The Complete 2012 User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle: Covers All Current Kindles Including the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, and Kindle

BOOK: The Complete 2012 User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle: Covers All Current Kindles Including the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, and Kindle
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The Complete 2012 User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle

 

Tips, Tricks, & Links to Unlock Cool Features, Save You Hundreds on Kindle Content, and Help You Get the Most Out of Your Kindle

 

Covers All Current Kindles Including the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, and Kindle

 

 

 

Updated April 2012

 

Compatible with:

 

Kindle Fire software 6.3

 

Kindle Touch software 5.1.0

 

Kindle basic software 4.0.1

 

Kindle Keyboard software 3.3

 

Kindle DX software 2.5.8

 
 

The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle:
Tips, Tricks, & Links to Unlock Cool Features, Save You Hundreds on Kindle Content, and Help You Get the Most Out of Your Kindle

 
 

By Bruce Grubbs and Stephen Windwalker

 
 

Kindle Edition Published by Windwalker Media

 

[email protected]

 

Arlington, Massachusetts

 

Visit Kindle Nation Daily at
http://kindlenationdaily.com

 

Kindle Nation Daily is a division of Windwalker Media

 

Copyright 2012, Bruce Grubbs and Stephen Windwalker

 

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the author or publisher, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, article, book, or academic paper.

 

All company and product names are the trademarks of their respective companies. Use of these names and marks is not intended to imply any relationship with, or endorsement by, any company.

 
Also by the Authors
 
Bruce's Books and websites
 

Grand Canyon Guide: Your Complete Guide to the Grand Canyon (
http://amzn.to/uz1iLU
)

 

Exploring with GPS: A Practical Field Guide for Satellite Navigation (
http://amzn.to/uHDeGz
)

 

Exploring Great Basin National Park: Including Mount Moriah Wilderness (
http://amzn.to/sKlMDS
)

 

Complete User’s Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle Keyboard (with Stephen Windwalker)
http://amzn.to/sYHBOt

 

Grand Canyon Guide: Your Complete Guide to the Grand Canyon:
GrandCanyonGuide.net

 

Global Positioning Systems for Road and Trail:
ExploringGPS.com

 

BruceGrubbs.com

 

Get Out and Stay Out blog:
http://bruce-grubbs.blogspot.com

 

Travels with Kindle Blog:
http://travelswithkindle.blogspot.com/

 
Windwalker’s Books and websites
 

Kindle Books by Stephen Windwalker

 

Kindle Nation Daily website

 

Kindle Nation Daily on Facebook

 

Kindle Nation Daily App for the Kindle Fire

 

If you’d like an absolutely free, ready entry point to the Kindle Fire’s web browser that also allows you to keep up with free book listings and other Kindle-related news, you can
download the free Kindle Nation Daily app
from the Amazon Appstore and save it to your favorites, then tap it anytime you want to start using the Amazon Silk web browser.

 

CONTENTS

 

Also by the Authors

 

Acknowledgments

 

Introduction to the April 2012 Edition: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: How Apple and 5 Big Publishers Almost Got Away with a Massive Price-Fixing Conspiracy

 

Using this Book

 

Why a Kindle?

 

Which Kindle to Buy?

 

Covers, Lights, and Accessories

 

Reading Books and Periodicals

 

Searching Your Content and the web

 

Using the Dictionary

 

Annotating Your Reading

 

Listening to Audiobooks

 

Listening to Music

 

Watching Movies, TV Shows, and Videos

 

Viewing Photos

 

Browsing the Web

 

Extending the Fire with Apps

 

Shopping in the Kindle Store

 

Using Voice Guide

 

Finding Free Books

 

Working with Personal Documents

 

Organizing Your Books

 

Lending Books

 

Registering Your Kindle

 

Moving to a New Kindle

 

Free Kindle Reading Apps

 

Kindle Cloud Reader

 

Managing E-Books with Calibre

 

Using Settings

 

Fixing Problems

 

How it Works – E Ink

 

How it Works – Silk Browser

 

Publishing to the Kindle

 

Kindle Resources

 

About the Authors

 
 
Acknowledgments
 

Bruce wishes to thank everyone who made this book possible, including Elaine Ewing and Peter Levine, who both did an excellent job of copy-editing, and Duart Martin, who has strongly supported all of my book projects. I'd also like to thank the contributors to the Kindle Boards, the Amazon Kindle forums, all the Kindle bloggers, and others who have generously shared their tips and tricks with the Kindle community.

 

Steve wishes to thank all the citizens of Kindle Nation who have shared ideas, criticisms, and questions over the past four years – without you, neither Kindle Nation Daily nor my contributions to this book would be possible. And big thanks to Bruce for your invaluable contributions to this book, and to all my Kindle Nation Daily colleagues and partners.

 
Introduction to the April 2012 Edition: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: How Apple and 5 Big Publishers Almost Got Away with a Massive Price-Fixing Conspiracy to Try to Turn Back the Kindle Revolution, and What It Will Mean for Readers, Authors, and Publishers Going Forward
 

With most of the books that I have published about the Kindle, I am well aware that readers want to charge up their Kindle, turn it on, download some books, and start reading. The purpose of my books is usually to make the experience richer by sharing information about how to get most out of the Kindle and how to find the best books at the best prices.

 

But the clash of forces that have been at war, mostly behind the scenes, in the Kindle revolution has had a dramatic effect on the availability of and the prices we pay for ebooks, and those changes have just begun. The machinations that led to the April 2012 U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust action against Apple and five of the six largest U.S. publishers will provide case study fodder both for law school and business school students for decades to come. The more you know about them, the more savvy an ebook consumer you will be. And while it is a fascinating story
qua
story, it is also no exaggeration to say that, if you have purchased any Kindle books at prices above $9.99 since April 1, 2010, you are likely to be a material party to the anti-trust action with a chance to benefit from a restitution fund that could grow to hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

So fasten your seatbelts, and here we go….

 

Apple. Hachette. HarperCollins. MacMillan. Penguin. Simon & Schuster.

 

One of the most innovative tech companies in the world, and five of the Big Six publishers,

 

That’s what we used to call them. Then, starting early in 2010, we all tried to come up with new names for them. Apple and the Apple Five. The Agency-Model Price-Fixing Co-Conspirators. The Greedy Dinosaur Publishers. But none of our phrase-making efforts had any special felicity.

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