Tips and Tricks for Making the Most of Your Kindle's Free Features

Kindle 2 Links and Shortcuts
From Tips and Tricks for Making the Most of Your Kindle's Free Features

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.

• Just navigate to http://www.showmycoverage.com/IMPACT.jsp and enter zip codes or other information to see mapping of Sprint wireless coverage areas anywhere in the United States.
• To find Internet coverage while you are traveling inside or outside the U.S., www.jiwire.com is a helpful resource.
• As you can see by comparing the Kindle 2 Whispernet coverage area with the coverage area for the Kindle 1, the area has been greatly expanded for the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX, due mainly to more powerful connectivity built into the unit itself.
• This newly introduced Kindle Gift Card is available in any amount from $5 to $5,000 and addresses a pet peeve of Kindle owners and their friends and loved ones, which is that -- unlike everything else on the virtual shelves of the Amazon store -- there was no smooth and easy way to make gifts of Kindle content.
• To ask for a Kindle gift card as a gift, just email this Kindle Gift Card link to the person you’re asking, and make sure, if they are having Amazon send the gift card to you electronically, that you send the link from the email account that is associated with your main Amazon account.
  
• To order a Kindle gift card, gift certificate, or email a gift credit in any quantity or any amount from $5 to $5,000, just click here, look for the "click to select design" link, and use the "Select" button to choose the "Amazon Kindle" gift card.
  
• Visit http://www.amazon.com/gp/youraccount.
• Some of this material is also available online on a single web page at A Kindle Home Page.