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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Font Size Poll Results

November 27, 2008
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Font Size Poll Results

Thank you to everyone who voted. It looks like we have a group that likes those larger fonts, with over half of the votes coming in for the #3 and #4 fonts. According to our font size chart, this means that our readers’ preference is for fonts in the 11 point to 14 point...
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Kindle Navigation Tips #4 – The Back Button

November 21, 2008
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Kindle Navigation Tips #4 – The Back Button

If you really want to get around the content on your Kindle, the “Back” button is key. It isn’t talked about a lot, but there is a big difference between going “back” and going to the “previous page.” Kindle Tips and Troubleshooting at Amazon tells us this much: Back vs. Prev Page: When you...
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Five Navigation Tips for the Kindle – #3: Turning Down the Corners of Pages

November 17, 2008
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Five Navigation Tips for the Kindle – #3: Turning Down the Corners of Pages

This navigation tip for the Kindle comes under the heading of “things you can do for yourself” to make navigation easier. That means setting bookmarks for things that you know you will want to find as you read. You can set a bookmark anywhere in a book by turning down the little page corner...
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Kindle “Out of Memory” Notice from Amazon

November 13, 2008
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Imagine my surprise when I got an email from Amazon telling me that my Kindle was out of memory and that they were waiting to download some content onto my Kindle but that there was no place to put it. “Once you free up space,” the email told me, “the waiting items will be...
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Five Tips for Navigation on the Kindle – #2: Flipper Options

November 13, 2008
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OK, so now you know how to use the Enhanced Progress Bar to jet around the book you are reading. If it is a big text, then this is an immense help. Otherwise, you are left clicking “next page” like the flipper button on a pinball machine. Once you are in the vicinity of...
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Five Tips for Navigation on the Kindle – #1: The Progress Bar

November 12, 2008
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Five Tips for Navigation on the Kindle – #1: The Progress Bar

One of the little known ways to get around the Kindle, especially if you are reading a large document, is to use the Enhanced Progress Bar. (Neat, huh?) So, how to do this? 1. Roll the scroll wheel over the Progress Bar (that line of dots across the bottom of the screen) and click....
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Nervous About Dropping Your Kindle?

November 6, 2008
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Watch the drop test from 30 inches: Schools often get nervous about the fragility of the equipment.  Looks like Kindle could pass the test.
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Student Kindle Comment from the Twitterverse

November 5, 2008
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A recent tweet: Theres nothing better for a boring class than a Kindle : D Not exactly what we had in mind for the Kindle in education…(but it works for me!)
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Kindle “Second Wave” Puts Device in Teachers’ Hands

November 4, 2008
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A school district in Utah has recognized the “simple market forces” that make the Kindle a viable alternative to print text today. A recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune details the purchase of 147 Kindles for teachers to work with so they can familiarize themselves and uncover ways to promote literacy using the...
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Sym is for Symbol on Kindle: Special Characters

November 3, 2008
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Not sure why I couldn’t figure this out but I finally got my answer on how to place hyphens and underscores into URLs that I was typing into the Kindle’s basic web browser. Hit the SYM key (right next to the HOME key in the bottom row and a list of symbols pops up...
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