Facebook and Twitter

[zeppo]

I found mention of this feature in the Touch Users Guide. (p 18 and 20):

http://kindle.s3.amazonaws.com/Kindle_Touch_Users_Guide.pdf

but I'm still not quite sure what it does.

Will it send a comment about a passage I have read (perhaps what I have added as an annotation) or just send an excerpt from what I am reading, or both?

Whatever it does send, can it send via a 3G connection (on the Touch with 3G) when you don't have wifi access?

thanks!

[Ann in Arlington]

O.K. your link just went to the cover, but I think you're talking about the 'sharing' feature via FB or Twitter. 

You don't HAVE to do it.  BUT, when you get to the end of a book on an eInk Kindle -- like all the way to the end, after all the 'end matter' and stuff -- you'll see a page that says something like "rate and share". You can rate it and that will save your rating in "your collection" on Amazon -- which is useful for keeping track of whether you've already read something or not.  Or you can simply share that you finished it without a rating. 

Sharing means you have to have linked the Kindle to FB/Twitter -- that's done via settings.  The post just says you finished the book, though you can add to it if there is room (limited to the 140 characters).  When you go to FB you'll see the 'finished it' post with a link to the book on Amazon.  Not sure what happens on Twitter as I don't tweet.

If you select 'rate and share' then the star rating you gave it will be part of the message that's posted.

I think it's pretty cool and have had more than one of my friends comment on something I posted this way. . .either that they read it, or were going to or had been thinking about it or whatever. 

As this is an Amazon function, it will go whether you're connected by WiFi or 3G.  If you're not connected when you do it, it prompts you to turn wireless on.  I think if it can't get a connection right away, the post will just not go through.

Interestingly, it's not available if you read the book on the Fire.

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

Thanks for the explanation, Ann. I've seen some of those tweets and wondered what they were about.

Don't quote me on this, but I think I've seen tweets which indicate how much of the book they've finished in percentages.

[zeppo]

Thanks.  I don't know if this is an option on the Keyboard with 3G, but if it is I'll play around with it and test it out.  I'll have to set up a facebook so I can test it.  Right now I am not adding any wifi addresses to the Keyboard so that there will be no mistake about it that everything I am doing is via the 3G wireless.  But of course, the real questions when it comes to 3G are more for the Touch 3G models and their limited access. 

[Ann in Arlington]

Thanks.  I don't know if this is an option on the Keyboard with 3G, but if it is I'll play around with it and test it out.  I'll have to set up a facebook so I can test it.  Right now I am not adding any wifi addresses to the Keyboard so that there will be no mistake about it that everything I am doing is via the 3G wireless.  But of course, the real questions when it comes to 3G are more for the Touch 3G models and their limited access. 

It definitely works on the Keyboard model.

Why don't you want to use WiFi if there's a network available? 

[zeppo]

It definitely works on the Keyboard model.

Why don't you want to use WiFi if there's a network available?  

I'll definitely use the Wifi once I've tried out everything with 3G.  I want to see what the capabilities are with the Keyboards unlimited 3G and ultimately see what exactly I will miss out on with the Touch's 3G and what I won't.

Once I set up wifi, I assume it will auto default to wifi, and I don't want to have to bother getting out of range to test out my 3g, or have to go through steps to undo the wifi network acceptance.  It's no big deal to me if 3G gets 10 hours of charge time.  If I spend 10 hours on this thing before I can plug it into a charger at the end of the day, someone shoot me.