[vi-kindle] Re: MY quick review of the Kindle Keyboard

  • From: "Russ Kiehne" <russ94577@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:42:38 -0700

The firmware did update. My kindle still has the old users guide Kindle User's Guide 3th Edition. I just downloaded Kindle User's Guide 4th Edition.azw and will be placing it on the Kindle.


-----Original Message----- From: Timothy Emmons
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:28 AM
To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: MY quick review of the Kindle Keyboard

That is cool Russ, glad you got your Kindle and hope you enjoy it as much as we all enjoy ours. Glad my instructions worked, you may need to run the update, it may not have updated the software recently to do the shift space but the key thing is you got the voice guide turned on and you got things going. I't squickly becoming my main reader for a lot of things but glad you got it going. If you have questions, make discovereies on anything and want or need to share, feel free to do so. Take care and happy reading. I'm sure everyone has sent links to plenty of free books to take advantage of, and I'll send a couple this afternoon as well. Enjoy and have fun. Sorry folks by the way for being out of the loop this weekend my wife was off work and we tend to sepnd a lot of quality time reading and enjoying eachother's company together when she's off so not trying to avoid anyone just been busy. Take care and talk to you guys soon.
On Aug 14, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote:

My Kindle Keyboard arrived by USPs yesterday. When I used shift plus space to turn on voice guide, nothing happened. I used the instructions Tim Emmons gave in his podcast. That got the voice guide turned on. My sighted friend came later in the day and setup wi-fi for me. After restarting the Kindle, it updated to the latest firmware. Now shift plus space works.

Using the Kindle users guide, I found I had more navigation options than I expected. I could navigate from page to page by pressing space to stop speech, Press back, use next or previous page and count to the page I want to move to, Press shift plus symbol to start speech. I could navigate by chapter to chapter by pressing space to stop speech, press back, use right or left arrow, press shift plus symbol to start speech. I was happy to see that Kindle speaks the status when moving from chapter to chapter.

I'm happy I made the move to buy a Kindle keyboard.




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