If you want to save time and just get on with your reading, here are some very useful shortcuts that you can use with your Amazon Kindle 2. Note that Alt – letter or key or Shift – letter or key means that you hold down the Alt/Shift key and then press the other letter or button indicated.
Most Commonly Used Shortcuts
• To bookmark – Alt-B
• To go to the Kindle Store – Alt-Home
• To take a screenshot – Alt+Shift+G
• To play MineSweeper – Alt+Shift+M
• To refresh screen and get rid of ghosting (double imaging) – Alt-G
• To reload a page while in web mode – Alt-R
• To see Wireless Network – Press Menu and look to the top right of the screen
• To know the time – Press Menu and look to the top center of the screen
• To find out the memory available on your Kindle 2 – Press Menu and look to the top left of the screen
Shortcuts for the MP3 Player:
• To continue or stop background audio – Alt-Space
• To jump to the next track – Alt-F
Shortcuts your can use when entering text into your Amazon Kindle:
• To put in a question mark – Alt-6
• To put in a comma – Alt-7
• To put in a colon – Alt-8
• To put in quotation marks – Alt-9
• To put in a single quotation mark – Alt-7
Shortcuts for the Read to Me or Text to Speech (TTS) feature
• To start and stop TTS – Shift-Sym
• To pause or continue while TTS is on – Shift key. If this doesn’t work for you try the Spacebar button.
• To toggle between male and female voices and alter voice speed while TTS is on – Alt-Aa keys then use the 5-way controller
• To begin TTS at a specific part of a page – navigate the cursor that location first and then start TTS.
Stay tuned for more Amazon Kindle how-to tips! In the meantime, why don’t you check out the all-new Amazon Kindle DX?
Resource: ireaderreview.com
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I was loving my Kindle until last evening when it wouldn’t come on..Ive tried plugging it in, but nothing. Please help!! I’m going away and really want to have my Kindle!!
Kindle guides are available at http://www.amazon.com/kindledocuments
Thanks a bunch for these tips. I’m just trying them out and I let my (3 and 5 yr old) kids listen in as I toggle the text to speech voice from a male to female, then back again. They found it pretty amusing and got them really intrigued.
Chris:
You can find a copy of all the guides for all the Amazon Kindles (Kindle first generation, Kindle 2, and Kindle DX) here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200317150
TravisVS
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These are pretty neat shortcuts — not that I’d be using a lot of the mp3 player (too much of a distraction), the read to me feature (same reason), or playing minesweeper
. What I’d really like to know is where I can possibly get a full manual for the Kindle 2. I got mine second-hand for a really cheap price, and though it works perfectly well, it came sans instructional guide.