Kindle Shortcuts and Kindle friendly Websites This concise Kindle user guide describes keyboard shortcuts and hidden Kindle features for both Kindle 2 and Kindle 1 Updated 04 28 2009

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Kindle Shortcuts and Kindle friendly Websites This concise Kindle user guide describes keyboard shortcuts and hidden Kindle features for both Kindle 2 and Kindle 1 Updated 04 28 2009

This Kindle user guide describes keyboard shortcuts and hidden Kindle features for both Kindle 2 and Kindle 1.

Selected Kindle 2 Shortcuts

Home Page

Number Key (1, 2, 3, …) and Enter: jump to this list page (e.g. entering 3 will take you to page 3)
If your home page is sorted alphabetically by either Title or Author, enter Letter Keys (a, b, c, …) and press the 5-was controller to jump to the page containing the first book starting with that letter,-The-, “A”, “An” are ignored.
Type in a word (the search box appears automatically) followed by the Enter key: Each book is search for this word. The number of found words is displayed next to the title.
Slide the power switch: Enter/Exit sleep mode (toggle)
Alt+Shift+M: Minesweeper game
Alt+Z: rescan picture directories, , read more about the Image Viewer
To remove a book from Kindle, select the book the 5-way controller, then press the controller left or right.

Book or Periodical Viewing

To display an image in full screen mode: Point the 5-way controller to an image, the magnifying glass will be displayed in the center of the image. Press the controller to view the image in full screen mode. Press the controller again to switch to normal mode.
Alt+B: bookmark the current page, unbookmark the current page
Shift+SYM: start/stop text-to-speech
Alt+Aa: to change text size, text-to-speech speech rate, text-to-speech speaking voice (male or female)
To start text-to-speech at specific point on a page, move the cursor with your 5-way controller to the point just before you want the reading to begin and click Shift+SYM.
Alt+Shift+1 to 9: changes the spacing between lines (the default is 3)
Press the 5-way controller: list sections of periodical.
To view summaries of the articles in a newspaper or a magazine, while viewing the section list, press the 5-way controller to the right to highlight the number showing the number of articles in a section, then press the 5-way select button.
To jump through periodical, Move the 5-way controller to right to go to next article or to the left to go to the previous article
To look up the meaning of a particular word, move the cursor in front of the word. The meaning of the word appears at the bottom of the screen. To view the full definition, press the ENTER key on the keyboard. To return to the text you were reading, press the BACK button.

Search Commands

Type in a word from any screen. A search box will pop up automatically. Move the 5-way controller to the right twice and select the search location.
Alternatively, click Menu Search
Alt+DEL: clear all
To search content by specific author, enter in the Kindle Store search bar:
@author AuthorName keyword

Web Browser

from Home screen: Menu Experimental Basic Web. The last Web site you were viewing in your browser will open up.
or type in a word from any screen. A search box will pop up automatically. Move the 5-way controller to the right twice and select “google” or “wikipedia” from the menu to search those sites directly for the word you typed.
Alt+R: reload web page

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Why did I buy this?
I don’t mean to be cruel, but I don’t know why I spent 99 cents for this. I had some questions regarding shortcuts, but this book didn’t give me the answer. Maybe because there aren’t shortcut keys for what I wanted. Oh, well, live and learn. Like another reviewer said, just google it.

5 Stars Keyboard shortcuts and hidden Kindle features
Kindle Shortcuts and Kindle-friendly Websites. This concise Kindle user guide describes keyboard shortcuts and hidden Kindle features for both Kindle 2 and Kindle 1. Updated 04/28/2009

This manual provides many useful techniques. It contains a lot of information about both Kindle 2 and Kindle 1 that Kindle enthusiasts like myself will find interesting.

5 Stars Great info for Kindle readers
Kindle Shortcuts and Kindle-friendly Websites. This concise Kindle user guide describes keyboard shortcuts and hidden Kindle features for both Kindle 2 and Kindle 1. Updated 04/28/2009

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 $0.99, you get the benefit of this author’s many hours of beta-testing. What’s to regret?

1 Star Don’t bother
Here’s a thought: put the details of hidden functions and shortcuts in the user manual, rather than having a portion of the manual talk about how to buy from Amazon website. The majority of the book of useful shortcuts are shown on the purchasing page for this ‘book’.

1 Star Don’t waste your money
I bought this book and one other in an attempt to learn how to use my new Kindle. There is nothing in this book that you can’t find more quickly and succinctly on the web. Navigating this book on the kindle is slow and cumbersome. I love reading books on the Kindle, not this.

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