links for 2010-01-06
Thursday, January 7th, 2010-
Kindlefeeder is a service for Amazon Kindle owners that lets you aggregate your favorite feeds and have them delivered to your Kindle in a convenient, easy-to-navigate format. Kindlefeeder also lets you save individual webpages and have them delivered to your Kindle along with your feeds.
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With the ability to add notes to your Kindle 2 content and search for specific words or phrases on your Kindle 2's Home screen, you can categorize content by genre or other personalized terms.
' Open up one of your books, select Add a Note or Highlight, and enter in a word (or words) you'd like to categorize by - genres such as history, fantasy, biography, etc. Try putting your initials or a common letter such as "x" before the word, "cshistory" or "xfantasy" for example. Save the note you chose to enter.
' Now go back to your Home screen and type in the word you just used for your note.
' Once you've typed it, move your 5-way controller to the right and click on "Search My Items." You'll see the book you just added the note to appear.
' If you've added that note in multiple books, each one will appear in your search results. '
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Typing '@h' at the Home screen gets you a pop-up box saying
" Supported shortcuts: @dict, @help, @print [?] @store, @time, @url, @web, @wiki, @wikipedia " -
Enter your e-mail address and click "Get e-book." You will receive an email confirmation with a link to download your free e-book, as well as a link to Adobe’s Digital Editions software, used to display the book.
