Forgot about turning Wi-fi off Jackie. Do you only have it on when you purchase a book? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:22 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Kindle Keyboard - How To Read A Book
Hi Alfred I would imagine a certain amount of battery power is being used, even when the unit is switched off. Things like turning off WiFi helps to conserve power, but will always use some because it has to remember bookmarks etc. So yes, it does turn off when you hear the stand-by message, but does use some power when in that mode. Kind Regards, Jackie Cairns -----Original Message-----From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alfred King Sent: 20 November 2012 12:18 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Kindle Keyboard - How To Read A Book Thanks Jackie I was following all your threads and those of the people you mention below and this is what helped me too to come to the decision to purchase. Just going through my mail now but not sure if anyone answered the question I asked yesterday in relation to KK going in to standby mode. If I have not physically turned it off and it goes in to standby is battery still being used? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:48 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Kindle Keyboard - How To Read A BookHi Alfred I am also very pleased with my KK. It took me some time to decide to buy as I didn't know if I would like listening to a book being read by synthetic speech. But it's more than tolerable, and gives an additional resource. It's thanks to George, Steve Griffiths and John Gallagher among others for explaining what is involved. I just wish Amazon would make all their Kindle models fully accessible to make the experience even more pleasing. Glad you are up and running. Kind Regards, Jackie Cairns -----Original Message----- From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alfred King Sent: 19 November 2012 14:33 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Kindle Keyboard - How To Read A Book Jackie, it was your excellent comments on this list some few weeks ago that persuaded me to go ahead and get the KK. I am delighted with my purchase, again thanks to yourself, as with NC10 and other items discussed on list. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 11:40 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Kindle Keyboard - How To Read A BookHi Alfred I'm quite new to this, but I'll do my best as people were very kind in helping me to be up and running with mine. If you arrow down to a book, press the centre of the small square to open it. Next, you need to turn on the TTS. Press the key to the right of the space bar, then arrow down I think four times until you hear "Turn on text-to-speech", and press the centre of the small square again to activate. Now your KK should start reading from the start of the book. To start or stop continuous reading, press the space bar. As a tip, I tend to flick the power switch to the right to turn off the device when I have finished reading. I don't come out of my book and back to the menu as it saves me having to turn on the TTS when I return to the KK for my next session. Your place in the book is held, either when you just put your KK into stand-by, or if you exit the book beforehand. But remember that if you exit your book and go back to the menu, you will need to turn on TTS when you return to your book. I would presume that if you are working with three different titles, your place in each will be remembered each time you open them. As I say Alfred, I am quite new to this, but I am really pleased I bought one. I had hung off for so long, wondering if I could listen to a TTS voice throughout a book. But there is a lot out there that isn't available in audio or Braille formats, so it has become very useful to have the KK. Good luck. Kind Regards, Jackie Cairns -----Original Message----- From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alfred King Sent: 19 November 2012 10:06 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Kindle Keyboard - How To Read A Book Hi All I have my Kindle keyboard up and running so to speak by having speech enabled and the 3 books I have purchased are there but sighted people, one a Kindle user, was unable to open one of the books yesterday for me to start reading. He put it down to not knowing how it worked with speech but I am not so sure. Would someone be so kind as to write me out step by step instructions as to how to choose one of my 3 books open it and start reading it. At this stage I am interested in the following, 1. Continuous reading but pausing when I aminterupted.# 2.Resuming my reading from pausing. 3 Navagating through the 3 books as I might like to be reading two or three of them at the same time. I presume where I stop, when I start that book again I will be in the same place as where I left off. 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