Okay I admit it, I am sort of a geek.

When I got my first kindle [a present for my daughter], it was love at first sight. Because you can change the size of the type, create electronic bookmarks. [Somehow, I always felt guilty about folding the corner of the page over]

Several months later I discovered how to add notes to sentences/paragraphs (never read the instruction unless all else fails)…This is sort of like writing in the margins of your book, except you have unlimited space. In the best of all it’s like writing with a pencil because, you can erase it. You can also share your bookmarks and notes.

Amazingly, that was only the tip of the iceberg. Here’s a few more things to help you discover why the Kindle is so popular.

My Personal Favorite

Is the fact that you can download a free viewer, for your desktop, your smart phone, which will instantly turn each of them into a Kindle? In particular, the desktop viewer creates a giant kindle. [If you're over 40 you will like that a lot]

Get Your Free Readers here Home, phone, tablet etc.

Oh yes you know that TV ad with a guy walks from one room to the other continues watching the same show?

Well your Kindle’s sinks automatically you can read part of the book on your computer screen at work, continue on while you’re waiting in the doctor’s office, and maybe after dinner read a chapter at two on your home computer.

Just hit the menu button and choose sync to the furthest this page read

If you already have a Kindle, there some detailed tips and tricks on how to unlock its hidden secrets.

Viewing Popular Highlights

Amazon displays Popular Highlights by combining the highlights of all Kindle customers and identifying the passages with the most highlights.

The resulting Popular Highlights help readers focus on passages that are meaningful to the greatest number of people. Some books don’t have enough highlighting in them to have Popular Highlights.

Popular Highlights are marked with a gray dashed underline. The number of people who have highlighted the text appears at the beginning of the marked text. You can see Popular Highlights for all books that have them
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Kindle Frequenly Asked Questions

To view Popular Highlights:

1. Open a book on your Kindle.
2. Press the Menu button and select “View Popular Highlights” from the options.

To turn Popular Highlights on and off:

1. Navigate to Kindle’s Home screen and press the Menu button.
2. Select “Settings.”
3. Select the desired option next to “Popular Highlights.”

Managing Popular Highlights

If you have a Kindle device, you can turn off having your highlights in popular highlights by turning off Annotations Backup in Settings on your device. If you have a Kindle App, we will be adding this capability soon. Annotations BackUp backs up your annotations and last page read and syncs them across devices. You can also remove highlights you made previously from Popular Highlights.

To turn off Annotations Backup:

1. Navigate to Kindle’s Home screen and press the Menu button.
2. Select “Settings.”
3. Select the desired option next to “Annotations Backup.”

To remove previous highlights from Popular Highlights:

1. Visit the Amazon Kindle website and log in using the e-mail address and password for the Amazon account you used to register your Kindle.
2. Select “Your Highlights” from the Browse options at the top of the page.
3. Select “Delete this highlight” next to each highlight you wish to remove.

Adding Notes

Kindle Keyboard allows you to add comments, make notes, and mark up passages just as you might in a printed book.

To add a note:

1. Move the cursor to where you want to place a note using the 5-way controller.
2. Type your note.
3. Select “save note” at the bottom of the screen.

A superscripted number appears where you inserted your note. Notes are numbered in the order they appear in the content and update automatically if you add more.

To edit or delete a note:

1. Select the note’s number using the 5-way controller so the note appears at the bottom of the screen.
2. Press the Return key to edit the note or the Delete key to delete the note.
3. Use the keyboard to make changes if editing.
4. Select “save note” to save any changes.

Making Clippings

You can “clip” an entire periodical article and save it to the “My Clippings” file.

To clip an article:

1. Go to the article you want to clip.
2. Press the Menu button.
3. Select “Clip this Article.”

To view your clippings:

1. Press the Home button to display the Home screen.
2. Select “My Clippings” from the Home screen.

Editing the “My Clippings” File

All of your bookmarks, highlights, notes, and clippings are stored in the “My Clippings” TXT file on your Kindle. You can transfer and copy the file to share and use your clippings.

To transfer the “My Clippings” file and open it on your computer:

1. Connect your Kindle to your computer using the USB cable.
2. Use your computer’s file browser to view the Documents folder on Kindle.
3. Transfer the “My Clippings” file from Kindle to your computer.
4. Open the “My Clippings” file on your computer using an application that can read or import a .TXT file.

If you wish, you can make changes to the file and transfer it back to your Kindle. Changing your “My Clippings” file does not affect any notes, bookmarks, or highlights you’ve made in the actual content. The next time you read the content, you can still use them for navigation and reference.

To remove the “My Clippings” file from your Kindle:

1. Press the Home button to display the Home screen.
2. Underline “My Clippings” on the Home screen.
3. Move the 5-way controller to the left.
4. Press the 5-way to select “Delete.”

Kindle adds a new “My Clippings” file the next time you add a clipping or annotation to any content.

Public Notes

Public Notes allow you to connect with fellow readers by seeing what passages they found meaningful in books you are both reading.

You can search for and follow other readers Who have shared there book marks for all books that have them Scrool Down.

If someone you follow has highlighted a passage in a book and has turned on Public Notes for the book, you’ll see that passage highlighted along with the name of the person who highlighted it. The”@” symbol will be displayed in the text where any notes were made.

Public Notes will also appear in a list with your personal annotations if you select “View Notes and Marks” from the menu while reading. By default, Public Notes are displayed in your books but you can turn them off if you don’t want to see them.

To turn Public Notes on and off:

1. Navigate to Kindles Home screen and press the Menu button.
2. Select “Settings.”
3. Select the desired option next to “Public Notes.”

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