Lately I’ve been noticing the Kindle ebook app on my Fire HD 10 keeps resetting likes it’s starting from scratch, and all the downloaded ebooks disappear and have to be redownload again. There are a number of similar reports of problems with the Kindle app on the Fire HD 10 over at Amazon’s Fire Tablets […]
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Kindle Indexing, Battery Drain, and Tips for Loading Lots of eBooks
If you get a new Kindle and load a bunch of ebooks onto it at once, don’t be alarmed if your Kindle suddenly starts running slowly or if the battery starts draining quickly. Whenever you add new books to a Kindle it has to index them so that you can quickly find things when running […]
How to Contact Support for Help with Kindle eBooks and Kindles Devices
The internet is quite strange sometimes. You’d never go up to some random person on the street and ask them why your Kindle ebook won’t download, yet it’s seemingly common practice to ask random people on the internet to help fix all manner of issues that come up. If you have a problem with a […]
How to Change Default Language on Kindles
Kindle ebook readers are sold all over the world and they support a number of languages for the menus, keyboards and dictionaries. Here’s the list of languages that Kindles support: English (U.S. and UK) German French (France, Canada) Italian Spanish (Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia) Portuguese (Brazil) Japanese Chinese (Simplified) Russian Dutch You can change […]
How to Avoid KFX eBooks on Kindle for PC and Mac
Earlier this year Amazon updated their Kindle for PC and Mac programs to add more accessibility features and support for enhanced formatting. In order to add the new features, they changed the format the programs support from AZW to KFX. This behind-the-scenes change doesn’t mean anything for most people, but for those that prefer to […]
How to Use Kindle Create to Convert Word Documents to Kindle eBooks (Video)
Kindle Create is a new tool that was recently released for Amazon’s Kindle direct publishing platform, along with the Kindle Create Add-in for Microsoft Word. Kindle Create is a free program designed to help transform a manuscript written in Microsoft Word or PDF format into a nicely-formatted Kindle ebook that’s ready to sell in the […]
Here’s a New Way to Quickly Send ePub eBooks to Your Kindle
I noticed a post at MobileRead about getting ePub ebooks on a Kindle without conversion. The post is somewhat misguided because it’s not really ePub that the Kindle is supporting and conversion is exactly what’s happening, but in a roundabout way it reveals a new quicker method to send DRM-free ePub ebooks to a Kindle […]
50 Tips & Tricks for Amazon Fire Tablets – 2017 Edition
A few years ago I posted a tips and tricks guide for Fire HD and HDX tablets, but a lot has changed since then, especially since Amazon upgraded to Fire OS 5, so I’ve gone through and updated the list to apply to the new 7th generation Fire HD 8 and 7-inch Fire tablets for […]