No Kindle Required - The Complete "Kindle for iPhone" User's Guide/Unlock the "Lightning Web Navigator for iPhone & iPod Touch" (DRM-Free with Text-to-Speech Enabled, User-Friendly) [Kindle Edition]

Stephen Windwalker (Author)

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Product Description

More than just a guide and introduction to the new, free, must-have Kindle for iPhone App, "No Kindle Required" also provides all that you need to unlock a dazzling new "service in a book," the "Lightning Web Navigator for iPhone & iPod Touch." For everything you will ever want to do with your Kindle for iPhone App, and some things you haven't even thought of yet, bestselling Kindle guide author Stephen Windwalker walks you through each step in the clearest, most concise, easy to follow language.

You'll be pleased to see how easy it is to read Kindle books on your iPhone or iPod Touch, and amazed at how the "Lightning Web Navigator for iPhone & iPod Touch," included here in the low 99-cent price, allows you to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a seamless, direct, no-extra-steps web-browsing computer.


Includes: The Convergence of Convergence Devices - Why Kindle for iPhone is a Must-Have App For iPhone and iPod Touch Users - Getting Started with the Kindle for iPhone App - Making Your Kindle Books Available on Your iPhone or iPod Touch from the Manage Your Kindle Page - Deleting Books from Your Kindle for iPhone App - Sampling and Buying Content from the Kindle Store with Your iPhone or iPod Touch - Reading with Kindle for iPhone - Shopping Other Amazon Departments from Kindle for iPhone With Our "Lightning Web Navigator For iPhone and iPod Touch" - Unlocking "Lightning Web Navigator For iPhone and iPod Touch" - Index To "Lightning Web Navigator For iPhone And iPod Touch" Links And Bookmarks - Free Book Sites - Kindle Store Bestseller Links - Amazon Store Bestseller Links - Best Blogs - Blog Lists - Book Catalogs - Book Reviews - Business & Finance - Comics - eBook Downloads, Support & Discussions - Entertainment - Hobbies - Kindle Blogs - Kindle Gear - Local Favorites - Magazines - Mail & Message - Mobile RSS Readers - Mobile Transcoders - Mobile Site Lists - News: National - News: Sports - News: Technical - Reference - Shipping Carriers - Shopping - Travel - Weather - Glossary


Plus Free Excerpts from The Complete Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle 2: A Sleek New Hardware Package - From an Ugly Duckling to a Swan - No SD Card Slot, but Seven Times the Storage Capacity of the Kindle 1 - The Crisper, Faster Kindle 2 Display - Enhanced Design and Placement of Buttons, Switches, Bars and Keyboard - A 5-Way Joystick Controller for Better On-screen Navigation - Dual Rear-Mounted Stereo - Speakers for Improved Hands-Free Listening - Addition by Subtraction: Designer Covers for the Kindle 2 - The New Kindle Battery and Charging Options - What's Inside the Kindle 2 - An Enhanced, More User-Free Kindle Reading Environment - Let Your Kindle Read to You with a New "Read-to-Me" Feature - Hands-Free Reading Options - Improved Periodical Navigation - Improved Reading and Web Navigation with the Joystick and the Back Button - Zoom in to Enlarge Graphics, Tables and Pictures - Instant On-Screen Dictionary Lookup - WhisperSync Feature Allows Instant Synchronization of Catalog and Reading Place Across Kindles and Other Devices - Slightly Improved Content Management and Sorting - Opening, Deleting, and Restoring Kindle Content - An Electronic Paper, e-Ink Display Screen, Purpose-Built for Long-Form Reading and Easier Navigation - The Best Features of the Original Kindle, Improved - Whispernet Wireless Connectivity: The Kindle's Connection to Millions of Books - Instant Access to a Growing Amazon Catalog - Greatly Improved Free Wireless Web Access - Emailing Content to Your Kindle Address - Traveling with Your Kindle - Using the Kindle to Translate Foreign or Technical Words and Phrases - Making the Most of Your Kindle Connections Overseas - Using the Kindle as a Travel Guide - The Kindle and GPS - Checking Sprint Wireless Coverage for the Kindle 2 - Downloading Kindle Editions via USB Cable - Using Gift Cards, Gift Certificates, and Promotional Certificates to Give or Purchase Kindle Content

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 254 KB
• Print Length: 62 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Harvard Perspectives Press; DRM-Free with Text-to-Speech Enabled edition (April 10, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001V5J9S2
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

More About the Author

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 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 that we have been proud to published, and now some stunning successes with the Kindle publishing platform. I have three wonderful children, and along the way I've been an author, a community organizer, a bookseller, a publishing executive, a marathoner, an elected official, and some other things unsuitable for mention here.

Customer Reviews

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Good, the Unnecessary, and the Unknown, March 29, 2009

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John M. Ford "johnDC" (near DC, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Kindle Required - The Complete "Kindle for iPhone" User's Guide/Unlock the "Lightning Web Navigator for iPhone & iPod Touch" (DRM-Free with Text-to-Speech Enabled, User-Friendly) (Kindle Edition)

This book has three main topics. If any one of them helps you, it's worth the price.

The author has assembled the best set of web links for e-books I have ever encountered. First, there is a set of links into different parts of the Amazon Kindle store that makes searching and shopping easy. Jumping back and forth between this book and the iPhone's Safari browser sounds clunky, but is easier that doing the same searches using the browser alone. And the links to free e-book web sites--most of which have nothing to do with the Kindle, by the way--are numerous and usefully organized. Both of these sets of links will save you time and money.

The main topic of the book--how to use the iPhone Kindle app--was reasonably well-written, complete, and seemed error-free. It also seemed unnecessary. I read Windwalker's book about a week after downloading the Kindle app. Everything I read I had already figured out either from the app's help file or just by using it. If you are able to purchase, download, and begin reading this book, you don't really need it. Not for this section, anyway.

The book's last section contains generous excerpts from the author's book on the Kindle 2. I don't have one and don't anticipate getting one, so I only skimmed this material. No comments, good or bad.

Overall, I recommend buying this book if you plan to read books on your iPhone--or even if you don't, but want a good set of links to free e-books. It's well worth a buck. And your time.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This ebook actually makes my iPhone work better!, March 11, 2009

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Rena D "Rena D" (The Boros, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Kindle Required - The Complete "Kindle for iPhone" User's Guide/Unlock the "Lightning Web Navigator for iPhone & iPod Touch" (DRM-Free with Text-to-Speech Enabled, User-Friendly) (Kindle Edition)

This is so awesome! I set up the Kindle for iPhone App, downloaded this book, and now I can go directly to hundreds of websites without trying to type in the address with my thumbs. Ya gotta love it! Oh, yeah, the book also tells me everything I want to know about how to use the App.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Big Disappointment, February 17, 2010

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William R. Wharton (Perrysburg, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Kindle Required - The Complete "Kindle for iPhone" User's Guide/Unlock the "Lightning Web Navigator for iPhone & iPod Touch" (DRM-Free with Text-to-Speech Enabled, User-Friendly) (Kindle Edition)

I'm glad this was only a 99-cent purchase. The description sounded like there were all kinds of features in the Kindle for iPhone app that were going to be revealed, but that was simply not the case! Granted, there are lots of weblinks to other sites that are reasonably well-organized, but anyone with any ability to navigate the web could come up with these links and not have to scroll through pages and pages of links, trying to find the right one. And if I have an iPhone, then why do I need all the pages on the Kindle? I don't have a Kindle; that's why I bought this "book". I'm sorry, but I found this a waste of money. Glad it wasn't much.