Product Description

Join 30,000 other Kindle owners who have unlocked all the pleasures to Kindle ownership by downloading Stephen Windwalker's premier guide for Kindle owners. This full-length book is over 50,000 words -- the equivalent of 192 "print on paper" pages -- but it is a snap to navigate with a link-enabled table of contents and a detailed, link-enabled FAQ section.

Windwalker's guide was the first full-length book about the Kindle for Kindle users, and it remains the gold standard with all the tips included in the other, shorter, more expensive books that have followed it. If you are trying to make a decision about which Kindle guide is right for you, be sure to try a free sample of this book on your Kindle by clicking on the yellow button above. Once you've checked the table of contents and seen the extensive reach of the information provided by Windwalker as well as its ease of navigation and clear writing style, your decision will be a snap.

Written for serious readers as well as early adopters and "gadget heads", it is now also available in a handy paperback version: the perfect accessory for a Kindle owner who wants to use it alongside his Kindle or the prospective Kindle buyer seeking to complete her due diligence before making a purchase.

For more information see the Harvard Perspectives Press website at hppress.blogspot.com or the webpage for this book at kindleusers.blogspot.com.

For authors and independent publishers who want to make the most of the Kindle publishing opportunity, you may want to consider the 2-for-1 offer of this book with "The Complete Step-by-Step Guide To Publishing Books, Articles & Other Content for the Amazon Kindle" at amazon.com/gp/product/B001AXYLD8.

HIGHLIGHTS:
-How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email
-Using Google Reader to Read Your Favorite Blogs on the Amazon Kindle
-How to Get Free Content for Your Kindle with ManyBooks, Gutenberg and Over a Dozen Other Services
-Traveling with Your Kindle
-Complete Kindle Keyboard and Menu Shortcuts
-The Kindle as a Writing, Editing, and Publishing Device
-Taking Notes on the Kindle - It's All in the Thumbs
-Annotation within a Kindle Document
-Google Notebook
-Annotating Your Working Documents
-Writing and Annotation to Email
-Saving, Printing, Editing and Working With Your Kindle Clippings, Annotations, and Highlighted Text
-The Care and Feeding of Your Kindle's Battery
-The Reset Button is Your First Tech Support Option
-Access Wikipedia More Quickly and Smoothly
-Using "Locations" to Figure Where You Are in a Kindle Edition
-Buying and Sampling Content for Your Kindle From the Amazon Kindle Store
-Updating the Latest Version of Your Kindle’s Operating Software
-Adding an SD Card to Your Kindle
-Getting Help with Your Kindle
-Managing Your Kindle Content
-The Amazon Kindle Basic Web Wireless Service: Why It Is a Revolutionary Feature, and Why Amazon Should Keep It Free or Cheap
-Using the Kindle to Translate Foreign or Technical Words and Phrases
-Making the Most of Your Kindle Connections Overseas or in a Sprint Wireless Dead Zone
-Using the Kindle as a Travel Guide
-The Kindle and GPS - Intriguing but Frustrating
-Checking Sprint Wireless Coverage for the Kindle
-Downloading Kindle Editions Via USB Cable
-20 Steps to Publishing a Kindle Edition of Your Book or Document: How to Use Kindle, Amazon and the Web to Market Your Book and Connect with Readers
-How Many Kindles? Estimating the Current and Future "Installed Base," and Why It Is Important
-The Golden Age of Kindle 2.0 and Beyond:
Kindle Reading Subscriptions, Kindle Buffet, Shop the Amazon Store Through a Kindle Gateway, A Big Tent for Kindle Content Availability On Other Devices, Shop and Play Amazon Music and Audio, Folders and/or Labels, Size, Location and Configuration of Bars, Buttons, and Switches, Writeable Screen, Green Tax Credit, and More

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52 in eBooks
• Published on: 2007-12-19
• Format: Kindle Book

Review
33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 100% Worthwhile Investment, April 29, 2008 By K. Blaeser skipblazer (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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. --Amazon Customer Reviews

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 100% Worthwhile Investment, April 29, 2008 By K. Blaeser skipblazer (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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. --Amazon Customer Reviews

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 100% Worthwhile Investment, April 29, 2008 By K. Blaeser skipblazer (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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. --Amazon Customer Reviews ... 9 of 12 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars

INSPIRING AND MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT ELSE THERE IS INSIDE THIS DEVICE..., May 3, 2008 By M. Burgos

Expert Kindle graphics artist (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very interesting read. Ebooks like this should be encouraged. There's clearly more to the Kindle than meets the eye! --Amazon Customer Reviews .... With over 30,000 copies sold, The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle has helped thousands of current and prospective Kindle owners get the most out of their Kindles or conduct the due diligence necessary to decide if the device makes sense for them. Here are just a few of the dozens of five-star reviews that this book has received since it was first published in beta form under the title How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email and Other Cool Tricks in December 2007:

Stephen Windwalker has done it again. --Manuel Burgos, author of Graphics on the Kindle

77 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

Great info for Kindle readers, many thanks!, March 26, 2008 By P.E. (TN, USA)

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. --Amazon Customer Reviews

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars

INSPIRING AND MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT ELSE THERE IS INSIDE THIS DEVICE..., May 3, 2008 By M. Burgos

Expert Kindle graphics artist (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very interesting read. Ebooks like this should be encouraged. There's clearly more to the Kindle than meets the eye! --Amazon Customer Reviews

About the Author
Stephen Windwalker is the founder of Harvard Perspectives Press, the Kindle Home Page website at kindlehomepage.blogspot.com, and the author of half a dozen books and numerous articles and short stories. He reports: I cut my teeth as a writer covering the Cape Cod Baseball League and other sports for what was then called the Cape Cod Standard-Times and later the Boston Globe, studied the craft of writing with Robert Lowell, Kurt Vonnegut, Monroe Engel and Carter Wilson, and served as Fiction Editor of the Harvard Advocate. In 1999 I founded a small independent publishing company called Harvard Perspectives Press (named after two of my favorite institutions from my undergraduate years, the Harvard House of Pizza and the Harvard Wine Company), and it has done astonishingly well, with a couple of niche bestsellers, other work that we have been proud to publish, and now some stunning successes with the Kindle publishing platform. I'm proud to be a member of the Boston chapter of the National Writers Union and the Independent Book Publishers Association.

Customer Reviews

Kindle Help
The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle

I found this book to be interesting, helpful and an easy read. I purchased a "Kindle" and was looking for information to make my experience with the Kindle a good one. Steve's book not only met all my needs but he personally went the extra step to direct me to other helpful sites to help me in my own search to self-publish.

If you have purchased a "Kindle" and need a few pointers this is the book for you. And as an extra bonus you'll find some really good bargains inside.

Thank you Steve for a wonderful read.

A must read for the new Kindle owner
Mr. Windwalker's enthusiasm for the Kindle shines through in the enthusiasm of his writing as well as in the range of tips, advice, and thoughts he provides on the Kindle.

Obviously, as with any book of this type, Kindle users will have discovered some or many of the ideas presented for themselves. However, even I, a true Kindle lover and gadget geek, mined valuable information that I had not discovered on my own. The tips range from the merely fun (how to find Minesweeper) to the extremely useful (where to find free content, keyboard shortcuts, how to use the Kindle during travel, how to manage photos and audio files).

To me, the most fun and interesting part of the book were the author's speculations on the possible future of the Kindle and how it might be a paradigm-changing device.

Everyone who owns a Kindle should also own this book.

great book. This book should be your first Kindle purchase.
This book will help you understand your new Kindle. It is a "How to" book for the Kindle. Do not pass up this book. The Kindle is an amazing piece of technology and this book makes understanding it so easy. I give this book 10 stars.