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Love Your Kindle Fire: The ILMK Guide to Amazon's Entertablet
 
 

Love Your Kindle Fire: The ILMK Guide to Amazon's Entertablet [Kindle Edition]

Bufo Calvin
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Book Description

November 20, 2011
This unique book will get you loving your new Kindle Fire quickly!

Bufo Calvin, author of the bestselling I Love My Kindle blog, takes you through all the options with a thorough hands-on.

The book has a series of what the author calls "splinterviews", where Bufo interviews Bufo on each of the main functions of the Fire, from movies to web browsing to apps to e-books.

For those looking for the official information, an appendix gathers links to Amazon's Kindle Fire resources in one spot.

Among the discoveries you may make:

* How to set a password for your Kindle Fire

* How to remove websites from your Carousel

* How to use the Pulse app to get free blogs on your Kindle Fire

* How to change your notification sound

Newly added:

* Apps Reviews (including ones that greatly enhance the value of your Kindle Fire...providing parental controls and transferring files between your Fire and your computer wirelessly)

* Testing other sources for video besides Amazon

* What you lose when you deregister and reregister your Kindle Fire (it's not like the other Kindles)

Updated with information about the new 6.2.1 update! That includes how to remove items from the Carousel and how to put them back, and password protecting internet access.

Updated with information about the 6.2.2 update (adding full screen on webpages and the ability to set Flash to be "on demand). We've also added a handy troubleshooting section, addressing some of the most common situations. Latest app reviews include Splashtop which displays content from a computer on your Kindle Fire and lets you interact with it.

Now with information for version 6.3: this significant update changes some menus, redoes the keyboard, makes finding your personal documents easier, adds a reading mode for some websites, and enables you to chat with other readers (and maybe the author) while in a book.

A new "how-to" section gives step by step instructions for popular activities, including listening to text-to-speech with your Kindle Fire (although not with Kindle store books), using the Overdrive app to get e-books from your public library, and downloading movies to watch on an airplane.



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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This little book isn't very long, but it takes you through every setting on the Kindle Fire and explains things clearly. It is written in a non-threatening, folksy style. It is not a technical manual by any means. It is more of a "hold you by the hand" and tell you what every menu option means and what it does. I can see that this would be very helpful and reassuring to people who may be intimidated by the new technology of the Fire. Nicely done, Bufo!
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
For the non-Droids among us November 24, 2011
By Dictum
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you are an experienced Droid user, or even an experienced techie, this handbook may provide more explanation than you need. I'm not a techie,* and found this much more useful than the Fire's manual (although, to Amazon's credit, it has some additional help on the Fire buried in various "use" sections, assuming you can locate them).

This guidebook contains descriptions of tablet basics. It also includes specific controls on the Fire, what the options are, and how to access them.

It also includes descriptions of various content categories for the Fire, including applications (or "apps") and the internet. The pointer to the Pulse app, preinstalled on the Fire, was worth the price of the book for me.

Is there more to be said on the operation of the Fire? Sure. I've still got questions myself. But this will get you started with some confidence.

* By way of context, I had to locate and download my iPod Touch's user manual before I could figure out that one needed to press the circular thing to make the device do something. I did manage to figure out the Fire's "on" sequence more quickly!

Update: the author indicates that he has updated the new version with descriptions of additional apps. I have not seen the new version, but the descriptions in the blog were very useful.
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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
By Daisy
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Having never owned a tablet, I read the "official" Kindle Fire User's Guide twice before my Fire arrived. Bufo's new book, published five days after taking delivery of the Fire, contains more useful information than that found in Amazon's guide.

The technique of "splinterview," in which Bufo interviews Bufo, works extremely well. With splinterview, Bufo, the interviewer asks a question about the Fire and then Bufo, the author responds. Topics are covered in a non-intimidating easy-to-understand format.

Love Your Kindle Fire: The ILMK Guide to Amazon's Entertablet is a valuable tool for Kindle Fire owners who are well-versed in technology and those who are not. Everyone who reads Bufo's book will learn from it.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Another great book from the Kindle Guru Bufo
Anything from Bufo everyone knows it will be researched and well written. Loved the apps he suggests and the reason why he likes them.
Published 2 months ago by plain jane
i heart my ilmk blog
i find it absolutely amazing there are so few reviews for this blog. maybe there are thousands out there like me that make it their daily go to and just never thought to take a... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Kathleen A. Clisbee
A very useful starter
When I first got my Kindle Fire, I didn't find it particularly easy to get started with using the included documentation. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Will Earnest
Bufo's books are always worth reading
I was already pretty comfortable with my Fire but ordered this book anyway. I've learned from my first Kindle that Bufo's books are always worth reading for the extra tidbits I'll... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Carol B.
Mostly a waste of time.
I figured most of this out on my own in a few hours of using the "Fire". Much of the book-manual was written before the author even had a Kindle Fire to use, so he was guessing... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Daniel D. Small
On FIRE for my Kindle Fire!!!
I absolutely LOVE my Kindle Fire!!! No way I could ever afford a $500 tablet, and really thought that I wasn't missing out on much. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Evelyn G. Noweder
Fire Not Prime
I was disappointed that Bufo Calvin spect so much time on the Prime Subscription Service, which is not the same as the Kindle Fire device. Read more
Published 5 months ago by J. L. Hewes
Bufo Writes a Good One
I learned of the author of this neat little book as I have subscribed to his Kindle blog for two years. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Billwpp
Thank you!
Although I consider myself computer savvy, the Fire is my first tablet and had me a little baffled. Thanks to this book I am no longer afraid to use it... Read more
Published 6 months ago by KindleKrazy
Kindle fire book
I found this book to be very helpful too although I haven't received my Kindle Fire yet. Am anxious to read it over with the machine in front of me. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Carol J. Dingwell
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More About the Author

Bufo Calvin has been writing for more than thirty years. With a background both in books (as a former bookstore manager and inveterate reader) and technology (going back to the punch card days), the Kindle was a natural fit. With a strong desire to help people understand and enjoy things, which led to a career as a professional educator, Bufo has become a well-known part of the community of Kindle owners.

Since answering questions is one of Bufo's favorite things to do, you are invited to ask them in the forum on this page.

"ILMK: I Love My Kindle!"

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