Amazon Announces FREE One-Day Shipping for Kindle Orders Placed on December 23

Amazon.com announced that even procrastinators can order Kindle and have it delivered for FREE in time for Christmas. That’s because Amazon is offering FREE One-Day Shipping on all Kindle orders for shipment in the continental United States made on Dec. 23. Amazon also announced today that Kindle recently broke another record with its best sales day in the history of Kindle. Kindle continues to be the #1 most wished for, most gifted, and bestselling product across all of Amazon. Kindle is available today with FREE Two-Day Shipping and starting tomorrow, Dec. 23, with FREE One-Day Shipping for $259 at www.amazon.com/kindle.

“It’s easy to get busy during the holidays, so we’ve decided to make it easy even for procrastinators to order Kindle, the #1 most wished for gift on Amazon, and get it delivered for free and in time for Christmas,” said Ian Freed, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. “With Kindle, you can give the gift of choosing over 390,000 books and more than 100 top newspapers and magazines from around the world and begin reading in less than 60 seconds.”

To take advantage of this offer on Dec. 23, customers simply add Kindle to their Shopping Cart and select One-Day Shipping.

Kindle is available today with FREE Two-Day Shipping and starting tomorrow, Dec. 23, with FREE One-Day Shipping for $259 at www.amazon.com/kindle.

Kindle How-To: Using Text-to-Speech in Kindle 2

Your Kindle can read aloud your books (where allowed by the rights holder), newspapers, magazines, blogs, and personal documents with the Kindle Experimental application, Text-to-Speech.

To turn on Text-to-Speech, follow these steps:

1. Press the Text key .



2. Move the 5-way down so that the “Text-to-Speech” option is underlined. Press the 5-way to select “turn on.” In a few moments, you will hear your content spoken aloud. You can either listen to it through the Kindle’s external speakers or plug in earphones into the headphone jack.
3. By default, content is spoken with a male voice, but using the 5-way, you can select a female speaking voice. You can also slow down or increase the rate of speech as well as pause or turn off Text-to-Speech.
4. While Text-to-Speech is playing, the screen will update to the corresponding page of text.

For PDF files and books which the rights holder does not allow Text-to-Speech to read aloud their content, then “Text-to-Speech” will be grayed and you will not be able to select it.

By default, Text-to-Speech starts reading at the beginning of the page currently displayed. To start reading at a particular spot, move the cursor where you’d like the reading to begin before starting Text-to-Speech.

Tip: You can also play or stop Text-to-Speech by holding down the Shift key and pressing the Symbol key . You can pause and resume Text-to-Speech by pressing the Spacebar.