Here are the things you can do with an Amazon Kindle and how to do them…
1. How to Turn On Your Kindle
There is a slide switch at the very top of your kindle. Slide it over for a couple of seconds and it turns on.
2. How to Turn Off Your Kindle
Slide the switch at the top over for at lease 9 seconds and it will turn it off. The screen will go blank. I know the Amazon documentation says you have to slide it for 4 seconds, but thats wrong. With mine, its a good, solid 9 seconds.
3. How To Increase The Font Size
On the keypad in the front, there is a key that says “Aa”. If you click this key a little box will pop up. Then all you need to do is to move the cursor over to whatever size font you like. (The cursor is controlled by the little square ‘joystick’ to the left of the Kindle keyboard)
4. How To Check What Version Of The Kindle Operating System You Have
The most recent Kindle operating system is version 2.3
The way you can check what operating system you have is by clicking on the “Home” botton, then the ‘Menu” button, then scroll down to “Settings” and press the little “joystick” cursor (the 5 way controller).
Then, look at the very bottom of the screen and you will see on the right the version number of your operating system.
5. How To Delete A Book You Don’t Want From Your Kindle
Scroll down to the book you want to delete. Then move the 5 way contoller to the left and a little symbol will come up on the screen that says “Delete”. Then just press the 5 way controller.
6. How To Upload A Book
You need to make sure that your Kindle is registered to your Amazon account. If you bought it for yourself, then once you buy it, Amazon automatically registers it to your account. But if it was given to you as a gift, then you will need to get the purchaser to “de-register” the kindle from their account and you can then “Register” it in your account.
Once you have the Kindle registered in your Amazon account, then its easy to get a book.
You can either log in to Amazon from your computer or you can do it from your Kindle. If you log in from your computer, then from the Amazon menu choose “Kindle”, then “Kindle Store”. If you are using your Kindle, then press “Home”, then press “Menu”. Scroll down to “Shop in Kindle Store”.
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7. How To register or deregister your Kindle:
- If you are not already on the Home screen, press the “Home” button.
- Press the “Menu” button. Make sure that Whispernet is turned on.
- Move the 5-way down until “Settings” is underlined and press to select.
- Press the 5-way to select “register” or “deregister” from the Settings screen.
- If you’re registering Kindle, enter your Amazon.com user name and password (the e-mail address and password associated with your Amazon account) using the keyboard.
- Navigate the 5-way to select “OK” to finish the process or “Cancel” to abort.
Tip: If your Amazon user name or password contains characters not present on the Kindle keyboard, press the Symbol key to see a menu of additional characters. You can also register or deregister your Kindle on the Manage Your Kindle page.
8. How to Find Books In The Public Domain
Books in the public domain are VERY COOL since they are almost always free. I think the rule is that the author has to have been dead for 100 years.
All you need to do is go to the Kindle Store (Kindle… Kindle Store) then type “Public Domain” in the search box. It will probably be better if you type the name of the author or book title, but at first just type public domain and you will see all the choices. Scroll through it for a while and you’ll get a good idea of what’s available. (For FREE!)
