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| How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email & Over 100 Pages of Other Cool Tips (The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle - Final days at "BETA" price) | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Harvard Perspectives Press (kindleusers.blogspot.com)
Category: EBooks
List Price: $2.99
Buy New: $2.39
You Save: $0.60 (20%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 17
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: Revised 7.2.08
ASIN: B0011XW1E8
Publication Date: December 19, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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Product Description
These bestselling excerpts from Stephen Windwalker's forthcoming book are a Kindle owner's dream, now over 25,000 words in length and newly packed with great tips such as Using Google Reader to Read Blogs on the Kindle, How to Use the Kindle for Email, Optimizing Your Use of Kindle Search, Projecting a Kindle Future, Writing and Note Taking on Your Kindle, Using "Locations" to Figure Out How Close You Are to the End of a Kindle Edition, Making the Most of Your Kindle Connections Overseas or in a Sprint Wireless Dead Zone, Using the Kindle as a Travel Guide, Using the Kindle to Translate Foreign or Technical Words and Phrases, Refresh Revised Content At No Charge, Kindle Accessories, and Care and Feeding of Your Kindle Battery. Readers may update this content at any time through Amazon's "Your Media Library" feature. The forthcoming book will be available **at no additional charge** as an upgrade to readers who have already purchased these excerpts when published in its entirety later in 2008.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 78 more reviews...
 Great info for Kindle readers, many thanks! March 26, 2008
67 out of 72 found this review helpful
Informative and expanding, much information that an avid reader-turned-Kindle-reader might otherwise miss. Available elsewhere? Definitely, and those with an urge to tinker will find it. But if your focus is on the books and you are the sort who looks for answers in the user manual, then articles such as this are invaluable.
This is the first review I have ever submitted to Amazon. Must admit that the electronic shouting matches that many of these review lists become puts me off. But the potential for a real paradigm shift in how we use, and value, "cyber access" exists here and the window won't likely stay open long. The more folks learn about the possibilities, the greater the push. Stephen Windwalker appears to be writing for the "typical Kindle buyer" who wants an electronic reader for the convenience of having a lot of books in a small, transportable package. Thoughts of expanded uses are not even entertained in many cases. Without articles like this to inform the conventional user of these possibilities, many will be happy, contented readers and never know other capabilities exist.
Kindle is a terrific way to read books. I started a skeptic, bought my wife one as a gift, and we now have a pair. (She offered to share but I knew she didn't really want to.) We are both voracious readers, several books a week when we aren't being consumed by one work crisis or another. While we both have the tech savvy to figure out anything that is discussed in this article, for a couple dollars we didn't have to. It came instantly to my Kindle at the push of a button. And that is the bottom line for me.
Any information worth having is worth a couple dollars if you can get what you need in a concise, ordered format and if it saves you the time you would have spent in finding it yourself. The more people that have this information, the more clamor there will be to enhance and expand these capabilities, and the sooner the better. And that will make a $2.39 investment seem like a prophetic decision.
 For newbies only February 18, 2008
61 out of 77 found this review helpful
If you're not very good at navigating the internet and if you've never heard of gmail, then there is a tiny bit of information here that you might find useful. Anyone with even a little 'net know-how will likely already have figured out how to check their gmail and a host of other useful sites not discussed here using the streamlined "mobile" content many websites offer and the "Basic Web" functionality on their Kindles. I spent $2.50 on this document hoping to learn some of those other "cool tricks" mentioned in the title, but you must have to buy the full version of the book for that information because this document only covers gmail.
Disappointing February 15, 2008
45 out of 57 found this review helpful
Unfortunately a rather disappointing article, even for $2.50. I expected a little more insight than "use Google's mobile version" That said the writing style is good, but if you're at all technically minded, the money is better spent elsewhere.
DON'T BOTHER!!!! February 23, 2008
44 out of 62 found this review helpful
The author has found a wonderful way to make money move toward him! There's nothing in this tiny work that you won't learn for free, don't waste your money.
100% Worthwhile Investment April 30, 2008
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
Like many new Kindle users, I bought this "cool tricks" Kindle book on my first buying spree about 2 months ago. I reserved judgment on how useful it would be until now, giving myself a chance to both read the material and receive the very helpful free emails that the author offers as a bonus, if you choose to send him your email address. The very first tip that came through that I used, a tip on a free download, in one click repaid the cost of the initial "cool tricks" book. High energy author who is motivated to find a position in this new market, and why not? Someone's got to save time for the rest of us, and I appreciate it.
Yes, technically all the information contained therein could be found for free if one had enough time, but if I had that much time and energy, I could also eventually travel to libraries to borrow, and back to return, every time I wanted to read a title for "free". "Free" is not the primary motivation of Kindle users, it's convenience, and personally, I find this "cool tricks" Kindle guide a no-brainer, common sense investment. For a couple of dollars, you get the benefit of this author's many hours of beta-testing. What's to regret?
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