33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 100% Worthwhile Investment, April 29, 2008 By K. Blaeser skipblazer (Boston, MA USA) - my reviews (REAL NAME)
Like many new Kindle users, I bought this cool tricks Kindle book on my first buying spree about 2 months ago. I reserved judgment on how useful it would be until now, giving myself a chance to both read the material and receive the very helpful free emails that the author offers as a bonus, if you choose to send him your email address. The very first tip that came through that I used, a tip on a free download, in one click repaid the cost of the initial cool tricks book. High energy author who is motivated to find a position in this new market, and why not? Someone's got to save time for the rest of us, and I appreciate it. --Amazon Customer Reviews<br /><br />33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 100% Worthwhile Investment, April 29, 2008 By K. Blaeser skipblazer (Boston, MA USA) - my reviews (REAL NAME)
Like many new Kindle users, I bought this cool tricks Kindle book on my first buying spree about 2 months ago. I reserved judgment on how useful it would be until now, giving myself a chance to both read the material and receive the very helpful free emails that the author offers as a bonus, if you choose to send him your email address. The very first tip that came through that I used, a tip on a free download, in one click repaid the cost of the initial cool tricks book. High energy author who is motivated to find a position in this new market, and why not? Someone's got to save time for the rest of us, and I appreciate it. --Amazon Customer Reviews 9 of 12 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars
INSPIRING AND MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT ELSE THERE IS INSIDE THIS DEVICE, May 3, 2008 By M. Burgos
Expert Kindle graphics artist (Brooklyn, NY) - my reviews (REAL NAME)
Very interesting read. Ebooks like this should be encouraged. There's clearly more to the Kindle than meets the eye! --Amazon Customer Reviews . With over 30,000 copies sold,
The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle has helped thousands of current and prospective Kindle owners get the most out of their Kindles or conduct the due diligence necessary to decide if the device makes sense for them. Here are just a few of the dozens of five-star reviews that this book has received since it was first published in beta form under the title
How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email and Other Cool Tricks in December 2007:
Stephen Windwalker has done it again. --Manuel Burgos, author of Graphics on the Kindle
77 of 82 people found the following review helpful:
Great info for Kindle readers, many thanks!, March 26, 2008 By P.E. (TN, USA)
Informative and expanding, much information that an avid reader-turned-Kindle-reader might otherwise miss. Available elsewhere? Definitely, and those with an urge to tinker will find it. But if your focus is on the books and you are the sort who looks for answers in the user manual, then articles such as this are invaluable. This is the first review I have ever submitted to Amazon. Must admit that the electronic shouting matches that many of these review lists become puts me off. But the potential for a real paradigm shift in how we use, and value, cyber access exists here and the window won't likely stay open long. The more folks learn about the possibilities, the greater the push. Stephen Windwalker appears to be writing for the typical Kindle buyer who wants an electronic reader for the convenience of having a lot of books in a small, transportable package. --Amazon Customer Reviews
33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 100% Worthwhile Investment, April 29, 2008 By K. Blaeser skipblazer (Boston, MA USA) - my reviews (REAL NAME)
Like many new Kindle users, I bought this cool tricks Kindle book on my first buying spree about 2 months ago. I reserved judgment on how useful it would be until now, giving myself a chance to both read the material and receive the very helpful free emails that the author offers as a bonus, if you choose to send him your email address. The very first tip that came through that I used, a tip on a free download, in one click repaid the cost of the initial cool tricks book. High energy author who is motivated to find a position in this new market, and why not? Someone's got to save time for the rest of us, and I appreciate it. --Amazon Customer Reviews
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars
INSPIRING AND MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT ELSE THERE IS INSIDE THIS DEVICE, May 3, 2008 By M. Burgos
Expert Kindle graphics artist (Brooklyn, NY) - my reviews (REAL NAME)
Very interesting read. Ebooks like this should be encouraged. There's clearly more to the Kindle than meets the eye! --Amazon Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews & Comments
Informative and expanding, much information that an avid reader-turned-Kindle-reader might otherwise miss. Available elsewhere? Definitely, and those with an urge to tinker will find it. But if your focus is on the books and you are the sort who looks for answers in the user manual, then articles such as this are invaluable.
This is the first review I have ever submitted to Amazon. Must admit that the electronic shouting matches that many of these review lists become puts me off. But the potential for a real paradigm shift in how we use, and value, "cyber access" exists here and the window won't likely stay open long. The more folks learn about the possibilities, the greater the push. Stephen Windwalker appears to be writing for the "typical Kindle buyer" who wants an electronic reader for the convenience of having a lot of books in a small, transportable package. Thoughts of expanded uses are not even entertained in many cases. Without articles like this to inform the conventional user of these possibilities, many will be happy, contented readers and never know other capabilities exist.
Kindle is a terrific way to read books. I started a skeptic, bought my wife one as a gift, and we now have a pair. (She offered to share but I knew she didn't really want to.) We are both voracious readers, several books a week when we aren't being consumed by one work crisis or another. While we both have the tech savvy to figure out anything that is discussed in this article, for a couple dollars we didn't have to. It came instantly to my Kindle at the push of a button. And that is the bottom line for me.
Any information worth having is worth a couple dollars if you can get what you need in a concise, ordered format and if it saves you the time you would have spent in finding it yourself. The more people that have this information, the more clamor there will be to enhance and expand these capabilities, and the sooner the better. And that will make a $2.39 investment seem like a prophetic decision.
