E-mail Books

You tried out your Kindle, saw its quirks, wanted to fix them then explore more? And there wasn't any really meaty place to tell you how? Email, audiobooks, PDFs, iTunes, travel, better covers? The manual, but who wants to read that? Blogs, but when you can find them, they're repetitive, not organized? A few bargain "authoritative" guides that after buying, don't really teach you much that's new? If you bought any of those, then you've got the hors d'oeuvres -- this book is your entree, dessert, and capuccino too.

For me, books need to stay interesting and entertaining, or I stop reading. It's also fun to be entertained while suddenly encountering new things. There wasn't a guide like that, so I wrote one. It's big, but never boring. If you only want one Kindle guide, this may do it for you.

It also gets updates, this is edition two, though it only is a month old. Updates are all free to you - the book even tells you how to download them

Click to download the free sample; browse the contents and index. I think you'll like it.

Regards,
Don

If you want something more businesslike, there's another guide in that style, equally complete. Search my last name in the Kindle store and you'll find it.

ps: Besides the table of contents, here's the alphabetic index to "I Got My Kindle"; you can't see it in the free sample, only in the full book:
ART. Your OWN ART
Accessorizing
All Kinds of Other Kindling
Audible books?; Amazon Audio books
Audio books Make Your Own
Blogs
Browsing
Content ..Not From Amazon?
Covers
Email
Find Documents
Food
FREE eBooks, eBook Sellers
GPS: how it really can work for you
Graphics on Kindle
Lighting
Music
Navigating, OFFLINE
Next Kindle Versions
News and Stocks
Now Now
PDFs to Kindle Still Fancier PDFs
Personalize YOUR Kindle
Protect Your Kindle
Power Up Sparingly
Read in Bed: Lights, Etc.
Restaurants, Gas, and GPS
RSS, Newspapers, Blogs?
SD Storage Cards Managing Content
Search Advanced and Web Searching
Shortcuts
Show Off Your Kindle. Got Bananas?
Slideshows
Slideshows
SMS Texting
Spills: Help! I Spilled My Drink!
Sports
Storage Card. Space Management
Texting Text to Speech
Web Browsing

I expected great things from this book but was sadly disappointed. The cost was way too high for the shortness of the book, and a lot of those pages were given over to humor when I would have preferred more solid information for my Kindle. Since buying this I've learned that the author has a "business" style book for the Kindle that might have been a better match for me, but I don't want to have to risk another $9.60 to find out.

This isn't a boring manual. It's smart very informative and laugh out loud funny. I have actually laughed out loud while reading this book. Buy this book and master your Kindle.

I've used some of Rebecca Morgan's time saving ideas and they work. Her language is clear, her ideas are new and fresh, and they really save time...and time, remember is money. So save lots of money...and time...with this book.

TurboTime motivates without intimidating. It's friendly, conversational style reduces using complex new technologies to easily accomplished steps that are sure to save you time. Morgan makes no assumptions about the reader. She provides encouragement and cites the benefits of learning to use new technologies - and then tells you exactly how to do this. TurboTime is an idea book for people who want to experiment with new skills. Morgan suggests simple and advanced ways to take advantage of opportunities to use technology to accomplish things that would be difficult to accomplish without it. TurboTime isn't dry or academic. Morgan presents personal examples of her own struggles to use technology as efficiently as possible. But she does not insist on particular brands and programs. Overall, it's a practical combination of illustrations and information, and is filled with easy-to-apply tips.

This publication hardly deserves to be called a book. It's 77 pages (including the index) and each page is only printed on one side. Also, most "chapters" are a little over a page, so almost half the pages in the book contain only a paragraph or two.

I'll forgive the fact that most of the products described in the book are outdated by now; the author warns the reader of this several times herself. But what I can't forgive is the extremely brief and painfully shallow descriptions the author gives to these products. Most of the information given is usually a phone number or address for the manufacturer of a product.

Consider this: the "chapter" on scanners is barely half a page, but the "chapter" on telephone headsets is a page and a half. Not only does this show where the focus of this book is, but it also shows how little is actually presented about real technologies.

The only reason I gave this pamphlet 2 stars instead of 1 is that it could be a nice intro for a complete novice... a complete novice who has had no contact with the professional business world or a computer. There's just so little here.

This book had some good common sense tips on writing emails. I was suprised at the attention paid to proper grammar. The grammar portion was very similar to an English class and writing essays.

Tom and Nancy Flynn have put together a short book that is fun to read. The included tips and ideas will certainly help improve the quality of your electronic messages and reduce the amount of e-clutter on the information superhighway. This book should be required reading for all email users.

This book is very basic when it comes to writing e-mail. Just like all of the Thompson series books it gives exercises for the reader to complete. Part 4, Polishing Your Cybermanners is one of the better chapters.

After seeing the Serbs demonized and caricatured in the news since NATO decided to have its war, it's refreshing to see a book like this come out showing that Serbia is not a nation of Milosevic clones. This public diary, by an apolitical Serbian cartoonist living outside of Belgrade, reveals the befuddlement of many Serbs at the NATO bombing, especially by those who oppose the current regime, and know that bombing will only make Milosevic stronger. The Terry Jones introduction discussing this is worth the price of the book itself.

The other thing that this will reveal to those who have only the evening news as a source for information on the Balkan conflict, is that the old Yugoslavia was not a particularly repressive place like other communist countries, but had a vibrant experimental theatre and experimental music community. When you read Zograf talking about the artistic scene in Serbia, you see that the evening news and NATO spokesperson's cartoon character of the entire Serbian population as a bunch of genocidal maniacs is nothing more than NATO's attempt to sell the war to a confused and largely ignorant public.

In addition, his accounts of what was targeted for bombing (a soybean warehouse? ) exposes the bombing for what it was: terror bombing intended to wear down the populace, not the smart bomb targeted military only bombing that we are being sold on the news. The only reason I did not give 5 stars was because I didn't think there were enough of his cartoons in it. Although the 'Smart, happy bombs' cartoon is brilliant.

Hopefully a sequel will emerge called "Bulletins from Baghdad"

"Bulletins from Serbia" is a collection of emails and cartoons (there aren't enough cartoons, its almost all emails) from a Serbian cartoonist to his friends and colleagues all around the world during the NATO bombing of Serbia.

In many ways, a book like this is better history than books by professional historians. This book isn't tainted by writing for a specific audience, its just one man's feelings about life during wartime and the little things that make life more difficult or more pleasurable in adverse circumstances.

There is one cartoon I liked in particular that shows all the Serbian citizens (those that were not to blame) celebrating the fact that friendly, smart bombs were being dropped on them and not mean, stupid bombs. This is obviously a jab at some of the new politically correct military jargon that smooths over the fact that people are being killed, infrastructure and beloved landmarks destroyed as well as ruining the lives of those that survive.

Even with all that, this book is actually unbiased. Zograf considers himself apolitical from what I can tell. He just wants the war to stop. He feels for the suffering people no matter what their race or religion. He mentions feeling terrible for innocent Albanians and Serbians. He even mentions feeling sorry for NATO pilots because of what they are having to do.

I think more than anything, the book provides a nice glimpse of the alienation and desperation that common people feel when their homeland is being destroyed. He hypothesizes that war doesn't punish the guilty it only punishes the innocent. (i.e. how approval ratings of the different sides soared: Clinton, Milosovich, and KLA leaders.)

At 96 pages, this short little collection is a good read. Highly recommended for an alternative view of current events.

Like many of us running small businesses, I have no choice but to come up with ads, brochures, press releases, etc. myself. This book gives me a systematic way of doing so, and I credit it with saving me a lot of money in missteps. If you follow the guidelines and checklists carefully, you will probably produce advertising and promotional material that at the very least avoids being amateurish, and will probably sell some products. I like that it concisely gives an overview over each of the areas of advertising and promotion. It explains insider terms without being condescending. Any Gripes? If I could afford the "test" runs of 5000 mailing pieces before I made my "real" mailing of many times that, I wouldn't be reading this book now would I?! But I am probably making excuses for not following their advice on testing advertising, and would be better off if I followed it. The book has been a great help in building my business, and I consult it frequently.

This book holds your hand every step of the way, The information is well presented and helpful.

This book is quite good, if you need to set up guidelines, policies & best practices in any type of business. Whelan gives good advice on information management, security and electronic communication.

This book is quite good, if you need to set up guidelines, policies & best practices in any type of business. Whelan gives good advice on information management, security and electronic communication.

I purchased the books for use by my team and they enjoyed using the books to improve the impact of their messages. We communicate daily via email and at times it is the only way we can communicate so as you can imagine, our email has to be precise and informative. I highly recommend this book for those new to e communicating or for those of us who never really knew there were rules... Also a big bonus is there is a section on grammar and how to communicate effectively while maintaing good grammar!

This book is good mostly for people who want to improve their writing skills. It doesn't matter too much if they are going to write an email or a fax, because the book covers just some email features.

If you think you do need a guide in writing style and grammar, and you send messages by email frequently, you'd like this book.

If you want a book with the "dos and don'ts" for email messages, keep searching, please.

As a web developer, I recently needed a good reference on programming for Exchange that went beyond the information I could dig up on Microsoft's various web sites, and as the local bookstore had this one in stock, I decided to give it a try.

The book does contain a reasonable overview of the technologies used when programming for Exchange 2000 (and subsequently 2003), including CDOEX / EXM / WF, WebDAV, ActiveDirectory, and such; however, most of the chapters tend to be about a third as long as I'd expect and give only cursory examples and often only the names of methods and properties used without any real descriptions.

Overall, although the book did give me a good introduction to technologies that have changed significantly over the past few years--CDO 1.2 and CDONTS users will find CDOEX and WebDAV, etc. rather confusing at first rather than familiar--I found that I had to resort back to MSDN and other online sources for most of the real information I needed. With that said, I don't feel the book's cost is justified; I'd prefer a true reference rather than a simple overview.

Outstanding coverage of all aspects of Exchange Server 2000. I bought the book because I needed to know not only how to program with Web Storage System (WSS) forms, but also Active Directory. This book covered both without the need to buy two books. It covers virtually everything having to do with programming on Exchange Server 2000 with great examples. The author clearly demonstrated that he knows the topic inside and out. I highly recommend buying this book!

I didn't quite know what to expect from a story written using an e-mail format. It turned out to be quite interesting and easy to follow. I felt like I was sharing the pastor's experiences as he shared his new church and community with his missionary brother through the e-mails. Well, it isn't exactly a new church or community, the brothers grew up there, it is just a very different perspective now that the writer is the pastor of his old church. Many situations are shared, and dealt with, and this unique format had me feeling like I was right in Little River with everyone in the story. It isn't just a "feel-good" story, however, there is some suspense in the story as well. I truly enjoyed this book, and I think I would like to see the author deal with the situation the missionary brother is in, as well. See, we only get to read the pastor's e-mails and stories, but not the missionary brother's e-mails, so that has me wondering about the stories happening on the other end of the computer. All-in-all, I recommend this book.

--- reviewed by Tammy Moore for Christian Bookshelf

This isn't the cheapest calendar for your Kindle, but it IS the one done right. Everything you can do on a calendar for the Kindle is all here. --You get a handy daily notepad - which is a place to use for any kind of notes, including AM, PM, and evening appointments, or your daily journal. Or just use it to keep track of the e-books you've read or want to read.
--Then, you get 12 monthly calendars, efficiently formatted, for each of the next 12 months. You can insert a note or notes list under each month, if you choose.
--Then you also get a 3 year calendar 2007 through 2009 - again with space for notes.

Added 10/3/08: The latest 10/03/08 update, online now, though it's description still isn't, added some over-the-top extras: holidays; access to Yahoo and Gmail online calendars using Kindle's browser; instant direct access to your Comcast, Gmail, and Yahoo email; AOL and MSN mail forwarding; and SMS outbound messaging and driving directions -- all from this little calendar.

Download the free sample, if you like.. Notice there are no cute titles or embedded pictures; nothing you have to page past, or that isn't needed for instant functionality. (Because Amazon's sample is limited to the first 2 pages, all you'll sample is part of daily journal; not the monthly, not the yearly calendars, and not the very complete help pages on Kindle notes .. and the jumplinks to the sections and detailed appendix don't work as they do in the full version. but hey, it's free)

Better yet, just buy the whole thing. If you decide you don't like it, or really prefer to buy a sailboat, Amazon lets you return it any time within 7 days (in the store click kindle support, then on the right, return item). And if you do like it but have a suggested improvement, do a little review here and we may add it; then you can do a free re-download



enjoy your kindling!



-don ursem (PS: search my name to see other products in the Kindle store; I think you'll see more things you like)