Kindle How-To

What’s wrong with Clean Reader? Maybe nothing…

When I asked educators about the usefulness of Clean Reader, the responses were definitive. Teachers don’t like it. It smacks of censorship. It dilutes the purpose of art, or worse–it bastardizes it in the name of correctness. One teacher said that the app is “a violation of all of the principles of intellectual freedom that…

How to clear the application storage on Kindle Fire

April left a comment on the post about cleaning up your Kindle Fire: “The internal storage is all clear, yay! BUT… the APPLICATION STORAGE is still nearly full. I have looked every place I can think of with the file explorer and cannot find where this is stored. Please help!” I suggest the following: Try…

Which Kindle or Kindle Fire do I have?

Sometimes you want to know what your Kindle can do, accommodate, connect with, and so forth. And sometimes you need to know what model you have to answer that question. My question is, will my Kindle Fire HD allow me to “quick switch” between running apps and such without returning to the home page or…

How to clean up your Kindle Fire

A lot of Amazon Kindle Fire users have been hit with a message about low storage space or less memory on their devices. One reason for this problem is that the apps that are installed on the Kindle Fire are running in background, performing certain operations that consume both memory and storage. There are few…

Beware Automatic Book Updates on Kindle

Related Content: Should You De-Synchronize Your Kindle? If you have been reading this blog, you know I am an awestruck fan of the Amazon reading ecosystem and the many, many ways it improves the reading experience, even if you can’t easily find that free book you are looking for… But you have to remember that…