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|  | Author: Aaron Steinhardt PhD
Publisher: MobileReference
Category: eBooks
This item is no longer available
Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 223
Format: Kindle Book
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00256Z3CM
Publication Date: April 3, 2009
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Showing reviews 51-55 of 57
 nice guide for the kindle 2 April 30, 2009
Thomas E. Giblin (Chicago, IL)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
only a penny and lots of tips and links. A must have for kindle useres!
 Free? April 28, 2009
M. E. Kerr (Virginia)
3 out of 20 found this review helpful
A lot of stuff I'll never use... while 0.01, not exactly FREE as the title suggests. A nitpicker may cry false advertising...
Not even for a penny... April 27, 2009
Mary Feathers (Virginia)
6 out of 17 found this review helpful
After reading thru this reference book, I thought what a waste of a penny. Many of the bookmarks listed in this reference are already included in the Kindle. This really didn't tell me anything that I didn't alredy know. Maybe some will find this useful, but i did not. Sorry...
 You get what you pay for, I suppose... April 25, 2009
Brian Hartman (Scotch Plains, NJ United States)
30 out of 45 found this review helpful
As others have suggested, a lot of this information is available online (or even in the Kindle User Guide). I suppose that would be worth a penny, if it brought all this information together in a reasonable way.
The problem is, it doesn't.
The guide is horribly disorganized. Specifically, the guide touts itself as for "both Kindle 2 and Kindle 1", but the tips are actually mixed together, with the vast majority of the (short) book written with the Kindle 2 in mind. That might be understandable, if the Kindle 1 tips worked. However, if you have a Kindle 1, you'll see that many of the tips suggested in the "Kindle 1 Shortcuts" section of the guide *don't* work. Not only can you *not* simply start typing to search for a word (anywhere that I've found on the Kindle 1, either in the Home screen or in any book), but there are numerous references to "the 5-way controller", which the Kindle 1 doesn't even have.
If you really feel you need to read this for some reason, I would highly suggest finding somewhere to download it from and to load it on your Kindle via USB. At least then you won't be charged ten times what the book is worth (and I'm being generous there, but only because 10 x 0 = 0, which, while an accurate assessment of what the book is worth, is 10c less than what you're charged for the download).
 Worth the penny promo April 21, 2009
df (PA, USA)
15 out of 28 found this review helpful
Version 11.1
Ok, so it was worth the penny I paid in the promo back in April. I learned a few new things, but it's only okay.
The guide has 104 locations and is split into 3 sections: Kindle 1, Kindle 2 and Kindle-friendly websites.
The first 12% of those locations is taken up with examples of books available from MobileReference, so that leaves about 91 locations dedicated to the Guide itself.
The Kindle 1 section wasn't relevant to me, and the Kindle-friendly website list is provided on the Kindle 2 anyway, so that left me with the Kindle 2 section.
That's split into various sections itself:
- how to use the kindle (on/off, selecting books, highlighting text, using the dictionary, using Find feature or jump to location);
- shortcuts: refresh the screen, how to change font size, how to take a screenshot, how to find the Mindsweeper game;
- and a few other useful tidbits, such as loading & viewing images, loading & listening to MP3s.
Most of the information is pretty basic - if you are reading the Guide on your Kindle, you don't need to read how to turn it on, or select a book. Much of the information is within the Kindle itself (Menu/ Experimental for the web etc), or in the User Guide, or even on the Product review within Amazon.
Edited to Add: I see that the Guide was updated since I purchased in in April, and that it now has a longer list of Kindle-friendly websites & "How to Email" information.
I downloaded the updated version from my Manage My Kindle Page - the download is titled updated, however it still brings up version 11.1 not 11.2. (Maybe the guide should have a section "How to get the updated version.")
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