A Kindle World blog

Books:
 Current Kindle Daily Deal
    (Changes at midnight~)
 Monthly Kindle Deals - Dec.
  100 selected bks $1.99-$3.99

Prime-Borrowable Kindle bks

Amazon general deals:
Select-Outlet Deals, U.S.
Goldbox & Lightning Deals, U.S.

January Deals, U.K.
Stock Clearance U.K.

Temporarily-free books -
Non-classics - USA: by
Dec 2011  Jan 2012 (NEW)
   Publication Date   Bestselling
   High-ratings
Amazon's LtdTime Free Promos
UK: PubDate   Popular (re-done)

Guide to Free Kindle books

Non-Classics under $1:
Highly rated, under $1
Mostly 99c Kindle Books page
  + 99c Notepad 1.1 for Kindle
  + Cloud bonus-storage tip

Kindle Fire Tablet +
  3 new eInk Kindles (US)

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Kindle Fire - $199
  Amazon's new full-color
  Cloud-accelerated tablet.
Kindle 4 NoTouch ("Kindle")
- $79 w/spec'l offers, $109 w/o.
  NOT touch, or keybd, or audio
Kindle 4 Touch, WiFi, Audio
- $99 w/spec'l offers, $139 w/o.
Kindle 4 Touch, 3G/WiFi, Audio
- $149 w/ spec'l offers, $189 w/o.
  Touchscreen, 3G, Wifi, audio

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UK: Kindle 4 NoTouch
- £89 ("Kindle Basic")
Kindle Keyboard 3G, UK - £149
Kindle Keyboard WiFi,UK - £109

Most Popular Free K-Books
U.S. & Int'l (NOT UK):
   Top 100 free
UK-Only:
   Top 100 free
Also,
Top 100 free Android apps
Top 100 free mp3 albums
Top 100 free mp3 songs
The Free Books Guide

General
. Prime's Lending Library:
    Rules; Borrowing;
    How to Browse List
. Set of Kindleworld articles
    on new Kindles
. Prime gets current PBS
. 3G or WiFi? Which one?
. Sharing a Kindle account
. Personal docs: Imprvmts
. Convert ePub to Kindle
. Edgerly on Kindle Event
. Intro Day, 9/28
Kindle Fire
. How to use Amazon's
    SendToKindle for PC
. Add shared storage:KFire
. TINY fonts on browser
. Cases 2 + GOOD mini spkr
. Images: KFire & KTouch
. Tips: KFire and KTouch
    Info for new Kindlers
. Cases/cvrs #1
. KFire rooted (Not needed)
. Non-Amzn apps: Sideload'g
. Kindle Fire 1st reviews
. Nook Tablet vs Kindle Fire
. Amazon Q&A: Kindlefire
. Video demo: Kindle Fire
. Kindle Fire/Cloud facts
. Kindle Fire "on fire"
. More info on Kindle Fire
. Software update v6.2.2
. Software update v6.2.1
. Software update v6.2
. Software update v6.1
   Kindle Fire
Kindle Touch
. How to use Amazon's
    SendToKindle for PC
. TINY fonts on web-browser
. Sleeve +exc. mini-spkr
. Images: KFire & KTouch
. Tips: KTouch and KFire
. Notes re Kindle Touch
. What is X-ray?
. Kindle Team re Kindle Touch
   3G web browsing
. KTouch 3G-Web'g or not?
. Notes: KTouch's 3G web'g
. Software update v5.0.3
Kindle Basic
   (NoTouch/NoKeybd)
. Video demo: $79 Kindle
   Kindle Basic (NoTouch)
. User's Guide: $79 Kindle Basic . Software update v4.0.1

US: Goldbox + Lightning Deals
  Gifts in Tools
  Outlet Deals: Home, TVs,
  kitchen, baby, clothes,
  auto, games, sports, tools
  Digital Amazon deals

100 MP3 albums @ $5 ea.

  Amazon's Android Appstore

UK: Deals of the Week

Free trial:   U.S.,  U.K. - Each has the last 25 articles.  5 days/wk

Free WebLinks file - info
Latest mobiweb.azw 1/25/11

Internationally, except UK:
Kindle-3 3G/WiFi - $189
Kindle-3 WiFi Only - $139

Kindles w/ Special Offers/ads:
  WiFi Only: $114   3G+WiFi, $139

30-day in-home trial with
full refund if uninterested

Most popular customer
review of the Kindle

UK Only:
Kindle-3 3G/WiFi-UK - £149
Kindle-3 WiFi Only-UK - £109
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REFURBISHED units sometimes available. Pricing varies.
FREE 2-day shipping in continental U.S. (7/12/10) U.S. models (Sprint)
  DX, K2, K1
Int'l models (AT&T)
  DX, K2, K3

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New NOOK Touch & Kindle -
  Features comparison,
    largely unknown info.
  Nook Touch & Kindle3:
    Screen Contrast posted +
  Half-hour video on both +
    Consumer Rpts rankings

Kindle 3:
. Unsung features
    + more-succinct version

. 3G or WiFi? Which one?
    What does each do?
    + review of cvr w/light

. Using 3G Kindle when
    my Comcast went down

. Doing more on the Kindle
    Starting with:
    Amazon's Top10Faqs

. Your Annotations webpage

. K3 Tips & Cautions
. More K3 (some K2) Tips

. White K3 alongside K2
    + NY Times examples

. Wired's Gadget Lab article
    showing larger K3/K2 pics

. K3/K2 under microscope
    + more comparison photos

. Making Collections: A Guide

. Collections: Cautions

. Typing numbers: 2 ways

. Kindle freeze or problems
    restarting it?  Some Help.
    BUT, maybe it's the cover.

. Main features of
    the two Kindle 3's

. Top-rated customer review

. How to use Public Notes

. K3 text vs DX Graphite's
    Modify K3 text to match
      DXG's text.
    White K3 w/ Graphite Dx

. Excellent VIDEO of K3

. First impressions from US
    K3 owners + a clear video

. Getting K3 update v3.0.2
. Getting K3 update v3.0.3
. Getting K3 v3.1 preview
. Getting K3 v3.1 final update
. Getting K3 v3.3 update

. Getting K4 update v4.0.1

Other Keyboard Kindle:
. Kindle models and #'s:
    How do they differ?

. Graphite DX vs older DX
. Graphite DX: Day 1 reports
. Reactions to DXG by tough
   Mobileread Forum folks

Free WebLinks file - info
Latest mobiweb.azw 1/25/11

Your Annotations webpage

Other:
. Why a Kindle at all?
. "Is it worth $260 $189?"
   Kindle users respond
   in the forums.

. Software v2.5.x-3.1.x
    Features: How to use
    Facebook/Twitter:
      Fwd a passage
    PersDocs/Subscrip'ns
    Collections:
      HOW to use Collections
      Important cautions
    How to Pan & Zoom
    How to use Public Notes
    Full-web non-USA
    Which v2.5 version?

. Q&A from Comments area

. Consumer Reports' Ratings
   of E-readers, Nov 2010
. Consumer Reports video
   on Sony, Nook, Kindle
. ABC7/Consumer Reports
    looks at 9 e-readers
. "Best E-Readers" compared
   August 2010
. Unusual features for
   an ereader
. WiFi? Cellular 3G Wireless?
   How e-readers differ
. Creative uses of Kindle
   by Amzn Forum members
. Kindle is the real miracle.
. Google driving directions
. Free wordgames
. Kindle for PC
   and Kindle for Mac
    Share on pc or Mac
   Free s/w for Kindle-books
. Accessing free Wikipedia
   w/Kindle2 faster
. Kindle 6" or DX?
   Updated 5/28/10
   Ask these questions.

. Identify your Kindle model
. Photos of Kindle2. K3, & DX
   using the web browser
. Anne Rice on the Kindle.
. Mobile-optimized web sites
   Free Kindle 'book' of links
. Go to webpages from
   Kindle Home screen
. Google directions on Kindle
. Myths re Kindle wireless
. Tags - folder workaround
. Kindle: Basic organization
   pre-set folders & sorting
. BEST report on how the
   Kindle functions
. Sharing a Kindle account
. Using the hinged cover
. A million free Google
   books, for Kindle too.
. NOOKColor Reviews:
   Several from Nov. 2010
. Myths and Clarifications
. Using the Kindle Overseas
. Guides, Tips, Tutorials
   section below also.)
. Black flash on page turns
. Assistive Technology:
    PageBot for Kindle

The 9.7" Kindle DX Global  30-day in-home trial, with full refund if uninterested

Factory-refurbished & warrantied DX's, K2's, & K1's available, w/ return policy

. Graphite DX vs older DX
. Graphite DX: Day 1 reports
. Reactions to DXG by tough
   Mobileread Forum folks
. Added benefits
. A guided tour
. DX or Kindle 6"?
   Ask these questions.
. DX vs Kindle 2 hands-on
. My DX-display photos
. A million free Google books,
   for Kindle too.
. SHEET MUSIC on the DX
. How to use the
  24/7 web browser
. Myths re Kindle wireless
. Using my K2 to get a DX.
. Relative size, and PDF
   handling
. Screen rotation demo
. BEST review of how the
   Kindles function
. Early customer reports
   Thorough forum thread
. 1st Impressions of the DX?
. Creative uses of Kindle
   by Amzb forum members
. Using U.S. Kindle Overseas
. How to Save
   on College Textbooks
. Coursesmart on iPhones
. Textbooks and Amazon:
   status

To Kindleworld homepage   (if on a secondary page.)

Accessory listings by Kindle 1, 2, and DX are back.
For Kindle 1,   For Kindle 6"

For Kindle DX
Big-screen DX cover - similar to the
   K2 cover
   More on DX cover

Cole Haan K2 leather case
   at 50% off.

GIFT cards for Kindle books or any other Amazon.com items,
 Gift certificates, etc.

GIFT cards - UK only, for
any Amazon-UK store items

BEAM N READ - My favorite light for the Kindle now

Mighty Bright, Kindle version has an added foam pad, inside the upper clamp, to prevent scratching the Kindle bezel.

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2-yr Kindle Extended Warranty - 2 yrs Total
(must be within 30 days of purchase)
  Kindle-3 Int'l - $49
  Kindle DX Int'l - $109
  Kindle DX (U.S.) - $109


  It covers one user-caused accident within first two years, while basic warranty covers no accidents ("May I try your Kindle?") and also covers battery replacement in the 2nd year also.

  See battery coverage.

DVDs / Blu-Ray - Specials
Electronics - bestsellers
Home Project Center
Jewelry
Kitchen
Magazines - large discounts
Mp3's
Smallparts.com: Lab Supplies
Software
Textbooks, discounted
Tools -
Watches (at Endless)

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FALL "Blowout Sale" page

Shoes at Endless
  Free shipping: Buys/Returns

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AMAZON UK Home page
  Kindlestore - UK only
  Electronics - Bestsellers
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AMAZON DE Homepage
  Kindle Shop - Deutschland
  Elektronik - Bestseller
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AMAZON Italia Homepage
  Uses U.S. Kindlestore
  Elettronica - Bestseller

Blog Home.

U.S./Int'l (except UK) ...via daily delivery of the latest 25 articles for 99c/mo., or 3 cents per day.   See more info...

UK-Only ...via daily delivery of the latest 25 articles... See See more info...

Besides new books, we can enjoy Classics for free, both from Amazon and from other book sites, many directly downloadable to the Kindle.

The ongoing Free-Books page with most of the below, in detail, with prepared searches.

1.  Amazon's 33,000+ free books
2.  Amazon's currently free
      Non-Classics - Newer first
3.  "Kindle Popular Classics
      Choose sorting method.
4.  Top 100 free bestsellers
5.  PRIME-eligible Kindle bks
6.  Project Gutenberg e-books (MOBI ed) catalog for Kindles
7.  Internet Archive: 2.5M free texts
8.  Coming: British Library's 65,000 free orig'l editions for Kindle
9.  Amazon's Free Book Collections page
10. A long Amazon Forum thread on a million or so books readable on the Kindle - How to get them (mostly free)

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NOT FREE but popular:
Highly-rated under-$1 books

Sunshine Deals: 650 popular books below $3 thru' 6/15/11

MobileReference books - complete works of authors for ~$5 and well-formatted works

Bestseller Kindle Books 2010

Best (paper) Books of the Month at 40% Off during the month.

Foreign Language Kindle Books

MISSOURI: How to help
JAPAN: Updates How help
Person Finder     Map

Here are several ways.
  Also:
    NYT on status: 7/10/10,
    10/26/10, 11/9/10

You can access your books, periodicals, or the full Web* with Amazon's light 6" Kindle (Global) and the larger Kindle DX, via wireless 24/7 with no hourly charges.

*  Customers outside the U.S. with wireless are increasingly getting free, slow access to the web and, as a basic feature, can access Wikipedia on the Net 24/7, for free, while reading the Kindle.

See the main reasons I've found the Kindle very useful.

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A popular forum topic (on Amazon) shows that Kindle users are not tied to only Amazon: A Million or so Kindle books - mostly free - how to get them.

RSS feeds
Kindlefeeder feeds your Kindle well.  No fees required except for auto-scheduled deliveries.  You can press Send at the website instead.  A Must try.  Amazon fees affect some options.

Why does Amazon charge so much for an e-reader??

Jeff Bezos' explanation.
Also, mine

Is it 'just' an e-reader? Other features.
   Note: Web-browser not enabled in most countries

Click for a larger pic of grandpa Kindle 1 webbing at a cafe.
Websites with
faster mobile access

Creative uses of the Kindle
  by Amazon forum members

A Photo Comparison of Kindle 1 and Kindle 2 screens for same material, webpages included.

"3G" Advantages over WiFi: we don't have to find a hotspot, and there are no monthly data charges for the mobile-network access available almost everywhere.

U.S. Kindles
- Sprint EVDO network
Kindle 1
Kindle 2&3 and DX (U.S.) (more powerful modems)

U.S./International Kindle
- AT&T 3G Network
International
North America

. Software v2.5.x - 3.1.x
    Features: How to use
    Full-web non-USA
    reported
    Facebook/Twitter:
      Fwd a passage
    PersDocs/Subscrip'ns
    Collections:
      HOW to use Collections
      Important cautions
    How to Pan & Zoom
    How to use Public Notes
    Good HowTo: ArsTechnica
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. Identify your Kindle model

. 3G or WiFi? Which one?
    What does each do?
    + review of cvr w/light

. Main features of
    the two Kindle 3's

. K3 Tips & Cautions
. More K3 (some K2) Tips

. K3: Typing numbers

. Q&A from Comments area

. Convert ePub to Kindle

. PDF Scissors tool

. Darker font effect
   & adjust line spacing (K2's)

. Kindle for PC
   Latest features

. Website-Bookmarks file
  (for all Kindles)

. Using the K2 web browser

. Google driving directions
   with your Kindle

. Q&A: My Clippings file

. State sales-tax info
   Big5 publisher ebooks

. Facebook with the Kindle

. Using 'tags' to find books
   via Searches

. Kindle: Basic organization
   pre-set folders
   and sorting

. Kindle's Archived Items
   folder - What is it?

. Webpage for your notes

. Using the hinged cover

. Battery-care advisories

. Copy-paste to Note

. Search book for name
   w/o typing

. Get DAY, Date, Time
   using "@"-key
   Undocumented

. Black flash on page turns

. ePub to Kindle: A million free Google books

. Project Gutenberg to your Kindle - James Adcock

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MOVING FILES TO KINDLE
. How to put documents on your Kindle - B. Tackitt

. How to move files to your Kindle, normally - Amazon

. Moving files to the Kindle w/o USB or wireless

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SENDING FILES TO KINDLE
  GENERAL
. How to send documents to your Kindle

  WORD docs
. How to send WORD docs to your Kindle
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. Print list of Kindle contents (Windows only)

. Sharing a Kindle account

. Using the U.S. Kindle overseas (mainly for non-KindleGlobal owners)

. A Word Macro to organize "My Clippings" file info.

. Save/print web-articles to DOC or PDF files for conversion to Kindle

. InstaPaper: send web articles to Kindle

. Using InstaPaper, send documents to Kindle with No size-fee.

. 16 Levels of gray vs 4

I collected a few advisories

Phones:
1-866-321-8851 (U.S.)
1-206-266-0927(outside U.S.)
0800 496 1081 (UK-only)
Contact-Amazon form:
   Call Me feature
   Contact Kindle Support page
E-mail:
 kindle-cs-support@amazon.com
Web: Support page
   for US/Int'l (non-UK)
  UK-Only Support page
  UK-Only Contact page

Kindle FAQ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) by Amazon.  All should read these.

Forum: Kindle Customer Svc Q&A

GENERAL Help - All Kindles

Often asked:
. Identify your Kindle model
. User Guides
    for Kindle. Plus PDFs.
. Manage your Kindle page
    A How-to for the page
. Manage synchronization
. Subscriptions: How?
. Kindle Organization
. Updating Kindle software
. Kindle for iPhone
. Amazon file conversion
    to Kindle - 15c & free

Feedback Email  for
  Experimental page items on Kindles 1, 2, and DX:
kindledx-feedback@amazon.com
kindle2-feedback@amazon.com
kindle-feedback@amazon.com

None currently.

APPLE
. Apple electronics
. iPads 16/32/64 WiFi
    Keyboard Dock + other
     accessories
. iPods,   iPod 8GB 3rd Gen
    Newest iPods  Sept 2010
     incldg iPod 8GB 4th Gen,
     + Apple TV

. KOBO items

NOOK-1 (NON-touch E-Ink)
NOOKColor reader
NOOKColor reader page
NOOK items   IREX readers

SONY readers

BLACKBERRYs for Kindle app
Bold 9000,  Bold 9700,  Curve 8520,  Curve 8900,  Storm 9530,  Storm 9550,  Tour 9630

My An E-Reader World
  blog (badly needs updating)

For 99 cents/mo., or 3 cents/day, the full text of this blog's latest 25 articles is delivered (w/ images) to your Kindle whenever there's a new entry or updated information.  Each Kindle delivery replaces the previous one.   No clutter.

U.S./International (except UK) Edition: Click here for a 14-day free trial.  It's easier to navigate than usual feeds, and you can search it for info in the latest 25 articles.

UK-Only Kindle Edition: Offered Aug 2010, this is also a 14-day free trial.
 You can search this edition also for info in the latest 25 articles that comprise the daily blog.

While here, try the searchbox at top right if looking for something specific.

Some wonder what this or that Kindle thing is. This will be a section for them.

. Who/What are on the Amazon screensavers?
   Bruce Woodcock's List

. More web-bookmarks for the Kindle: Try these

Here are a couple of demos and some background on "Tom."

AMAZON'S OWN FORUMS:
. Kindle Community (alt)
. Kindle Accessories (alt)
. Kindle Cust.Svc Q&A (alt)
. K-Book Forum (alt)
. Mystery (Print & Kindle)

NON-AMAZON FORUMS:
. Kindle Social Network (BookSummit) - many writers, friendly, good profile areas.  Run by abhi !
. Kindleboards - very active, friendly, informative
. MobileRead - technically inclined folks, informative

UK FORUMS (Welcome!)
. The allKindle Forum

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The Kindle Chronicles - the Friday Podcast All About the Kindle, by Len Edgerly, with news and interviews each week.
  A very popular podcast. Hear all previous shows.

Kindle Zen - an e-book-industry monitor keeping a watchful eye on trends, with excellent analysis.
  Follow their news alerts on Twitter.

. KINDLE 1 - The Amazon Kindle FAQ - Leslie Nicoll et al
. KINDLE 1 - The Kindle Cookbook, for Kindle 1
- David Emberson

. KINDLE 2 - The Kindle Cookbook, for Kindle 2
- David Emberson
. KINDLE 2 - The Complete User's Guide...
- Stephen Windwalker
. KINDLE 3+ - The Kindle Free for All...
- Stephen Windwalker

. KINDLE DX - The Kindle DX Cookbook
- David Emberson

. ALL KINDLES - Frequently Asked Kindle Questions
- Bufo Calfin   See my report.

. ALL KINDLES - Free: How to get millions of... with your... Kindle
- Stephen Windwalker

Kindle Culture by Stephen Peters, whose Kindle Culture blog cartoons and ruminations just delight me.  His upbeat perspective, wry observations, and interest in people are all found in this book.

A Poet's Progress... by Len Edgerly.  See my report.

Columbine by Dave Cullen.  "Enjoy" is probably the wrong word here; the book is riveting, to understate it, and an eye-opener, though it's led me to read more about this elsewhere too. I feel as if I've met the people involved. It's hard to put down (but I finally finished it). Reading too many books simultaneously and chaotically to keep this box info up to date.

My Other Sites

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. A Photo Comparison of
   Kindle 1 and Kindle 2
   screens
. VIDEO Face-off. How
   e-readers handle features.
      - A must-see.
. The 24/7 K2 web browser
   How to use it (free)
. Using my K2 to get a DX.
   using the free 3G wireless

. APPLE IPAD1:
  . iPad pricing analysis
  . iPad and Kindle
      articles here
  . iPad NoLimit 3G killed but
      OK if iPad paid by 6/7
. IREX:
  . Review: WSJ/Mossberg
. KOBO:
  . What it does for $149
  . Follow-up comparisons
  . Laptop Mag review
     "Verdict" page
. NOOK/KINDLE (E-Ink):
  . VIDEO face-off. How
     each handles features
  . Nook vs Kindle reviews
  . Nook-Kindle Comparisons
     Corrects some bad info.
  . My B&N visit with Nook
. SONY/KINDLE:
  . Sony PRS-650 review CRN
  . Sony vs Kindle reviews
    w/detailed Gizmodo one.
  . Sony PRS-300, PRS-600
    and Daily Edition
  . New Sony Readers -
    reports
  . S-700BC vs K2/DX
  . S-700BC vs K2
  . Sony screens + Kindle
  . Sony 505 seen w/K2
Using the K2web browser - no monthly charges
   (where enabled).
. NON-KINDLE E-READERS:
    GoTo Non-Kindle pages
    (RIGHT-hand info-column)
. See a Kindle in your city
    - an Amazon feature

. Travel photos (Main page)
    Italy,  Machu Picchu,
    Turkey,   Egypt/Jordan
    (includes Petra)
. Peru PhotoDiary or blog
. Andrys Tripping the World
. An E-Reader World
. Some slow-piano music
. Work history