Kindle Tips

What is Your Favorite Kindle Accessory?

Kindle Tips — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:27:08 +0000

I’d love to hear what our favorite Kindle accessory is. Cases, screen protectors or anything else you would like to recommend!

Convert PDF’s to Kindle!

Kindle Tips — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 01:09:33 +0000

Have you ever wished you could import a PDF into the Kindle and still have all of the Kindle functionality? You can! If you want your PDFs converted to the Kindle format so you can take advantage of text-to-speech, annotation and other features, email the PDF to your Kindle email address with Convert in the subject line. Very cool! Better yet, let your Kindle read it back to you!

Definitions

Kindle Tips — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:53:00 +0000

Do you ever find yourself reading a book and you come across a word you don’t know? If you are like me, you skip right past it and hope it’s not critical to the story! No one has the time or inclination to grab a dictionary every time that happens.

Well the Kindle solves that problem. Simply move the cursor to the beginning of the word and a dictionary definition will pop up! A great feature that I will be using all the time!

Make Your Kindle Talk!

Kindle Tips — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:24:59 +0000

Did you know the Kindle can talk? If the book publisher hasn’t disabled the feature, you can set your Kindle to read a book aloud to you! Press the Text menu button and select Text-to-Speech. Turn it on. Shift+Sym stops and starts the reading feature. The space bar pauses and restarts. Very cool, huh?

Browse in Article Mode

Kindle Tips — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:55:26 +0000

The Kindle is a great way to surf the web, but due to the screen size websites can get a bit cluttered. If you prefer to read your web articles like a book then you need to know about Article Mode. Press the Enter key and zoom into the section of the web page which has the article you want to read. After zooming in select the article. Select Menu and select Article Mode. The article will reformat into book style and allow you to read the article as if it were another book on the Kindle!

How to type numbers quickly on your Kindle 3

Kindle Tips — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:09:43 +0000

If you are lucky enough to own a lovely Kindle 3, then there are a few hidden features that not everyone knows about. One of these features is the shortcut to type numbers direct from the keypad.

As I’m sure you are aware, normally if you want to write numbers, you have to use the symbol button and then navigate to the number you want to use, and hit select. A little annoying.

However, on the Kindle 3, you can use a shortcut and type numbers by pressing and holding Alt + the top row of letters.

Watch this video to see the shortcut in action:

Kindle Text to Speech Instructions

Kindle Tips — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:49:05 +0000

Here is a quick video showing how to use text to speech on kindle 3.

This example is using the kindle 3, but it should be very similar on the other kindle versions.

What is my kindle email address?

Kindle Tips — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:43:09 +0000

Every Kindle has an email address that you can use to email files to your kindle. But what if you don’t know your kindle email address?

Here is how you can find it:

www.amazon.co.uk/myk (UK)
www.amazon.com/myk (US)

You need to look at the menu on the left of the page. Under the heading “Your Kindle Account”, you will find a link that says “Manage Your Devices”.

Under “Registered Kindle”, you will be able to find your email address, which will look something like “yourname_36@kindle.com”

Once you have found this email address, you can just send a file to your kindle by sending a blank email to this email address with the file as an attachment!