No Kindle Required – The Complete “Kindle for iPhone” User’s Guide/Unlock the “Lightning Web Navigator for iPhone & iPod Touch” (DRM-Free with Text-to-Speech Enabled, User-Friendly)
More than just a guide and introduction to the new, free, must-have Kindle for iPhone App, “No Kindle Required” also provides all that you need to unlock a dazzling new “service in a book,” the “Lightning Web Navigator for iPhone & iPod Touch.” For everything you will ever want to do with your Kindle for iPhone App, and some things you haven’t even thought of yet, bestselling Kindle guide author Stephen Windwalker walks you through each step in the clearest, most concise, easy to follow language
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll’s putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with
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The Good, the Unnecessary, and the Unknown,
This book has three main topics. If any one of them helps you, it’s worth the price.
The author has assembled the best set of web links for e-books I have ever encountered. First, there is a set of links into different parts of the Amazon Kindle store that makes searching and shopping easy. Jumping back and forth between this book and the iPhone’s Safari browser sounds clunky, but is easier that doing the same searches using the browser alone. And the links to free e-book web sites–most of which have nothing to do with the Kindle, by the way–are numerous and usefully organized. Both of these sets of links will save you time and money.
The main topic of the book–how to use the iPhone Kindle app–was reasonably well-written, complete, and seemed error-free. It also seemed unnecessary. I read Windwalker’s book about a week after downloading the Kindle app. Everything I read I had already figured out either from the app’s help file or just by using it. If you are able to purchase, download, and begin reading this book, you don’t really need it. Not for this section, anyway.
The book’s last section contains generous excerpts from the author’s book on the Kindle 2. I don’t have one and don’t anticipate getting one, so I only skimmed this material. No comments, good or bad.
Overall, I recommend buying this book if you plan to read books on your iPhone–or even if you don’t, but want a good set of links to free e-books. It’s well worth a buck. And your time.
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|This ebook actually makes my iPhone work better!,
This is so awesome! I set up the Kindle for iPhone App, downloaded this book, and now I can go directly to hundreds of websites without trying to type in the address with my thumbs. Ya gotta love it! Oh, yeah, the book also tells me everything I want to know about how to use the App.
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|Big Disappointment,
I’m glad this was only a 99-cent purchase. The description sounded like there were all kinds of features in the Kindle for iPhone app that were going to be revealed, but that was simply not the case! Granted, there are lots of weblinks to other sites that are reasonably well-organized, but anyone with any ability to navigate the web could come up with these links and not have to scroll through pages and pages of links, trying to find the right one. And if I have an iPhone, then why do I need all the pages on the Kindle? I don’t have a Kindle; that’s why I bought this “book”. I’m sorry, but I found this a waste of money. Glad it wasn’t much.
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|Kindle edition free…and not worth it,
“What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?” Someone might have thought to ask that of the compilers of this Kindle edition, which lacks any of the famed Tenniel illustrations, even though they’re all in the public domain and have been made available in many on-line versions. Worse, the compilers also omit Carroll’s opening poem, “All in the golden afternoon,” even though it’s an integral part of the book. One gets the feeling that the goal was to not make the free version truly complete, so that one would have to wind up purchasing one of the non-free editions for one’s Kindle — which is probably a better solution from the outset.
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|Classic Children’s Literature,
So, what’s a 47 year old doing reviewing a classic children’s book? Well, it occurred to me as I was looking through the available books on my Kindle, that many of the free ones (yes I’m quite open to free as an option) that there were many books that I assumed I knew because I had seen movies, seen summarized in some other form or simply because they were cultural icons and “everybody” knows these books.
Many I have indeed read and did read as I was younger. However, now with a Kindle and a commute, it seemed a perfect opportunity to address some of those elements lacking in my basic reading. It was in this spirit that I down loaded Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and read through it is a remarkably short period of time. Many of these free books on the Kindle, are in the public domain and have been available in text or PDF files for quite some time. A simple conversion in format is all that is required to make it available. The question I asked as I read the book, is does the experience of reading it in this format take away anything from the experience. Children’s Literature in particular is often about more than just the words on a page. Of course there are often illustrations, the physical book itself takes on dimensions that are bigger than usual. This adds to the experience of a child reading the book by themselves but in particular it adds to the experience of a child being read to who can then sit in a lap or look as the book as presented and share in the experience by learning to read or reinforcing reading skills.
So, for a aging kid who needs something to read to round out his cultural iconic missing links this worked just fine. However, for those seeking to have an experience with their kids in reading a classic piece of literature, I’d not recommend it in that venue.
As to the story itself, there’s little I can say. In some ways, it’s like reading a familiar story but in others it’s amazing how much can be lost or glossed over in the pop-cultural offerings that sprang from it. Reading this piece of classic literature gives you some insight not only into the time it came from, but also into the heart of childhood that is timeless and can be recaptured at least in part, if we’ll pause and exercise our imagination.
4 stars. Absolutely 5 stars as far as the story goes. Because this specifically addresses the Kindle edition, a drop of a star so that any considering reading this to their children from a kindle, consider what might be lost by not obtaining a more traditional copy complete with illustrations and the opportunity to share at a level one notch above what the Kindle offers in this context.
Perhaps something like this Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Take some time and look for what will work best for you and your intended audience.
bart breen
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|down the rabbit hole,
I forgot how wonderful a tale this is. It is written so well that the images almost jump off the page. Even as an adult I couldn’t help but to fall under Carroll’s spell.
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