General Chat

Glad it worked :-D

Now a question of my own..

Under 'experimental' is Launch browser to connect to the internet.

Has anyone had any success with that? When ever I've tried, the text is so tiny, and the increase in font size to read it fails to hold.

I've also found it difficult to navigate with the buttons. :-0

Any tips please?

sorted, thanks to your advice - many thanks indeed - saved me a trip to Curry's today :-D <3

thanks for that - shall give it a go!!!

Ah - ha! The font problem!

Assuming we have the same sort....

Open the book you are reading

On the Kindle is a 'little house' (home) icon/button
To the immediate left of that is a key with horizonal bars on it - it just looks like lines of pretend text if you aren't using a magnifier. Press that.

2nd option on the list which appears is 'Change Font Size'. Scroll and select. Use the left or right hand toggles on the central key to choose the size which is likely to be the best for you.

You may need to have a couple of goes at changing the font to suit your preferences, and may have to change it again when you start another book with different print size.

I have now mastered my Kindle having got wifi!! one small problem, two of the books have such smallprint I canlt read them and canlt work out how to change the font size - shallpop into Curry's in Abergavenny tomorrow and I know they'll o it for me

I think it's amazing that you can be on your computer downloading a book and it appears on my Kindle which is upstairs on my bed - fantastic!!!

Scozz as you seem to be having problems downloading via WiFi - why not just download to your computer and transfer over via USB.

I live in Sth London, our Digital reception and WiFi are useless

I have to download all my books via USB (quite easy once you get the hang of it)

I have a smart phone which I cannot get online with and now the weather report which comes automatically loaded has gone. A complete waste of money on my part. Am hoping that Saturday I can pop down to Sis in Laws and get her hubby to try to get me back online.... Do wonder if the secondary school opposite and their tech stuff interferes with mine....

Oh to be more tech aware :-)

I see that the Kindle Fire is coming to the UK next month.

Son did the same with his ereader which is not a Kindle and got loads of books from America.

Amazon never check - they dont care- they get to sell more books!

(I just googled a New York company, and used their street address)


xxxx mick

good idea Mick. I lived in the US for a few years. I remember the Street & Suburb, but not the number.

Not a big black lie or a little white lie.........would that make it a grey lie?

A hint for Aussie Kindle users.

Change your home address to one in the US-

you will get access to a heck of a lot more books
that are not available as ebooks in Oz for copyright reasons.


xxxxx mick

I now get an email every day, notifying me of free books.

Been going mad getting them.

But! They must be floating around in cyber space for a while.

I ordered books every day this week, didn't get them until today. Weird.

It's been overcast since mid-week. On Friday evening we were on top of a hill - still no signal. I had no idea the weather would affect the Kindle so much.

For all the moaning we do here in Scotland re weather
I would hate to have no rain, would miss the lush green
of the grass and trees, also birds, bees and butterflies,
how terrible for her. There is never a happy medium
with the weather.

Emma

The woman across the road is a God botherer.

She always waves, but I'm sure the latest waves (since the Kindle dance) have been done with the two middle fingers underneath lol

If Kindle Dancing causes rain I must remember to take it to MumInLaw's, where she lives is a dustbowl, been no real rain there for years. Not even weeds are growing, and there are no birds. Awful.

<3 <3

Scozz, yes it is a case of finding the best place for the signal. In Tenerife I had to walk out to the end of the patio and wave the kindle over the wall, goodness knows what the locals thought. Sometimes have to do the same with the netbook, although that is on the wireless of the house where the owner of the apartment lives, not far away, the weather there affects the signal a lot.

Scozz good job you don't live in Britain, cause you
would get the blame for all the rain we're having re
the weird dancing you have been doing. :-D

Emma

I ordered more books this morning. 1 paid for, 5 free. They didn't get into my Kindle.

Pouring with rain (blue sky a couple of hours ago!), so I wasn't going for a walk up the driveway.

Our house is built on a very sloping block, facing up to the road, the house is 2+1/2 stories. So I went upstairs, Kindle in hand. Walked all over, no books. Went to our bedroom window, one block of the "wireless indicator" got black. Still no books. Opened the window... I have 6 new books to read. Magic!

So no more weird Pagan rituals/dancing at the top of the drive :-D

Sounds like I am pleased I got one with Wifi or I'd be joining ann :-D

I'm fick I am!!!!

aaaaaaaaa that'd be why then Sue lol. x