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Kindle Tips & Tricks

Here are some Tips, Tricks and Info for the Kindle 2.0

Type page number to go to specific page in Kindle Home
Do NOT let the battery drain until depleted. Amazon recommends ‘topping off’ the battery
Press ALT+G to refresh the screen
ALT +DEL deletes the entire line when entering text in a search field
ALT+B adds a bookmark
UP on the controller or the BACK button closes search box
SHIFT+SYM starts Text-to-Speech (while in a book)
SPACEBAR opens the search box
ALT+SPACEBAR to play or stop MP3:
ALT+F to Forward to next MP3:
Search for content in the Kindle Store by a specific author: type in search bar “@author [author's name]” . This will narrow your Kindle Store search to find only books written by that author
When at the bottom of a page, DOWN on the controller goes to the top of that page
To charge while connected to the pc (in Windows) go to Start, My Computer. Right-click the drive letter labeled Kindle and select Eject to use your Kindle while charging
Type your search criteria and move the cursor to the right two times for google, wikipedia or content search
Charging light will turn green when fully charged
Press “menu” and on the top line, it will show the time (centered) and on the left, it will show the space available on your Kindle in MB.
ALT+SHIFT+ 1 thru 9 will change the line spacing; a different spacing for each number
If you are listening to something with the text-to-speech feature, you can pause the reading by pressing the space bar. Hit the space bar again to restart
While in Settings window
- 411 – shows diagnostic data
- 611 – shows current radio diagnostics data and keeps refreshing it
Turn WhisperSYNC off via Manage your Kindle, its at the very bottom of the page but only appears if you have more than one Kindle
ALT+SHIFT+G to take screen shots. Screenshots are saved into the documents folder, viewable when the Kindle is attached to the computer
To avoid the $ .10 charge for document conversion, email your attachment to Your...@free.kindle.com. Amazon will return the converted document to you via email for manual uploading onto the your device.
If you need to return a Kindle purchase, you must do so within 7 days. Use the Customer Service button on your Amazon Kindle Support page