Kindle Tips - I wiil share kindle tips to you
1. Eliminate Image Burn
Like CRT monitors of old, the eInk display on the Kindle sometimes
suffers from image burn when you leave the same screen on it for too
long. If doing so leaves traces of words or images, don’t worry, you
haven’t ruined the display. Just refresh the screen by pressing Alt + G
on the Kindle keyboard.
2. Create notes and highlight passages.
Updates to the Kindle’s software brought welcome functionality to notes and highlights features. Users can now add them to PDF files and books, then share those notes with friends.
Highlight: Move the cursor to text you want to start highlighting, then press the center of the joystick/controller (as if you were selecting an option). The cursor will slant to the right. Move the cursor right to select a small passage or down to select one line at a time. Click the joystick/controller again to stop highlighting or the Back button to cancel.
You don’t need to exit the book you’re reading to access the Kindle’s browser and look up words or phrases via online resources.
Notes: Use the joystick or 5-way controller to move the cursor to where you want to attach a note in the text. Start typing on the Kindle’s keyboard, which will automatically bring up the notes window. Once you’re done, press down on the joystick/controller to highlight one of the options: Cancel, Clear, Save & Share, or Save.
Highlight: Move the cursor to text you want to start highlighting, then press the center of the joystick/controller (as if you were selecting an option). The cursor will slant to the right. Move the cursor right to select a small passage or down to select one line at a time. Click the joystick/controller again to stop highlighting or the Back button to cancel.
3. Search the dictionary, Google, Wikipedia, and more from within a book.
- Move the cursor anywhere in the book and start typing. The notes window will pop up.
- Instead of choosing one of the four options you see by default, click the joystick/controller down once, then to the right to access the search set of options: Dictionary, Find, Google, My Items, Store, or Wikipedia.
- Choosing Google or Wikipedia will launch the Kindle browser.
4. Save and share notes and highlights.
Amazon
gives users access to notes and highlighted passages online at
kindle.amazon.com and through the desktop software for PCs or Macs.
However, you can grab a plain text copy of all notes and highlights at
once.Save:
- Connect the Kindle to your computer via USB.
- Navigate to the documents folder and copy the MyClippings.txt file to your computer. (This simple text file will list notes and highlights in the order they were created.)
If
you’re a social reader, the Kindle now makes it easy to share favorite
passages and annotations with your friends via Facebook and Twitter. But
there are limits in both instances. Notes you share to the web are
limited to 120 characters (leaving room for a link to the book and the #kindle hashtag). Saved notes don’t have this limit and are still
visible via the online Kindle interface, though not to others. Shared
passages can be much longer, but no matter how much you highlight, the
link will only show around 460 characters to your friends.- First, go to Menu > Settings > Social Networks to set up and manage your social networking profiles.
- Once that’s done, whenever you create a new note in a book or highlight a passage, the Kindle will give you the option of sharing it on Facebook or Twitter.
Long-press the Image and, after a couple of seconds, you'll get a popup with an option to "Zoom" Click on that. If the image is in Landscape mode, rotate the KFire. Then if you still can't see enough detail, pinch zoom to enlarge it, zooming-in even more for detail.
NOTE: This also works for the Paperwhite and Kindle Touch except for the pinch-zoom.
