SOME KINDLE AND KINDLE FIRE HELPERSThe 7 Dragons group has created probably the most popular tools and utilities for the Kindle Keyboard series (Kindle 2, Kindle 3, Kindle DX, and now Kindle 4 Basic-no Touch-no physical Keyboard):
Notepad, Calendar, Calculator, and Converter
At least some of these are being converted for Kindle Touch, and I'll be watching for those.
In the meantime, they have released a Kindle Fire app:
Alarm Clock, Calendar, ToDo List - Productivity Helper. A sort of "Productivity Swiss knife"...
As with other apps for now, it's available only to U.S. customers.
NOTE: This is for Kindle Fire only and NOT for other 7" tablets, despite Amazon's "Compatability" wording in the Buy box. This set was tested and optimized ONLY for the quite wide-screen Kindle Fire, and A. Singh of 7 Dragons wrote the first comment to request that people not buy this if you have another 7" tablet.
It was just released and there are already a few very positive reviews with one reviewer wishing only for Google sync for calendars
The Product Description includes details such as the inclusion of Backup and Restore functionality and built-in, detailed Help. The alarm clock works even when you're in another app and includes a Musical Alarm that allows the setting of a song as your alarm. The ToDo List handles priorities, and you can choose one of the provided backgrounds or use one of your own images.
There's also a stopwatch and a live Antique Clock with a second hand.
Cost: $1.00
A Kindle book for those wondering how to work this Kindle Fire thing
Love Your Kindle Fire: The ILMK Guide to Amazon's Entertablet, by Bufo Calvin is the author of 5 other Kindle books and is very popular in the Amazon Kindle forums for his clarity and good humor in answers to questions there, which he does on his own time. He also has a best-selling Kindle-Edition blog, "I Love My Kindle."
Calvin goes through each menu option, step by step, explaining what each does. A lot of the book is in conversational Question and Answer format, in which he interviews himself with the types of questions he has seen most, from the Kindle forums and at his blog, but most important, with some very thorough answers.
The writing style may be best suited to those new to the Android scene.
The author has updated the book since it was first published and it now includes what he's found after a month with the Kindle Fire, his Android App recommendations, and some details about the recent v6.2.1 software update.
The Kindle Chronicles Podcast
The Kindle Chronicles is the very popular Friday Podcast by Len Edgerly for listeners who'd like to know "All About the Kindle." It includes both audio and text sections on News, Tech Tips, a Weekly Interview, and Comments received from the Kindle community during the previous week. Quick, sharp, and enthusiastically curious about much more than things Kindle, Len is also a relaxed, engaging interviewer. Catch his very interesting blog
I did a report on his poetry book on Kindle and Bufo Calvin's earlier books in the July 2, 2009 blog article.
He has a large Twitter following at http://twitter.com/LenEdgerly. Len's Kindle Chronicles, begun July 2008, is practically a log or history of the Kindle and its impact on readers and the publication world in the short time since its release.
Stephen Windwalker's Complete Kindle Books series
The Complete 2012 User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle: Covers All Current Kindles including the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, and Kindle, by Stephen Windwalker who has been explaining what can be done on Kindles since the beginning of Kindle time, and as you can tell from the title, he provides information on all the current Kindles. A prolific writer, he has a large following on Facebook and for his Kindle Nation blog. $1.49Mobi Manuals Guide (Mobile Reference)
Kindle Fire Survival Guide: Step-by-step User Guide for Kindle Fire: Getting Started, Downloading FREE eBooks, Buying Apps, Watching Movies, and Surfing the Web, by Toly K.This is quite a detailed book, at a decent price (I bought all three books), though it has a couple of errors noted, and some customer review statements and ratings are quite odd.
A "For Dummies" book
Kindle Fire for Dummies, by Nancy C. Muir.Expensive at $9.68 but it has 12 customer reviews and an average 4.4 stars.
This one I haven't bought, but I felt it should be included.
And for something completely different, and free for maybe one more day (I'm not sure how long it's free.)
Our Dog Lucca: A funny, short, picture scrapbook, by Moe Zilla, probably better known as Jon Cog, the writer behind Beyond Black Friday (which was formerly known as the "Me and my Kindle" blog). The book, recently released and his first, is a look at the life of his dog, written in rhyme for children, with photographs, and has shot up to #2 in the Kindle Store's genre Kindle subcategory of "Children's eBooks-) Animals-) Dogs and Nonfiction -) Children's Nonfiction -) Animals."It's a Kindle blog to put on your Visit list. His tribute to a young Kindle blogger who died suddenly was not the usual Kindle blog read.
Kindle Touch 3G Kindle Touch WiFi Kindle Basic (UK: KBasic) Kindle Fire
Kindle Keybd 3G (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G) K3 Special Offers K3-3G Special Offers DX
Check often: Temporarily-free recently published ones
Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources. Top 100 free bestsellers. Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published free books, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.
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