Saturday, February 6, 2010

How To Go Back to A Book's First Page

Note: This has turned out to be one of the most popular posts on this blog. I guess everyone who gets a new Kindle needs to know how to do this!

Since you're here, I thought I'd put in a plug for Kindle Blogs. Amazon has removed them from the Kindle "Stripe", which is pretty damn annoying, but if you want to subscribe to a blog on Kindle, just make sure you're in the Kindle store, type in the subject you're interested in, and type "blog" at the end of it, and that should bring up any blogs on the topic
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Now, how to go to a book's first page.
Press the menu button. That's the one where you Turn Wireless Off or On (supposedly if you keep it turned off except while you're downloading books, it saves the battery), and can shop in the Kindle store.

On the MENU, you'll see:
Turn Wireless On
Shop In Kindle Store
Go To...

[If you're not in a book and you press the MENU button, there will be no "Go To..." choice. You have to be in a book for that option to appear.]

Choose "Go To" and you'll get another dialog box that will enable you to choose (using your 5 way controller) Cover, Table of Contents, Beginning, Location.

Toggle over to Beginning, press the 5-way controller down, and there ya go.

What's "location"? Note the numbers at the bottom right hand corner of a book. That's the "page number". If you want to skip ahead til nearly the end, say for example of a mystery book, just type in a number about 300 less than the last page, and that'll take you to near the end.)

Now, another couple of plus. ; )

I'm a writer of science fiction - check out my novella, The Coldest Equations: The Labyrinth Makers, and the novel, The Coldest Equations: The People Out There. Fun stuff!

And what blogs should you subscribe to?

Well, improve your mind, try my science blogs.

Go to the Kindle Store and search on:
Volcano Seven (sunken treasure)
Seaborn (oceanography)
Star Trek Report (space exploration)
Miniscule Guide to the American Civil War

or just do a search on Volcano Seven and you'll see *all* my blogs!

1 comment:

  1. Thankyou! I ploughed my way all the way through the Kindle guide and no mention of how to do this! ya think Kindle!!

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