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Kindle Shortcuts
Here are the Amazon-authorized Kindle shortcuts**, posted today on Amazon’s Kindle Blog:
As you’re reading your content:
Alt + B = bookmark
Alt + T = spell out time
Alt + Next Page = Jump ahead by 5% go forward to next annotation or “chunk” of text
Alt + Prev Page = Jump back by 5% go back to previous annotation or “chunk” of text
In “Home”:
Alt + T = show time
Number keys = jump to corresponding page in the Home Menu
Alphabet keys = jump to corresponding page from alpha-sorted Home Menu
Search (push the Search bar):
@store = store search shortcut
@web = Web search shortcut (Google)
@wiki = Wikipedia search shortcut
@time = show current date and time
Font (aA options)
J = show/hide justification options
Audio Player:
Alt + F = next song
At any time, you’re able to put your Kindle to sleep and wake it up with Alt + aA.
More shortcuts to come in a little while.
** however — Amazon is wrong! they said “Alt + Next Page = go forward to next annotation or “chunk” of text”, which does NOT WORK: it jumps you forward 5% of the length of the book, but it does NOT jump you to the next annotation!
Importing “My Clippings”
Connect your kindle to your PC or Mac, using the USB cable.
Look in Kindle/Documents for the file “My Clippings.txt” as shown here.
Copy this file to your computer — somewhere that you know you’ll find it later.
Open this file:
Copy all the text in the file (in notepad, use Control-A and then Control-C).
File conversion
I want the Kindle team to update their file conversion service to include chapter headings.
It would be wonderfully useful if, when I send a word or rtf file to my kindle address, and it includes a table of contents or just Chapter markings (Chapter 1, Chapter 10, at the beginning of pages) it arrived on my kindle with a built-in table of contents, or bookmarks made at each page beginning with “Chapter XX” page.
