books in my UNREAD collection! So Michael has really saved me some money as well as help me locate great books, some of which I’ve paid for, too! BOTH Book and Blog are worth every cent. Thanks!
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|How to Love Your Kindle Even More,
I’ve had my Kindle for four months….I read through the User Manual early-on….and, like so many others, have found my Kindle one of the best electronic device (and BOOK!) purchases I’ve ever made.
That said, this engaging and well-done Kindle guide has only deepened my understanding, enjoyment and love of this device. The author’s conversational and understanding style makes for exceptionally easy and, most importantly, USEFUL reading. The book is well-indexed from the Table of Contents and serves as a ready reference whenever I need an answer. The author addresses all the stuff we Kindle users really care about.
In addition, there is an extensive list of Kindle/mobile-friendly websites one can access directly from the links in the book to the web. Everything from news, sports, travel, weather and business sites are listed. This list alone makes this book more than worth the measly 99 cents’ cost.
The book is updated frequently and reflects all the latest software and Kindle versions available.
Along with the author’s superb daily Kindle blog Free Kindle Books Plus a Few Other Tips (perched at #1 in Kindle blogs), this is the best 99 cents investment one can make.
You’ll love your Kindle whole lot more with this ready-reference at your Kindle fingertips.
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|great Stuff,
Lots of tips in here, some I was able to see in the Kindle manual (yes I read it) but even more that are not included such as I was able to check in for my flight using my Kindle and display the boarding pass electronically for use on continental air. sure beats having to find a printer when you are in a hotel.
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|It takes place in December, but even in August this would give you the chills,
This short story was the first piece of writing that I read on my new Kindle. And what a way to break it in … I couldn’t put it down. December Nightmare walks that fine thread that all good suspense does – the thread that tells you just enough to make you breathless, but not enough that you can figure out where the story’s headed.
Then there were the deer. Oh, the deer … and I won’t tell you more than that. You’ll just have to read it to find out what I mean.
Plot: A familiar, and creepy pretext: four teenagers in a car who decide to go down an alternative route in the wintertime. Then the strange stuff starts happening. Again here, as with all suspense-style reviews, I find myself torn because I don’t want to give away too much. So I’ll stick to lighter details. We get several different POVs. Some writers do different POVs that all feel the same. Not the case with this story. Each is well-done in the sense that you feel that you’re really reading a different person’s take on the story, not one author’s voice shining through four characters.
Setting: The creepiest, snowiest backroad you can imagine. As it is the heart of wintertime here where I live, I found myself staring out at the cold and the snow and imagining these scenes. It’s because of the vividness of Reich’s writing. Small aspects of the story are cast in exquisite detail: “A heavy sigh rushed from her lips like a plume of smoke and framed her face in dark fog” and “The liquid mixed with mud and splattered the truck like a Jackson Pollack painting” are examples.
Characters: Well-developed, unique. We get Cassie, who struck me as the most likable of the bunch; her friend Mary, who struck me as rather mousy; Mary’s sister Denise, who was the second most unlikable of the bunch; and Denise’s boyfriend James who was absolutely the most unlikable. Likable or not, I cared about the characters. I may have wanted one of them in particular to come across some misfortune … but I was very engaged in his or her misfortune!
Style: In short stories, real estate counts. Reich is aware of this, and she makes the most of every word. Nothing is wasted here.
Overall Impression: Five stars. An engaging, frightening short story that draws on Civil War history/urban legend-American mythology to make chills run down your spine. Read it, but be prepared to have it stick in your memory!
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|I Want More of “Nightmare”.,
Take a walk on the eerie side in Cherie Reich’s story, Once Upon a December Nightmare. The chill of winter and the desolation of back roads wrap their arms around a group of teenagers, who should’ve stayed home. It’s hard to say exactly what is out there in the woods, but it’s relentless and it’s hungry. Ms. Reich takes readers to that place somewhere in the back of our imaginations, the place we hope isn’t real. She left me asking for more, and that is one of the signs of a good story. I am anxious to see the next chapter in Cassie’s life. If you like a good scare, give Once Upon a December Nightmare a try. Five stars sounds right.
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|Don’t split up!,
This midwinter night out’s a bust in Once Upon a December Nightmare, just James and three girls in a truck taking the long way home and thinking maybe the straight road would’ve been best. Author Cherie Reich paints a tense picture with her words, trees standing black in white snow lit by red brakes. And the drive goes on.
“Creepy” describes more than just the scenery. Soon the young people are on foot, making their way through cold and dark, reminding themselves that “You never split up” if you want to survive a horror movie, telling stories that might be better kept for a safe warm house. Meanwhile, the author cleverly splits chapters up into different points of view, each adding to the picture already given of characters and situation, each adding to the tension.
And, yes, the young people split too.
Once Upon a December Nightmare is a delightfully creepy modern tale, with old-time overtones, believable scares, and a breathless epilogue. It’s another excellent lunch-time e-read from Wild Child Publishing.
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