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The Kindle Cookbook: How To Do Everything the Manual Doesn't Tell You | 
| Author: David Emberson
Publisher: Rohala Limited, LLC
Category: EBooks
List Price: $4.99
Buy New: $3.99
You Save: $1.00 (20%)
Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: Revised 3rd
ASIN: B001GIPJ2Y
Publication Date: December 16, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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The Kindle Cookbook provides stey-by-step recipes to do everything the Kindle User's Guide doesn't tell you about--for free. Learn the Kindle's hidden secrets and follow clear, convenient instructions to unlock them. The Kindle Cookbook's handy reference format will make this one book that is always loaded on your Kindle! - What the Kindle Manual Doesn't Tell You - Computers and SD Cards - File Formats - Copy Protection - Access 1000,000+ Free Books - Email, Instant Messaging and News - Send And Receive Email From Your Kindle-Using Any Email Address! - Browse RSS Feeds Using Google Reader - Using Google Calendar - 34,000+ Free Daily News Feeds You Can Download To Your Kindle--Automatically! - Instant Messaging with Yahoo Messenger - Searching the Dictionary, Wikipedia and the Internet - Look Up Any Word In The Dictionary - Look Up Anything in Wikipedia-The Easy Way - Search the Web - Search the Kindle Store - Navigation, Bookmarks, Clippings and Notes - Automatic Page Turning - Text Justification - Printing, Images and Illustrations - Save An Image of Your Kindle's Screen - Print Pages From An Ebook - How to Zoom Those Tiny Little Illustrations - Picture Viewer - Converting Files to Kindle Format - Convert Multiple Documents and Download to Your Kindle - Converting PDF Files - Converting Microsoft .LIT Files - Converting Sony .LRF Files - Convert Anything That Can Be Printed On Your Computer - Audio Books on the Kindle - Playing MP3 Audio Books on the Kindle - Playing iTunes Audio Books on the Kindle - Converting AAC, M4A and M4B Audio Books for the Kindle - Free Audio Books - Playing Music on the Kindle - Kindle Internet User's Groups - KindleCookbook.com - Amazon's Digital Text Platform - Kindle Blogs - KindleFeeder - Feedbooks News Stand - GPS On Your Kindle! - Minesweeper - Display the Time
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| Customer Reviews: Read 30 more reviews...
 Book Should Have Been Titled: "Beyond The Kindle Users' Guide- Made Easy" October 23, 2008
L. Hum (Southern Calif.)
64 out of 65 found this review helpful
As a new Kindle owner and an avid follower of the Amazon "Kindle Discussion" forums I knew that the Kindle had the capability to perform a multitude of tasks not listed in the Users' Guide. I also knew that I purchased this rather expensive device simply for convenience-convenience of reading,obtaining and storage of books. And when I used the Kindle I wanted to utilize all the potential short cuts of the Kindle and to optimize the use of the whisper-net(not limited to just obtaining books from Amazon.com). I did not want to use USB cables unless it was absolutely necessary...again I paid good money for the convenience...so why not spend $4 more to make sure I've optimized my convenience?
The problem was that I am only marginally technically competent and I am also a "techno-phobe" (reason why I don't want to use USB cables). With all that in mind I decided to down-load the sample of "The Kindle Cookbook."
Frankly I found the sample a bit scarce. The sample simply contained the book's Table of Contents and a couple of introductory remarks. Hardly impressive. However what drew me in was "The CookBook provides step by step recipes for capabilities you won't find in the Users'Guide." Further, the Table of Contents listed topic after topic of Kindle capabilities that I had encountered in my followings of the Amazon Kindle discussion forums. Needless to say the forums had not always explained clearly and simply how to accomplish all of the above. Thus I risked $4 to download the complete CookBook.
Best $4 I ever spent. There was no re-hashing of the Users'Guide. The book explained each topic in simple step by step manner. In the first night alone I downloaded several free books via whisper-net from non-Amazon.com websites. This alone was worth the $4 but I went on to learn other ways to maximize the use of my Kindle.
My advice is to first review the Table of Contents(using the free sample download). If one or more of these listed Kindle capabilities /topics are worth $4 to you then buy the book with the confidence that these capabilities will be easily realized with the purchase of the book. And yes, you may learn about some of these Kindle capabilities on the internet but for $4 I would just assume store all this information conveniently in my Kindle. So for all you out there who are like me (techno-phobes who possess limited technical skills) this book is for you. Enjoy!
Easier to use than other guides October 16, 2008
Kevin P. Menard (Denton, Texas USA)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
This is one of those books I wish I read first. I have two other Kindle guides and, while there is information overlap, this guide is much easier to use. I'd recommend this to a new Kindle owner as the one he should get.
I was moderately disappointed it wasn't really a cookbook thro. Recipes on a Kindle would be cool.
Great complement to the Kindle's User Guide - Guides of this type are indispensable for any Kindle owner. September 29, 2008
GatorDeb (Las Vegas, NV)
26 out of 28 found this review helpful
There are many Kindle guides out there and this is the first one I read. There's currently 3 guides out there and I'd recommend getting all three in case each one has even one bit of information that the other two don't. The price can't be beat!
This one covers a lot of information including free books, free newsfeeds, and other services. I've spent a lot of time on my Kindle so I had already come across most of it, but it did give me Google Reader's mobile address. I didn't know there was a mobile Google Reader site, and just for that information alone it was worth the buy. Has a lot of useful links. Easy to understand and straightforward - not techie at all. So if someone who has spent countless hours researching Kindle stuff found new stuff in this guide, there's a good chance you'll find quite a bit of new stuff too! Highly recommended.
Good first book October 31, 2008
A. Strauss (Ridgewood, NJ United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a good book for someone just getting a Kindle. This is not a techi book that teaches you how to hack the Kindle to do stuff that it was not designed to do, but rather takes you step by step to those features designed into the kindle but not explained in the user guide. Among other features it shows you how to convert documents, music, and audiobooks to Kindle acceptable format, send and receive Email, load and display pictures and find 100,000+ free ebooks. Many of these operations require the use of free software available on the web. This book gives very clear straightforward step by step instructions for implementing this software. The greatest benefit to me in reading this book is in the time it saves me in accomplishing these tasks. All of the information contained in this book and the programs are available on the internet but require a lot of time to search and alot of time fiddling with the software and the Kindle to get them to work.
Time saved is worth $3.99!!! October 12, 2008
Johanna Houman (Concord, New Hampshire)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is well worth the time saved researching all of the helpful hints I got. I make $4.00 in about eight minutes at work - it would have taken me hours to sit down at the computer and with the Kindle to figure out all the stuff David has thoughtfully researched and documented in a concise, well crafted book. Thank you, David!
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