Guy Hart-Davis - Kindle Fire Geekery: 50 Insanely Cool Projects for Your Amazon Tablet

Kindle Fire Geekery

50 Insanely Cool Projects for Your Amazon Tablet

Guy Hart-Davis

Kindle Fire Geekery: 50 Insanely Cool Projects for Your Amazon Tablet

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About the Author

Guy Hart-Davis is the author of more than 80 computer books, including iPhone Geekery; How to Do Everything: iPhone 4S; How to Do Everything: iPod touch; How to Do Everything: iPod & iTunes, Sixth Edition; The Healthy PC, Second Edition; PC QuickSteps, Second Edition; How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office Word 2007; and How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office Excel 2007. His website is at www.ghdbooks.com.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Id like to thank the following people for their help with this book:

Roger Stewart for proposing and developing the book

Ryan Willard for handling the acquisitions end

Lisa McCoy for editing the manuscript with a light touch

Janet Walden for assisting with the production of the book

Sapna Rastogi for coordinating the production of the book

Cenveo Publisher Services for laying out the pages

Jack Lewis for creating the index

Introduction

Do you want to take your Kindle Fire to its limitsand then beyond them?

If so, this is the book for you.

This book shows you how to get the very most out of your Kindle Fire by using its built-in apps and features to the maxand adding more apps that will give you the extra features and functionality you crave.

What Does This Book Cover?

Heres what this book covers:

, Music Geekery, shows you how to get the most out of music on your Kindle Fire. First, you create top-quality music files from your CDs and put them on your Kindle Fire, then learn how to create digital files from your cassette tapes and records. You put your music on Amazons Cloud Drive so you can stream it, then learn how to convert songs from file formats your Kindle Fire cant play to formats it can play, how to listen to the radio on your Kindle Fire, and how to play podcasts on the tablet. After that, we focus on using your Kindle Fire as your home stereo and your car stereo.

DOUBLE GEEKERY

Why Is This Book Better than Other Kindle Fire Books?

Unlike other Kindle Fire books, this book assumes that you already know how to use your Kindle Firehow to read books, browse the Web, install apps from the Appstore, and so on. (If you dont know all this, pick up a copy of the book How to Do Everything: Kindle Fire, also from McGraw-Hill, which covers this stuff in detail.)

Kindle Fire Geekery assumes youre already an intermediate or advanced Kindle Fire userand that you want to become even more advanced. So it starts from that point, giving you a full books worth of the good stuff you actually want, instead of grinding through all the basics you already know and then ending with a few pages of advanced material.