Simply Googling this question didn’t really help me very much, so here is the answer I discovered by trial and error. Get logged into Amazon on your laptop and navigate your browser to alexa.amazon.com or open the Alexa app on your tablet or phone. You will see a page like this one, identified as “Home.” To…
Kindle How-To
What’s wrong with Clean Reader? Maybe nothing…
by Will DeLamater
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
by Will DeLamater
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…
How much storage space is available on my Kindle Fire?
by Will DeLamater
On a media device like the Kindle Fire, storage matters. With movies running roughly 500MB and audiobooks 200MB, that storage can disappear rapidly. Ebooks are actually smaller in file size than other media, so if all you want to do is read, you will be fine with a device with the minimum storage. You can…
What is Kindle MatchBook and Why Should You Care?
by Will DeLamater
Are you one of those individuals who likes to read across different media, i.e. do you want to read the same book in print and on a digital device? If so, the world of booksellers is ready to serve your needs. If you have a Kindle reader or software and an Amazon account, finding out…
Manage Automatic Book Updates on Your Kindle Devices
by Will DeLamater
How to manage automatic updates to Kindle books? Amazon’s policy is to notify you by email if there is a major update to any book you bought from them. Minor changes can be made via the Manage my Content and Devices page. On that page, click on Settings and scroll down to view Automatic Updates,…
Which Kindle or Kindle Fire do I have?
by Will DeLamater
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
by Will DeLamater
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…
The 21st Century Principal: Using Your Kindle Tablet App and Chrome ‘Send to Kindle’ Extension to Read Web Articles
by Will DeLamater
More and more, reading with Kindle doesn’t require that you actually OWN a Kindle. Of any type. In fact, I spend most of my time these days on my iPad Mini, but I like to use the Kindle app and the Amazon ecosystem to collect articles, buy books, and review my documents. Here is a…
Beware Automatic Book Updates on Kindle
by Will DeLamater
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…