Hi Russ, I too have been frustrated with the inability to organize my Kindle books on my iPad. When combined with my books from Audible, I have over 2000 of them and it is a nightmare to try to find one -since I am not particularly good at remembering titles or authors! All this is to say that I have found a wonderful app that has been extremely helpful. It is called BookCrawler and you can type or even dictate a book title into the program, push a button and it goes to Google to import pertinent information, such as keywords and ISBN number. Then you can add your own keywords, rate it, and indicate whether you have read it or not. It has been most helpful to me! Suzanne Sent from my iPad On May 21, 2013, at 9:15 AM, "Russ Kiehne" <russ94577@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Here's the thing I like about my Kindle Keyboard. I don't think this can be done with the Kindle app. I can organize my books by collection as shown below on my Kindle Keyboard screen. Showing All 5 Items By Collections Perry Mason (85) Hardy Boys (72) Western (90) Kindle User's Guide, 4th Ed. Amazon The New Oxford American Dictionary Oxford Dictionary of English Archived Items (55) THE rAA •r"' WORDS In Theaters September 74 Chck for details turns on wireless -----Original Message----- From: kb7uengene Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:10 AM To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Kindle Keyboard May Be Discontinued If you look at Kindle for PC, you'll notice that it has feature for feature pretty much exactly what is available on the Kindle keyboard for a sighted person. I'm not surprised at all that they may have discontinued it. In fact, I was surprised they kept it as long as they have. There's no reason why they can't get the same functionality of the Kindle keyboard into all the Kindle apps. I noticed in the announcement that the NFB posted a while back after the Kindle for iOS app was released, that they also wanted Amazon to continue to develop the hardware along with the apps for the blind community. But in my opinion, that's completely unrealistic of them to expect Amazon to continue to develop hardware for us when they can simply do it with software. And now that Amazon's instant video and music apps are out for iOS, there's no longer any reason to buy any of Amazon's hardware. I want to see Amazon add accessibility support to Kindle for Android and Kindle for Mac. And continue to develop all these different apps with more accessibility support to keep them in line with the Amazon hardware they produce and sell to sighted people. We stand a better chance of getting more functionality in the Kindle apps than we do with Kindle hardware. And Amazon is more likely to do it more quickly if we tell them that the apps are where we want them to put their energy. Hardware comes and goes, but apps are more fluid and tend to stick around for a very long time. Anyway that's just my opinion, for whatever it's worth. - Gene On May 20, 2013, at 11:12 AM, "Susan Lumpkin" <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Sorry, I meant to send this to Larry. I'm glad we've gotten our Kindle keyboard unit. Susan -----Original Message----- From: vi-kindle-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vi-kindle-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Goldfield Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:51 AM To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Kindle Keyboard May Be Discontinued As do I. I've sent my views to Amazon via their kindle-feedback@xxxxxxxxxx address and I encourage all of you to do the same. Until we have equally accessible replacements, this is quite a loss, especially for those not on the IOS platform. On 5/20/2013 11:40 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: > Well, I'll continue to use my Kindle Keyboard untill it stopps working. > > -----Original Message----- From: David Goldfield > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:03 AM > To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [vi-kindle] Kindle Keyboard May Be Discontinued > > Amazon has not officially confirmed this, but the Digital Reader reports > that our beloved KK has likely been pulled from Amazon's stock; see http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/05/17/did-amazon-kill-off-the-kindle- keyboard/#more-51470 > > > I went to Amazon's site and see that the KK is only available via > third-party sellers, the cheapest one currently going for around $99. > Am I surprised? Not really. I am assuming that the main reason for why > Amazon kept the KK around was due to its accessibility. However, we now > have a fairly accessible IOS app and, supposedly, the larger Fires have > some accessibility, which Amazon claims will make its way into the > smaller models. We'll see.