Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Experimental Features
Kindle Keyboard features an experimental web browser based on WebKit to provide a better web browsing experience. Now it's easier than ever to find the information you're looking for right from your Kindle. Experimental web browsing is free.
Read-to-Me
With the Text-to-Speech feature, Kindle Keyboard can read English newspapers, magazines, blogs, and books out loud to you, unless the book's rights holder made the feature unavailable. You can switch back and forth between reading and listening, and your spot is automatically saved. Pages automatically turn while the content is being read, so you can listen hands-free. You can choose from both male and female voices which can be sped up or slowed down to suit your preference. In the middle of a great story or article but have to jump in the car? Simply turn on Text-to-Speech and listen on the go.
Voice Guide
In addition to reading books, Text-to-Speech can also read aloud menu options, content listings and item descriptions across your Kindle Keyboard. Simply turn on Voice Guide in the Settings menu to get started.
Listen to Music & Podcasts
Transfer MP3 files to Kindle to play as background music while you read. You can quickly and easily transfer MP3 files via USB by connecting Kindle to your computer.
The Kindle Store - Over One Million Books, Plus Newspapers, Magazines, and Blogs
Access the Kindle Store wirelessly right from your Kindle Keyboard 3G – search and shop the world’s largest selection of books that people want to read, plus magazines, newspapers, blogs and games. We auto-deliver all your purchases in seconds – simply search, buy, and you’re ready to read.
Personalized Recommendations
Kindle makes it easy to discover new titles with recommendations personalized just for you. The Kindle Store uses the same personalized customer experience you're used to across Amazon.com, matching our best recommendations to your personal reading habits.
Over a Million Books
The Kindle store contains the largest selection of books people want to read: over a million books, including 800,000 at $9.99 or less. We work directly with publishers to get the latest bestsellers, biggest new releases and the titles most popular with tens of millions of Amazon’s book customers. Over 2 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available such as Pride and Prejudice and Treasure Island.
Over 60,000 Audible Audiobooks Available - with Wireless Delivery
Discover, download, and listen to over 60,000 Audible.com audiobooks — read by authors, celebrities, and world-class narrators — right from your Kindle Keyboard 3G. Shop the Internet’s premier provider of digital audiobooks, with genres including mysteries and thrillers, romance, and biographies.
Newsstand
Shop and subscribe to your favorite magazines and newspapers such as Time, Newsweek and The New Yorker, from Newsstand. New editions are auto-delivered wirelessly direct to your device the second they go on sale.
Blogs
Games
Take a break from reading to enjoy a selection of great games specially designed for Kindle, like Every Word and Number Slide.
Customize Your Kindle
Organize Your Library
Organize your Kindle library into collections, or categories, to easily access any book you are looking for. You can add an item to multiple collections to make organizing and finding titles even easier. For example, you can add the same book to your "History" and "My Favorite Authors" collections.
Password Protection
With new password protection functionality, you can choose to lock your Kindle Keyboard automatically when you’re not using it.
Notes and Sharing
Bookmarks and Annotations
By using the QWERTY keyboard, you can add annotations to text, just like you might write in the margins of a book. And because it is digital, you can edit, delete, and export your notes. You can highlight and clip key passages and bookmark pages for future use. You'll never need to bookmark your last place in the book, because Kindle remembers for you and always opens to the last page you read.
Popular Highlights
See what millions of Kindle readers think are the most interesting passages in your books. If several other readers have highlighted a particular passage, then that passage will be highlighted in your book along with the total number of people who have highlighted it
Share Meaningful Passages
Share your passion for books and reading with friends, family, and other readers around the world by posting meaningful passages to social networks like Facebook and Twitter directly from Kindle Keyboard 3G, without leaving the page. Want to post or tweet about a great new novel or newspaper article? When you highlight a passage or create a note in your book or periodical, you can easily share it with your social network. Help your network of family and friends discover new authors and books.
Public Notes
Share your notes and see what others are saying about Kindle books. Any Kindle user – including authors, book reviewers, professors and passionate readers everywhere – can opt-in to share their thoughts on book passages and ideas with friends, family members, colleagues, and the greater Kindle community
Lend Your Books
Lend eligible Kindle books to other Kindle or Kindle app users. Each eligible book can be lent once for a period of 14 days. Not all books are lendable — the publisher or rights holder determines which titles are enabled for lending. For more information on how to lend Kindle books,
Public Library Books
Customers can check out a Kindle book from their local library and start reading on any Kindle or free Kindle reading app
Monday, January 30, 2012
Dictionary and Search
Built-In Dictionary with Instant Lookup
Come across a word you don’t know? Kindle Keyboard 3G includes The New Oxford American Dictionary with over 250,000 entries and definitions for free. Kindle Keyboard lets you instantly lookup the definition without ever leaving the book – simply move the cursor to the word and the definition will automatically display at the bottom of the screen.
Search Wikipedia and the Web
Kindle Keyboard 3G makes it easy to find what you’re looking for. Just enter a word or phrase and Kindle will search every instance across your Kindle library, in the Kindle Store, on Wikipedia, or the Web using Google search.
Reading on Kindle
Kindle Keyboard 3G has eight adjustable font sizes to suit your reading preference. You can increase the text size of your favorite book or periodical with the push of a button. If your eyes tire, simply increase the font size and continue reading comfortably. Kindle Keyboard also has three font styles to choose from – all optimized and hand-tuned to provide the best reading experience.
Custom Fonts
Kindle Keyboard 3G uses hand-built, custom fonts and font-hinting to make words and letters more crisp, clear, and natural-looking. Font hints are instructions, written as code, that control points on a font character's line, improving legibility at small font sizes where few pixels are available. Hinting is a mix of aesthetic judgments and complicated technical strategies. We've designed our proprietary font-hinting to optimize specifically for the special characteristics of electronic ink.
Fast Page Turns
Kindle Keyboard 3G has fast page turns. We’ve done this by fine-tuning Kindle Keyboard’s proprietary waveform, the series of electronic pulses that move black and white electronic ink particles to achieve an optimal display of images and text.
Full Image Zoom
Images and photos display crisply on Kindle and can be zoomed to the full size of the screen.
Support for Non-Latin Characters
Kindle Keyboard 3G supports the display of non-Latin characters, so you can read books and documents in the translation that’s right for you. Kindle Keyboard 3G displays Cyrillic (such as Russian), Japanese, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), and Korean characters, in addition to Latin and Greek scripts.
Rotate Between Portrait and Landscape Mode
Manually rotate the display from portrait to landscape to view maps, graphs, tables and Web pages.
Real Page Numbers
Easily reference and cite passages or read alongside others in a book club or class with real page numbers. Using the computing fabric of Amazon Web Services, we’ve created algorithms that match specific text in a Kindle book to the corresponding text in a print book, to identify the correct, “real” page number to display. Real page numbers are available on tens of thousands of our most popular Kindle books, including the top 100 bestselling books in the Kindle Store that have matching print editions. Page numbers are displayed when you push the menu button.
Carry and Read Your Personal Documents
Kindle Keyboard 3G makes it easy to take your personal documents with you, eliminating the need to print. You and your approved contacts can e-mail documents – including Word, PDF and more - directly to your Kindle Keyboard 3G and read them in Kindle format. Delivery via Wi-Fi is free; there is a small fee for delivery via 3G - . Your personal documents will be stored in your Kindle library on Amazon and ready to download conveniently anywhere at any time. You can add notes, highlights and bookmarks, which are automatically synchronized across devices along with the last page you read using our Whispersync technology.
Wireless Capability
Easiest to Use, Free 3G Wireless
Kindle Keyboard 3G offers the convenience of no wireless setup--you are ready to shop, download, and read right out of the box. Kindle Keyboard 3G uses the same wireless signals as cell phones, so you don't need to worry about Wi-Fi connections, passwords or internet charges. Unlike cell phones, with Kindle Keyboard 3G there are no monthly fees or commitments — Amazon pays for Kindle Keyboard 3G's wireless connectivity.
Your Kindle Keyboard 3G may use wireless connectivity to make other services available, such as wireless delivery of personal documents (see below), which may require an additional charge. For more information, see Wireless Terms and Conditions.
With wireless coverage in over 100 countries and territories, Kindle Keyboard 3G lets you download books anytime, anywhere, whether you're relaxing on a beach, halfway through a hike, or waiting on the tarmac.
Check 3G coverage area
For U.S. customers traveling abroad, additional charges apply for wireless delivery of periodical subscriptions. For details, click here. To avoid any charges, you can always download items via your computer and transfer them to your Kindle using USB or a Wi-Fi connection.
Built-in Wi-Fi
Kindle Keyboard 3G also comes with built-in Wi-Fi so you can search, shop and have books wirelessly delivered to your device without synching to a computer. Kindle Keyboard 3G automatically detects nearby Wi-Fi networks wherever you are, making it easy to connect at school, home, or your favorite café.
Free Access at AT&T Hotspots
Enjoy free Wi-Fi access at AT&T hotspots across the U.S. for shopping and downloading Kindle content — no AT&T registration, sign-in, or password required.
Kindle Keyboard 3G offers the convenience of no wireless setup--you are ready to shop, download, and read right out of the box. Kindle Keyboard 3G uses the same wireless signals as cell phones, so you don't need to worry about Wi-Fi connections, passwords or internet charges. Unlike cell phones, with Kindle Keyboard 3G there are no monthly fees or commitments — Amazon pays for Kindle Keyboard 3G's wireless connectivity.
Your Kindle Keyboard 3G may use wireless connectivity to make other services available, such as wireless delivery of personal documents (see below), which may require an additional charge. For more information, see Wireless Terms and Conditions.
With wireless coverage in over 100 countries and territories, Kindle Keyboard 3G lets you download books anytime, anywhere, whether you're relaxing on a beach, halfway through a hike, or waiting on the tarmac.
Check 3G coverage area
For U.S. customers traveling abroad, additional charges apply for wireless delivery of periodical subscriptions. For details, click here. To avoid any charges, you can always download items via your computer and transfer them to your Kindle using USB or a Wi-Fi connection.
Built-in Wi-Fi
Kindle Keyboard 3G also comes with built-in Wi-Fi so you can search, shop and have books wirelessly delivered to your device without synching to a computer. Kindle Keyboard 3G automatically detects nearby Wi-Fi networks wherever you are, making it easy to connect at school, home, or your favorite café.
Free Access at AT&T Hotspots
Enjoy free Wi-Fi access at AT&T hotspots across the U.S. for shopping and downloading Kindle content — no AT&T registration, sign-in, or password required.
Elegant, Easy-to-use E-reader
Lose Yourself in Your Reading
The most elegant feature of a physical book is that it disappears while you're reading. Immersed in the author's world and ideas, you don't notice a book's glue, the stitching, or ink. Our top design objective is to make Kindle Keyboard 3G disappear — just like a physical book — so you can get lost in your reading, not the technology.
Ergonomic Design
Kindle Keyboard 3G is easy to hold and read. We designed our e-reader with long-form reading in mind. When reading for long periods of time, people naturally shift positions and often like to read with one hand. Kindle Keyboard 3G's page-turning buttons are located on both sides, allowing you to read and turn pages from any position.
Simple Controls
Kindle Keyboard 3G has an easy-to-use 5-way controller for on-screen navigation for highlighting text or looking up words. For searching and note-taking, Kindle Keyboard features a physical keyboard.
Never Gets Hot
Unlike a laptop, Kindle Keyboard 3G never gets hot so you can read comfortably as long as you like.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Why design kindle it the best ?
Reads Like Real Paper, Even in Bright Sunlight
E Ink screens look and read just like real paper. Kindle e-readers' matte screens reflect light like ordinary paper and use no backlighting, so you can read as easily in bright sunlight as in your living room. Unlike LCD screens, E Ink screens have no glare.
Easy on the Eyes
E Ink uses actual ink particles to create crisp, print-like text similar to what you see in a physical book. And Kindle e-readers also use proprietary, hand-built fonts to take advantage of the special characteristics of the ink to make letters appear clear and sharp.
- Less eye fatigue: Every time your eye switches from a bright screen to a dimmer, ambient room, your eyes have to adjust, which may result in fatigue. With E Ink, the page is the same brightness as everything else in the room so there's no adjustment needed.
- Reduced glare: All E Ink surfaces are treated to be matte like a printed page, reducing glare and increasing legibility.
- Read in any position: E Ink screens have a uniform contrast ratio that does not change with your viewing angle, so you can read in any position.
- Sharp, clear text: E Ink screens have 100% aperture ratio, so there are no gaps between pixels. The blacks and whites on an E Ink screen are uniform, improving image quality.
Read with One Hand
Ranging from 5.98 ounces to 8.7 ounces, Kindle e-readers are lighter than most paperback books, and weigh half as much as many LCD tablet devices, making it easy and comfortable to hold in one hand for extended periods of time.
Longer Battery Life
Electronic ink screens also have the advantage of significantly lower power consumption than LCD screens. E Ink screens do not require power to maintain a page of text, allowing you to read for up to a month or two on a single charge versus hours on a tablet or smart phone.
Top 10 Features of the Kindle
1. The Kindle is hand-held: You can totally pick the Kindle Related Coverage
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that with the iPad. Youd be so afraid of breaking it due to how heavy and tall it is that youd dedicate all 10 fingers to it. Not so with Kindle book readers
2. The Kindle is the least expensive option of all: The Kindle comes with Wifi only or Wifi and 3G access, depending on which model you choose. Both of these are less than $200, which is more than you can say for most other ebook readers, save for the Barnes and Noble Nook.
3. 3G access is free on the Kindle: The extra $30 you pay upfront for a 3G-enabled Kindle lets you browse on 3G networks for free all over the world. The only time Amazon will charge you is if you start downloading huge files over the 3G network. Keep it free and only download new ebooks over a Wifi network.
4. 3G Kindle Book Readers have a better display: Unlike Apple iPads, which cant be read in direct sunlight because of the sheer glare, Kindle devices dont have a backlight, and thus can be read anywhere without a glare. If you intend to read in darker lighting, get yourself a Kindle-lighted cover, which adds a covering case and a backlight to your device for reading late at night or in bed when your spouse is sleeping.
5. You dont need a computer: Just about every other ebook reader requires some kind of connection to a computer, even if only to use it for the first time. But with the Kindle, you can do everything over Wifi or a 3G network, no computer needed.
6. With the new built-in 3G technology also being used by cellular phones, a less than a minute book download can be done anytime, anywhere without wireless set up. So, you can now shop and read even when you're on the go. What's exciting about it is that Amazon takes care of the connectivity so there are no fees applied- it's free. The coverage, by the way, is in over 100 countries and territories! No doubt every working professionals, international students or fun-travelers would love to have it.
7. No, it's not an illusion to store and to bring along 3,500 books in this single hardware device, and as if reading on an ordinary paperback. Apart from the option to download from a selection of over 725,000 books in Kindle Store plus New York Times Bestsellers available at $9.99. One of the greatest features is its new E Ink Technology making 50% better contrast plus the sharpest text you could lay eyes on that's why it's only pleasant reading you could get.
8. Great savings of $69 is a treat because its current offering is only $189 from $258! There's only but a good catch because features were even added and made better, you'll be charmed. Be a part of the millions who chose to have the best and read on kindle.
9. It has a great new size. The actual reading area has stayed the same, while the overall size has been reduced, allowing the new Kindle to easily fit into a purse or vest pocket.
10.Kindle books offer a lifetime of reading. There are currently 775,000 titles available. Add to that 1.8 million public domain titles and you are pretty much set for life
Jeff Bezos and kindle
While still in high school, Bezos developed the Dream Institute, a centre that promoted creative thinking in young students. After graduating (1986) summa cum laude from Princeton University with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, he undertook a series of jobs before joining the New York investment bank D.E. Shaw & Co. in 1990. Soon named senior vice president—the firm's youngest—Bezos was in charge of examining the investment possibilities of the Internet. Its enormous potential—Web usage was growing by more than 2,000 percent a year—sparked his entrepreneurial imagination. In 1994 he quit D.E. Shaw and moved to Seattle, Wash., to open a virtual bookstore. Working out of his garage with a handful of employees, Bezos began developing the software for the site. Named after the South American river, Amazon.com sold its first book in July 1995.
Groundbreaking Success
Amazon.com quickly became the leader in e-commerce. Open 24 hours a day, the site was user-friendly, encouraging browsers to post their own reviews of books and offering discounts, personalized recommendations, and searches for out-of-print books. In June 1998 it began selling CDs, and later that year it added videos. In 1999 Bezos added auctions to the site and invested in other virtual stores. The success of Amazon.com encouraged other retailers, including major book chains, to establish online stores. As more companies battled for Internet dollars, Bezos saw the need to diversify, and by 2005 Amazon.com offered a vast array of products, including consumer electronics, apparel, and hardware. Amazon.com's yearly net sales increased from $510,000 in 1995 to some $600 million in 1998 and to more than $19.1 billion in 2008.
In late 2007 Amazon.com released a new handheld reading device called the Kindle—a digital book reader with wireless Internet connectivity enabling customers to purchase, download, read, and store a vast selection of books on demand. Earlier that year Bezos had announced that he would invest a portion of his Amazon earnings to fund Blue Origin, a Seattle-based aerospace company that would offer suborbital flights in a redeveloped commercial spacecraft to paying customers beginning in 2010.
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