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Kindle 3 Keyboard Shortcuts ver 1.12 [4]

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ALT+H and ALT+J to nudge left and right

Use the Next Page and Previous Page buttons to move up or down within the web page

Use the 5-way arrows to move left, right, up and down within the web page

SHIFT+the 5-way arrows to pan without waiting for the cursor v1.12

When the cursor is in the browser's address field, ALT+DEL will delete the field

When in Google Reader, you can use full screen mode and some other keyboard commands [Wired's Gadget Lab article} In the Kindle browser, log into your Google Reader account

Navigate to your feed list and select a feed

Once in the articles, use the Google reader keyboard command 'f' to turn on full screen mode

Use the Aa button to increase the text size if desired

Use the Kindle's next and previous page buttons to scroll through the articles, or use keyboard commands such a 'n' and 'p (or 'j' and 'k')' to go to the next/previous item, and 'shift+u' to toggle the navigation menu and the list of feeds [Google Reader's keyboard shortcuts]

Works best for feeds which show complete articles, as the Kindle browser will not open articles in a separate window

Archives and Deleting Books Forever


Background: When you look at 'Archives' on your Kindle, you will see a list of books purchased from Amazon that are not on your Kindle.

Amazon books on your Kindle + Books listed in archives = all books purchased from Amazon.

If you remove an Amazon book from your Kindle, the number of books on your Kindle decreases by one, and the number of books listed in your archives increases by one.

All books purchased from Amazon are stored on the Amazon servers and can be downloaded to the Kindle at any time by selecting it from the archive list (as long as you have a Whispernet connection).

Personal documents and books purchased from sources other than Amazon are not stored on the Amazon servers and you must keep your own backup copy.

Removing books from the Kindle To remove a book from your Kindle, use the 5-way to move to the book title and then move the 5-way to the right to display the book's detail page. You can also move the 5-way to the left, but it's very easy to accidentally delete a collection when you do that

Select the option "Remove from Device". If the option is "Delete This Document" rather than "Remove from Device", the book was not purchased from Amazon; if you delete it, there will not be a backup copy on Amazon's servers.

Occasionally, a book gets "stuck" and cannot be removed; instead, it remains greyed out on the Kindle even after you remove it. If this happens, connect the Kindle to you computer via USB and manually delete the book's .azw (or .azw1 or .tpz) file and its matching .mbp (or .tan) file.

Deleting books forever To permanently delete a book from the Amazon archive, you need to go to your Manage Your Kindle page on the Amazon web site

Locate the book in 'Your Orders'

Click on the + to the left of the book title to show additional options

Click on the 'Delete this title' button

Warning: this is a permanent delete. If you want to read the book again, you will have to re-purchase it from Amazon.

If a book has been removed from your Kindle and does not appear in 'Your Orders', but still appears in your archive list on the Kindle, you have probably moved the book to trash in Your Media Library. To check: Go to Your Account on the Amazon web site

In 'Digital Content', click on the link to 'Your Collection'

Once in Your Collection, click on the drop-down box and select 'Trash'

Take the book out of Trash

Go back to Manage Your Kindle; the book should now appear in Your Orders and can be deleted.

Kindle Calculations


The search window can be used as a simple calculator. Steven Ehrbar has kindly provided most of these details:v1.11Standard operators are + (addition), – (subtraction), * (multiplication), / (division), % (modulus), and ^ (exponentiation).

Parentheses () work for grouping, {} and [] do not.

Functions, which work on a value or expression in the parentheses, are: Trig functions: acos(), asin(), atan(), cos(), cosh(), sin(),

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