7 Picture viewer

Use your Kindle to view photos.

Connect the Kindle to your PC. Click on the Kindle icon and create a folder called "photos". Transfer the photos you want into this folder (common formats like JPEG and Tiff are supported).

On the Kindle, the photos folder will appear in the menu just like a book. Clicking on it will display your pictures.

Use the next page button to go through your photos.

8 Fresh kindling

The Kindle does not just let you read e-books and other digital content from amazon.com. It also lets you view documents written in Microsoft Word or in such formats as HTML, RTF, PDF, GIF, JPEG, PNG and BMP.

All you need to do is to e-mail them to yourname@free.kindle.com after you have registered at www. amazon.com/manageyourkindle. In less than a minute, it promises to send you the converted files via e-mail. You can then transfer them to your Kindle using the USB cable.

TXT documents (and PDFs on the Kindle DX) may be stored directly in the Kindle without conversion.

The Kindle can also read digital books from other sources, including Project Gutenberg's mammoth catalogue of 30,000 free books. Download these books in Mobipocket format in order to transfer them to your Kindle without any conversion.

One million e-books are available from the Google Books website. All are in the public domain (read: free), but are in EPUB format. To make them readable on Kindle, first download the software from Calibre (calibre.kovidgoyal.net) to convert them.

9 Refreshing change

Sometimes, after the Kindle has been turned off for several weeks, there can be a residual "burn-in" effect from the last page you read.

To refresh the screen quickly, just press the menu button twice.

10 Mine sweeper

Press G (after Mine Sweeper has started) and it will take you to GoMoKu, a five-in-a-row game similar to tic-tac-toe.

This story was first published in The Straits Times Digital Life.

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