This concise Kindle manual provides step-by-step instructions on how to do everything with your Kindle FASTER. You will also unlock hidden secrets of your Kindle such as how to download free eBooks, send an email from your Kindle, play preinstalled games or read news for free. Updated on December 1st, 2009.

This eBook includes:
- Keyboard shortcuts for Kindle DX, Kindle 2, and Kindle 1
- How to use Kindle for iPhone & iPod Touch App
- List of Kindle-friendly websites that saves you time typing in long URL addresses
- How to email from Kindle
- How to download thousands of free eBooks
- How to convert your documents to Kindle format
- How to convert PDF Files
- Kindle hidden features such as the Minesweeper, GoMoku (Five in a Row), and the Image Viewer
- How to search the internal dictionary, Wikipedia, and the Internet
- How to use Kindle Web Browser
- Shortcuts to adding bookmarks, clippings and notes
- Shortcuts to viewing periodicals
- Shortcuts to Kindle audio player
- How to buy books
- How to expand an image
- How to use text-to-speech Kindle feature
- How to make a screen shot on Kindle and on iPhone
- How to choose the default dictionary
- How to use Kindle as a calculator
- How to Display the Time
- How to Display Free Memory
- How to Display Wireless Network
- Live Kindle support telephone numbers

Selected Kindle 2 and Kindle DX Shortcuts:

Home Page

• If your home page is sorted alphabetically by either Title or Author, enter Letter Keys (a, b, c, ...) and press the 5-was controller to jump to the page containing the first book starting with that letter,"The", "A", "An" are ignored.
• Alt+Shift+M: Minesweeper game.
• To Display the Time and Free Memory, Press the MENU button.

Viewing Books or Periodicals

• To display an image in full screen mode: Point the 5-way controller to the image, the magnifying glass will be displayed in the center of the image. Press the controller to view the image in full screen mode. Press the controller again to switch to normal mode.
• Alt+B: bookmark the current page, unbookmark the current page. You can view all bookmarks by pressing MENU My Notes & Marks.
• Alt+Aa: to change text size, text-to-speech speech rate, text-to-speech speaking voice (male or female).
• Shift+SYM: start/stop text-to-speech.
• Alt+Shift+1 to 9: changes the spacing between lines (the default is 3).

Search Commands

• Type in a word from any screen. A search box will pop up automatically. Move the 5-way controller to the right twice and select the search location.
• To limit search to a single book, open the book and enter your search term.
• To search all books on your Kindle, click the HOME button, enter your search term.
• To search Wikipedia from any screen, enter the term and move the 5-way controller right to select Wikipedia.
• To search the internet from any screen, enter the term and move the 5-way controller right to select Google.

Text-to-speech

• Shift+SYM: start/stop text-to-speech.
• During text-to-speech: press Spacebar to pause/resume text-to-speech.