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Even newspapers are starting to go down because people read the news on their computers. Don’t we people get enough screens and buttons in our lives? Why must we read books on screens, that’s like the only thing left that people read on paper. That’s how it always has been until the invention of e-books which are silly. Books are meant to be read on paper, not a screen. And what if something goes wrong with the Kindle, like it breaks or something? With actual books, you can’t break a book, you can tear a page but you can just tape it back. Jo tweets as actual books! Because, what if you run out of battery power, will you just have to stop reading? With actual books, you can read for however long you want.
AMAZON SEND TO KINDLE HOW TO
Jo is a keen user of technology and gadgets and is particularly interested in how to utilise mobile technologies in libraries. This post first appeared on Jo’s blog Joeyanne Libraryanne on December 11th, 2011, at: Do you have any other tips to share? Let me know in the comments or share on Twitter using the #kindletips hashtag. I hope you find these tips useful – there are also some useful posts from Simon Barron and Bethan Ruddock. Minesweeper on Kindle (click for larger image)
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You can play games on it – reading work reports on your Kindle isn’t totally distraction free when you realise you can play a couple of games on your Kindle! Alt, Shift and m gets you to Minesweeper and then you can press g to go to Gomoku (5 in a row). To get the screenshot, plug your Kindle into your computer and your screenshot will be there in the documents folder for you to copy to your computer.ĥ.
To take a screenshot you just press down Alt, Shift and g. You can take screenshots (to then share electronically) – this is how I created the images for this blog post. Google Reader on Kindle (click for larger image)Ĥ. The only downside is that you only have one window on Kindle so any links that want to open in a new window you won’t be able to open.
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You just hit key f once it’s loaded to make it full screen and then use j and k to navigate up and down the items (these work in any browser – see this list of keyboard shortcuts for Google Reader). You can read your RSS feeds in full screen mode through the browser – I use Google Reader and one of the cool things you can do with that is make it full screen in your browser.
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Original PDF (click for larger image) Converted PDF (click for larger image)ģ. Although there are a few misalignments I was very impressed that the table of contents in the document remained functional in the converted version (so you can click on the title in the TOCs and it will jump to the relevant section of the PDF – very useful for longer documents). The example below shows the original (smaller text) and the converted below (where text can be adjusted to any size). It’s an ‘experimental’ feature so doesn’t always work perfectly, but I’ve never had any problems other than occasionally with images/tables. All you need to do is use the subject Convert in the email you send with the PDF attached. One feature I use a lot is to convert PDF into Kindle format. You can zoom in but it’s not exactly easy to navigate. one PDF page to one Kindle screen) but this can make for some tiny writing. You can convert PDFs to Kindle format simply by adding the word ‘Convert’ in the subject of the email – by default the Kindle will display PDFs as is (i.e. You can send the following types of documents:Ģ. 3G access) but don’t want to spend too much by accident – I’ve set my maximum cost as £0.00 so it will never cost me but you could just set a low limit. You can also set a maximum cost if you want to use the Whispernet feature (i.e. The free one basically means it will use the wireless network rather than 3G (Whispernet) and that means you won’t pay for receiving the document.
You get a email address and a (both of which you set up in your Amazon account). I use this feature to forward longer documents I’ve received by email (or reports I find online) to send them to my Kindle to be read on there. You can send personal documents to your Kindle by email – more info here. I noticed from conversations on social media however that some features of the Kindle I love are unknown to other Kindle owners, so I’m sharing a few tips about the way I use my Kindle (a third generation Kindle with keyboard and 3G access) that you might not know about.ġ. With the different models available and decreasing prices, more and more people seem to be purchasing Amazon Kindles.
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