Kindle Fire QuickSteps
Kindle Fire is right now by far the most popular Android tablet. It is a tablet dedicated almost exclusively to content consumption, and this has lead to many design compromises as compared to the more robust, larger, tablets. Nevertheless, its ease of use, the unbeatable price, and the smooth integration into the Amazon’s “ecosystem” make it a very appealing device.
Kindle Fire is a very intuitive and easy to use device, especially if you’ve already had some experience with other Kindles and/or touch-screen devices. Nonetheless, if you are interested in having a handy manual that will help you with most of your usual tasks, then “Kindle Fire QuickSteps” might be the right resource for you.
This book is written and designed in such a way that it helps you get the task that you are interested in done in the quickest possible way, hence its title. All tasks are described in a series of clear, easy to follow, steps. The writing is clear and to the point. Many small points and tasks are described in the oversize margins, so that they are both accessible and don’t interfere much with the rest of the text. The book is beautifully illustrated, with a lot of large color illustrations and screenshots.
The large format of this book, as well as its “landscape” orientation, make it an easily browsable resource. It’s very easy to flip through pages to get to the topic that you are looking for. Furthermore, all of the chapters are numbered and color-coded on the margins, which also adds to the accessibility of various topics. The chapters in this book are:
1. Getting Started
2. Shopping for and Managing Print Content
3. Reading Newspapers, Magazines, and Books
4. Obtaining, Storing, and Listening to Audiobooks
5. Obtaining, Watching, and Managing Video
6. Exploring Appstore for Android and Using Apps
7. Reading, Writing, and Managing Email
8. Surfing the Web with Amazon Silk
9. Using the Kindle Fire at Home, for Business, and for Travel
10. Managing, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting Your Kindle Fire
Overall, this is a very good tutorial and a reference book for anyone who needs to get a better grip on their Kindle Fire’s functionality.
About the Author
Bojan Tunguz
Bojan Tunguz was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he and his family fled during the civil war for the neighboring Croatia. Over the past two decades he has studied, lived and worked in the United States. He is a theoretical physicist with degrees from Stanford and University of Illinois. Tunguz has taught physics at several prominent liberal arts colleges and has been writing about physics, science and technology for more than a decade. He also has a wide spectrum of interests, and reads and writes about current events, society, culture, religion and politics. Over the years he has reviewed many of the books that he has read, and posted his reviews on various online outlets. In 2011 he had become a top 10 reviewer on Amazon.com, where he continues to be very active. Aside from reading and writing, Tunguz enjoys traveling, digital photography, hiking, and fitness. He resides with his wife in Indiana. You can follow my review updates on the following pages as well: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tunguzreview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tunguzreviews Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104312842297641697463/posts
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