Kindle Tips

Welcome, new Kindletips readers!    If you’re a new Kindle user, here’s some helpful posts that you may want to see:

Kindle Shortcuts

Importing My Clippings (obtaining your own notes is a rather unwieldy task)

Putting your own pictures on the Kindle :

Adding pdfs to your Kindle:

And my personal wishlist of tips and tweaks:

1. Notes organization:
   1. All notes, bookmarks, and clippings are mixed together in the text file called “My Clippings” by the date entered;  I’d like to see them sorted by book and book page (or even chapter heading!).
   2. All notes are cited only by location in the text.
   3. I’d like to email my notes on one document to myself – or otherwise retrieve them without jumping through the hoops of importing my clippings
2. Book organization:  I have 14 pages of books right now.  I’d like to put them in folders:  new submissions, client books, pleasure reading.
3. Page numbers:  My colleague would very much like to be able to tell how long a book or proposal is – while within the document as well as looking at the Home screen.    Book page numbering is not yet obsolete, when we as readers go from kindle to book to computer screen every day!
4. Chapter headings on our own documents would also be useful. Particularly if page numbering isn’t possible.
5. Faster text entry.  The keyboard has a pronounced delay, which makes making notes difficult.
6. Gifts: I’d like to be able to send a gift to another Kindle user
7. I’d like it to be easier to switch credit cards for Kindle purchases – even to be able to on the device itself.
8. Add Conde Nast magazines - including the New Yorker.  Newspapers are well represented in their availability on the Kindle, but magazines are not, yet.

Please feel free to add your own wishlist items or shortcuts to this list — and if you have any questions, our “research team” is happy to pursue new problems!

Amazon is offering free downloads of current newspaper issues of The New York Times from November 3-6, and free The Washington Post subscriptions from November 2-5.   If you want to get them, just go to the links above and click “get current issue.”

I’m not sure if these will be updated as much as the web pages this evening, but hey — we’ll all be checking every form of media we can this evening, why not add another to the mix?

(GO VOTE!)