E-Reader: 9 Tips for the Amazon Kindle – format.at

• e-readers like the Amazon Kindle and the Tolino can accommodate a lot of reading material. With these tips you will be on e-pro.
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With an e-reader readers have their entire library in the jacket pocket , the battery often lasts for weeks. And with a few tricks, this will also documents and web content to take on trips

If you like schmökert traveling in good literature or its specialized library wants to have on hand at meetings, which must either kilos of paper tow -. Or he creates on an e-reader. The digital slates usually offer storage for thousands of books and benefit, as opposed to tablet PCs, from a so-called E-Ink display: Here one side pixels are reordered in each flip, the screen itself does not radiate – namely in can not colors are represented and for reading at night, you need a lamp; but that the device consumes very little power, and the eyes no longer have to strain when reading than by reading in a conventional paper-Buch.Doch the laptops can significantly more – the following tips provide an appropriate overview. Many suggestions here refer to the best-selling e-reader, the Amazon Kindle; but others can also be applied to products such as the Tolino of Thalia.

1 Battery save – and in time to load

The big advantage of e-readers over tablets is the long battery life: Under normal use, the device has enough juice for several weeks. Who wants to use complete this period, which should disable unnecessary energy guzzlers – for example, the wireless connection. Particular attention is on longer trips, such as long-haul flights, commanded While users to charge their phone every night, it is assumed unlimited runtime when e-readers – the more annoying it is when the device is already on strike shortly after departure. It is therefore recommended that the night before to check the battery level -., And to charge the device if necessary overnight

2 Kindle app – read everywhere

Amazon has developed a technology called “Whispersync”; so that the reading progress is synchronized in a book with the servers of Amazon. This can be read with the app for smartphones and tablet PCs in the right place on, if an e-reader is not at hand. Convenient for dull meetings: If it gets boring, it feigns the hustle and edit Excel spreadsheets and reading in truth “50 Shades of Grey”. Another advantage of the app compared to the E-Reader: Image or graphic-heavy magazines that have been subscribed to on Amazon, can be viewed in color – for example, the U.S. magazine “Forbes”

3. . Amazon Cloud Reader

Especially with e-readers with touch screen, it is advisable to mark in textbooks single digits and annotate. But how are accessed later in the office waiting to? Help desktop solutions such as App for Windows 8 or the Cloud Reader – incidentally also useful to the novel to read them in the office, the people have started on holiday

4. Send to Kindle

And how exciting content from the web come on the E-Reader? Here, Amazon has developed for its customers the “Send to Kindle”. With the browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox can be sent from the Web wirelessly to the Kindle with one click longer texts; establishing a program for the desktop files are transferred from the computer to the reader -. unless this is online

5 Send by e-mail, and convert

In addition, files can be transferred to the Kindle, by sending them to the device via email. For this purpose, the user gets Amazon own email address ending in “@ kindle.com”; the return address must be enabled on amazon.de – so prevents spam lands on the Kindle. Who rather impractical formats – such as PDF files – want to optimize for the Kindle, which writes the word “convert” (without quotation marks) in the subject of the email – Amazon then converts the document in the correct format

. 6 Management with Calibre

For optimum Managing the digital library is developed in Bangalore software “Calibre” is. In order books by title, author, genre or year of publication can be sort. In addition, the files can convert into that format that fit their own e-reader, and books can thus also be read on the desktop PC.

7 DIY e-books publish

And who got after reading pleasure, to cut the keys himself, who has in the ecosystem of e-reader easy game. Amateur authors can via “Kindle Direct Publishing”. their books for the Amazon Kindle Publishing by uploading the text as a Word file and the cover as an image file. The revenue is shared between the author and Amazon. For those who want to publish on other platforms, there are several publishers who have specialized in the sales of e-books. In German-speaking countries for example, offer bod.de and epubli.de to the book on paper to print and distribute an e-book – and claim for a portion of sales