The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle (First Generation) - Softcover

Stephen Windwalker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971577870 ISBN 13: 9780971577879

Publisher: Harvard Perspectives Press, 2008

Synopsis

Stephen Windwalker's latest book is the premier Kindle 1 user's guide, packed with all the information you need to make a decision about whether to buy a Kindle and to get the most out of your Kindle when it arrives. Now approaching 30,000 copies sold, this book came out of nowhere to climb to the top of the Amazon Sales Rankings. 50,000 words, 160 "print" pages, and written in a clear, easy-to-understand format aimed at the serious readers who comprise the largest group of Kindle owners. See the complete table of contents at KindleUsers.blogspot.com.

About this title

About the Author

Keep up with Stephen Windwalker at his AmazonConnect page -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3OTNCU58DS95B/ebest -- He reports: I cut my teeth as a writer covering the Cape Cod Baseball League and other sports for what was then called the Cape Cod Standard-Times, and later for the Boston Globe, studied the craft of writing with Robert Lowell, Kurt Vonnegut, Monroe Engel and Carter Wilson, and served as Fiction Editor of the Harvard Advocate. In 1999 I founded a small independent publishing company called Harvard Perspectives Press (named after two of my favorite institutions from my undergraduate years, the Harvard House of Pizza and the Harvard Wine Company), and it has done astonishingly well, with a couple of niche bestsellers, other work by Robert Gardner and Alicia Wentworth that we have been proud to publish, and now some stunning successes with the Kindle publishing platform. I'm proud to be a member of the Boston chapter of the National Writers Union and the Independent Book Publishers Association. I've had a very rich life, and may be approaching the halfway point by now. Along the way I've been an author, a community organizer, a bookseller, a publishing executive, a marathoner, a schoolteacher and coach, a fruit picker, an elected official, and some other things unsuitable for mention here. My passions are writing, publishing, reading, music, film, progressive politics, the Celtics and the Red Sox, and ... certainly not least ... my three children and my grandson ... favorite authors such as Richard Ford, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sue Miller, James Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence ... music by Clapton, Dire Straits, Shawn Colvin, and B.B. King ... movies I can watch again and again like the Milo O'Shea version of Ulysses and Newman in The Verdict or The Long, Hot Summer ... but that's just a start. See hppress.blogspot.com for more information on current and forthcoming titles, and check my Shelfari page under Stephen Windwalker, my pen name.

Review

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 100% Worthwhile Investment, April 29, 2008 By K. Blaeser skipblazer (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Like many new Kindle users, I bought this cool tricks Kindle book on my first buying spree about 2 months ago. I reserved judgment on how useful it would be until now, giving myself a chance to both read the material and receive the very helpful free emails that the author offers as a bonus, if you choose to send him your email address. The very first tip that came through that I used, a tip on a free download, in one click repaid the cost of the initial cool tricks book. High energy author who is motivated to find a position in this new market, and why not? Someone's got to save time for the rest of us, and I appreciate it. --Amazon Customer Reviews

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 100% Worthwhile Investment, April 29, 2008 By K. Blaeser skipblazer (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Like many new Kindle users, I bought this cool tricks Kindle book on my first buying spree about 2 months ago. I reserved judgment on how useful it would be until now, giving myself a chance to both read the material and receive the very helpful free emails that the author offers as a bonus, if you choose to send him your email address. The very first tip that came through that I used, a tip on a free download, in one click repaid the cost of the initial cool tricks book. High energy author who is motivated to find a position in this new market, and why not? Someone's got to save time for the rest of us, and I appreciate it. --Amazon Customer Reviews ... 9 of 12 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars

INSPIRING AND MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT ELSE THERE IS INSIDE THIS DEVICE..., May 3, 2008 By M. Burgos

Expert Kindle graphics artist (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very interesting read. Ebooks like this should be encouraged. There's clearly more to the Kindle than meets the eye! --Amazon Customer Reviews .... With over 30,000 copies sold, The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle has helped thousands of current and prospective Kindle owners get the most out of their Kindles or conduct the due diligence necessary to decide if the device makes sense for them. Here are just a few of the dozens of five-star reviews that this book has received since it was first published in beta form under the title How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email and Other Cool Tricks in December 2007:

Stephen Windwalker has done it again. --Manuel Burgos, author of Graphics on the Kindle

77 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

Great info for Kindle readers, many thanks!, March 26, 2008 By P.E. (TN, USA)

Informative and expanding, much information that an avid reader-turned-Kindle-reader might otherwise miss. Available elsewhere? Definitely, and those with an urge to tinker will find it. But if your focus is on the books and you are the sort who looks for answers in the user manual, then articles such as this are invaluable. This is the first review I have ever submitted to Amazon. Must admit that the electronic shouting matches that many of these review lists become puts me off. But the potential for a real paradigm shift in how we use, and value, cyber access exists here and the window won't likely stay open long. The more folks learn about the possibilities, the greater the push. Stephen Windwalker appears to be writing for the typical Kindle buyer who wants an electronic reader for the convenience of having a lot of books in a small, transportable package. --Amazon Customer Reviews

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 100% Worthwhile Investment, April 29, 2008 By K. Blaeser skipblazer (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Like many new Kindle users, I bought this cool tricks Kindle book on my first buying spree about 2 months ago. I reserved judgment on how useful it would be until now, giving myself a chance to both read the material and receive the very helpful free emails that the author offers as a bonus, if you choose to send him your email address. The very first tip that came through that I used, a tip on a free download, in one click repaid the cost of the initial cool tricks book. High energy author who is motivated to find a position in this new market, and why not? Someone's got to save time for the rest of us, and I appreciate it. --Amazon Customer Reviews

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars

INSPIRING AND MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT ELSE THERE IS INSIDE THIS DEVICE..., May 3, 2008 By M. Burgos

Expert Kindle graphics artist (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very interesting read. Ebooks like this should be encouraged. There's clearly more to the Kindle than meets the eye! --Amazon Customer Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Perspectives Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0971577870
• ISBN 13: 9780971577879
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160