Kindle Tips

I’m thrilled to have you join us in this brave new world of kindling! (and blogging!)

I can proudly say that I use my Kindle every day. What’s more, I have completely decimated my reading pile — going from a several month lag time on longer submissions to being almost completely caught up. It’s a tremendous tool.

It’s also ever so much fun to show off to all and sundry — friends, editors, agents, neighbors, people on the street … Yes, I am a proud early adopter.

And I’m a tinkerer; I’m convinced that there’s probably a way to do That Thing that I want to do, and with enough messing around, and enough googling, I’ll find it. And if I don’t, I’ll make it up.

The post Importing “My Clippings” is a case in point — I knew there had to be a way to get my notes on a personal document into readable and usable shape. So when Amazon’s help staff responded to my questions with a “not yet,” I figured it out myself. And because it was such a pain to do it all myself — and I know three people who’ve just bought Kindles to read and edit manuscripts — I wanted to share it.

So — welcome! I hope these are helpful to you. If there’s anything you want to know how to do, ask me or Stuart! We’ll try to find a way to do it, or at least let you know that there are others out there who are struggling with the same thing … and we’ll let all our readers know, so we can all submit questions to Amazon’s Kindle Feedback team, so they know there’s a demand for that particular tool.