Frontmatter and Introduction

Kindle 2 Links and Shortcuts: Frontmatter and Introduction

The following links, along with the original sentences in which they are provided, are from the above-referenced chapter of The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle 2, which is available in both Kindle and paperback editions from Amazon.com. This reference material is not intended in any way to replace the text of this book, but instead is meant to make it more convenient for readers who have purchased either the Kindle or paperback edition to follow along and access the linked pages from a conventional computer. All material here is protected by copyright held by Stephen Windwalker and Kindle Nation Daily.

Also by Stephen Windwalker

Nonfiction

The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle (First Generation) (2008)

No Kindle Required - The Complete "Kindle for iPhone" User's Guide (2009)

The Worried Citizen's Little Survival Guide to the Worst Financial Crisis of the Century (2009)

The Complete Step-by-Step Guide To Publishing Books, Articles & Other Content for the Amazon Kindle (2008)

Beyond the Literary-Industrial Complex: How Authors and Publishers Are Using the Amazon Kindle and Other New Technologies (2008)

Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites (2002)

Fiction

A Day at the Ballpark, and Other Stories (2000)

Say My Name (2004)

Literary Criticism

Lady Chatterley's Lover: The Complete, Unexpurgated Text, presented for the first time with the Stephen Windwalker Introduction (1973)

• I've written several books and articles including a very successful book about B.K. Amazon (yes, there was an Amazon before the Kindle) and how it conducts its business, but my first passion as a reader and an author has always been fiction and narrative nonfiction.
• If you are reading this on your Kindle, you can get an inexpensive companion paperback edition of this book easily in Amazon's main store by clicking on this link, typing in http://bit.ly/PaperbackKindleGuide, or clicking on the link at A Kindle Home Page.
• On that same Kindle Home Page website, you will find a complete set of the links contained in this book so that you may access them from your computer or even re-organize and customize sub-lists of them to send to your Kindle.
• (And, as we'll describe below, you will probably also want to visit the Kindle Nation Daily blogsign up in the Kindle Store to have each post pushed to your Kindle in real time for a total expenditure of just 99 cents a month, to keep up with the daily tips, tricks, and offers of free Kindle content that we share there.)
• You can also add value to your purchase in other ways: if you sign up for the free weekly Kindle Nation email newsletter or subscribe to have the same posts delivered daily in real-time to your Kindle, you will receive useful updates, notifications of free Kindle books or other free content in the Kindle Store or elsewhere, and other tips and tactics for getting the most out of your Kindle.
  
• If you are looking for a similarly comprehensive guide for the first-generation Kindle, here is a link to The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle 1, which is also available both as a Kindle edition and in a popular paperback version that was published by Harvard Perspectives Press in August 2008.
  
• As you are probably aware, Amazon also provides several useful documents to support the Kindle, including a basic Kindle User's Guide that you will find on your Kindle Home screen when you power up the Kindle for the first time, and a License Agreement with terms and conditions that can also be viewed on Amazon's website.
• Please be sure to read these documents from Amazon and make appropriate use of Amazon's Kindle Support program.
  
• There will also be Kindle edition readers who will want to access these links on their computer rather than on a Kindle. In order to provide a useful work-around for you, if you are one of these readers, I decided to make a free listing of all of these links available at the A Kindle Home Page website.
• It's the nature of the beast when one writes guidance material for new services and sites, of course, but to the extent possible I will try to provide updated material at A Kindle Home Page.
• Amazon no longer sells the Kindle 1 as a new device, but used and refurbished Kindles are available for about $200 in Amazon's Warehouse Deals store and the Amazon Marketplace.
• However, if two people on the same account are reading the same book on synchronized Kindles, you will want to turn WhisperSync off on the Manage Your Kindle page of your Amazon account, so that the two of you don't drive each other nuts losing each other's place!
  
• Finally, if you do wish to sell your first-generation Kindle, you will find a fairly brisk "Kindle 1" aftermarket on eBay and in the Amazon Marketplace.
  
• Otherwise, it makes more sense to sell your old Kindle via Amazon Marketplace, where there is a little less of a Wild West atmosphere and a more consistent price range than you will probably find at eBay.
• Deregister your Kindle (on your Amazon account's "Manage Your Kindle" page) before you ship it, and use your USB connection with your computer's "Finder" or "My Computer" feature to remove your files and personal documents from your Kindle.
• If you really want to school yourself on Amazon Marketplace selling before you list your Kindle for sale, well, I would be remiss not to recommend that you read my 2002 book Selling Used Books Online which, of course, is available for just 99 cents in a Kindle edition.