Deliver notes to Kindle from EBeam Whiteboards

Luidia, a company that designs and sells interactive electronic whiteboard solutions, is leveraging the display, portability and connectivity of Amazon’s Kindle to offer a new “Send to Kindle” feature that shoots whiteboard contents to an Amazon’s e-book reader.

The new “Send to Kindle” feature is part of Luidia’s eBeam software, which already allows for sending whiteboard information as a BMP, PDF or JPG file to a computer. This allows for review of important data when not at a computer, so there’s no long boot delay introduced — you simply flip your Kindle power on, enable the wireless radio and get to viewing what was on the whiteboard. The new “Send to Kindle” functionality supports both the Kindle 2 and the larger Kindle DX, which is targeted squarely at the education market. While this particular application is fairly specific, it shows the potential of devices as they become web connected.

Kindle, Kindle DX and/or Kindle Accessories with FREE Shipping

FREE Super Saver Shipping on Orders $25 and Over (some restrictions apply) in Kindle (Global Wireless), Kindle DX (U.S. Wireless) and/or Kindle Accessories.

How do I take advantage of FREE Super Saver Shipping?

1. Place Kindle (Global Wireless), Kindle DX (U.S. Wireless) and/or at least $25 of eligible Kindle Accessories in your Shopping Cart. (Eligible items will say “eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping …” next to their price.)

2. Proceed to checkout.

3. Ship your items to a single U.S. address.

4. Select “Group my items into as few shipments as possible” as your shipping preference.

5. Select Super Saver Shipping as your shipping speed. Once your items ship, your order will be delivered within 5-9 business days.

6. Place your order, and enjoy the FREE shipping!

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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.

Refurbished Kindle (6″ Display, U.S. Wireless) in stock, Refurbished Kindle DX not.

Unfortunately the Refurbished Kindle DX is out of stock, if you’re thinking to buy one, then you can buy a NEW Kindle DX for $489.

Refurbished Kindle (6″ Display, U.S. Wireless) is in stock. You can buy it today and receive it on Tuesday, December 22.

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.

Q&A: Can I share content with other Kindles?

YES. Books can be shared between Kindles, Kindle for PC, or iPhones that are registered to the same account. There may be limits on the number of devices (usually 6) that can simultaneously use a single book. Subscriptions to newspapers or periodicals cannot be shared on multiple devices.

Downloading to Multiple Devices (Kindle 2)

Content purchased from the Kindle Store can be downloaded to your Kindle, iPhone, or iPod touch as long as you’ve registered the device to the Amazon.com account that purchased the Kindle content. There is no limit on the number of times a title can be downloaded to a registered device, but there may be limits on the number of devices (usually 6) that can simultaneously use a single book.

That means you can download and read your books on any Kindle device you own as long you’ve registered each device to the Amazon.com account where your Kindle library is stored.

You can see the items in your Kindle library under Archived Items on your Kindle and send downloads to your registered Kindles from the “Your Orders” section of the Manage Your Kindle page.

Downloading to Multiple Devices (Kindle DX)

Content purchased from the Kindle Store can be downloaded to your Kindle, iPhone, or iPod touch as long as you’ve registered the device to the Amazon.com account that purchased the Kindle content. There is no limit on the number of times a title can be downloaded to a registered device, but there may be limits on the number of devices (usually 6) that can simultaneously use a single book.

That means you can download and read your books on any Kindle device you own as long you’ve registered each device to the Amazon.com account where your Kindle library is stored.

You can see the items in your Kindle library page.