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 Really basic info This article has very basic information, I know nothing about technology and it didn't have anything in it I hadn't already found out just playing with the web feature myself. I - meaning someone who needed someone to explain to me that I had to drop and drag feedbooks to get them on kindle. It was cheap, but I didn't find it the least bit useful. Spend 5-8 minutes playing on the google web page on the kindle and you'll end up with all the same knowledge. I hope the book offers more, because I can't see paying for a book that is full of info that I can find out myself, with my basic level of knowledge.  Update this title at "Your Media Library" for an additional free excerpt! Here's a tip for Kindle readers and Kindle writers, if you haven't picked up on this already. One of the potentially cool and powerful features of the Kindle is that it allows anyone who has purchased a book or article on the Kindle to automatically receive the freshest version of that title, if it has been updated. All you have to do is go to Your Media Library in your Amazon account, click on the "Downloads" tab from the choices across the top, choose the title you want to refresh from those you have already purchased, and select the "Send wirelessly to your Kindle" button at the right. Presto, you have the new, improved version if there is one! The catch, of course, is that readers do not know when to seek out this refreshed content unless authors or publishers find a way to tell them. So, let me make a point here of asking: if you have purchased any titles from me and would like to get a heads up when an update is available, please shoot me an email at the email address below, tell me what title(s) you bought and anything else you want to tell me, and I will be sure to let you know if revisions are afoot! A Prefatory Note to Readers Thank you for choosing to purchase this article for your Amazon Kindle and joining thousands of Kindle owners who have made it the #1 seller among Kiddle titles for the first two months of 2008!. I hope that it helps enhance your enjoyment of your Kindle. If you have just received your Kindle and this article is one of your first purchases, you and your Kindle are in a for a lot of shared pleasure, and hopefully the ability to use your Kindle for email will be just a small part of that experience. But it can add greatly to the convenience of the device when you are out and about, and I hope this article will smooth out the process of learning to handle email efficiently on the Kindle. As you may have noticed already, this article is actually a chapter that I have excerpted from a short book that is currently in the works about how to get the most from your Kindle. Consequently, it is perhaps a little more of a work in progress than if I had finished it, sent it off to some journal (remember those days?), and forgotten it. However, one of the really cool features of the Kindle, and one that is still largely a secret, is that it is very helpful in accommodating readers and authors around the revision of content that they have already exchanged. If you buy any title for your Kindle and it is later revised (under the same Kindle title and identifying ASIN, of course), you can update your own version of the content in a snap. All you have to do is go, on your desktop or notebook computer, to "Your Media Library." Then click on the "Downloads" tab at the top of the page, find the title that you want to update or recover, and, at the right of the title, click on the "Send wirelessly to Kindle" button. Presto! - you will get the freshest available version, without paying a cent for it. The catch, of course, is knowing when to check for updates. If you would like to receive a brief email message notifying you when any such updates become available, just shoot me an email at indieKindle@gmail.com. Your email address will be help in strict confidence, and in appreciation for your having placed this initial order I will also -- later this year -- make available some of the other material from the book, The Amazing Amazon Kindle, under this listing, so that it is similarly free to you. For starters, today I am adding another free article to this one: "The Amazon Kindle Basic Web Wireless Service: Why It Is a Revolutionary Feature, and Why Amazon Should Keep It Free or Cheap." Additional material will be added each month over the next several months - all at no additional charge. Meanwhile, please also feel free to give me feedback on this content as you read it, via the same email address at indieKindle@gmail.com. In addition to being an author, I am a Kindle owner just like you, and one of my goals -- in addition to keeping the cupboards full and my children's tuitions paid -- is to help make the Kindle experience a positive one. Stephen Windwalker Cambridge February 2008  For newbies only If you're not very good at navigating the internet and if you've never heard of gmail, then there is a tiny bit of information here that you might find useful. Anyone with even a little 'net know-how will likely already have figured out how to check their gmail and a host of other useful sites not discussed here using the streamlined "mobile" content many websites offer and the "Basic Web" functionality on their Kindles. I spent $2.50 on this document hoping to learn some of those other "cool tricks" mentioned in the title, but you must have to buy the full version of the book for that information because this document only covers gmail. Disappointing Unfortunately a rather disappointing article, even for $2.50. I expected a little more insight than "use Google's mobile version" That said the writing style is good, but if you're at all technically minded, the money is better spent elsewhere. | |||||||||||||
