Kindle Reader Progress bar little trick
Some Kindle books are formatted so that you can see chapter marks along the progress bar. I like this because it can help you see how much farther you have to go to the end of the chapter. Or for another example, I recently read an anthology of five novellas on my Kindle reader, and there was a mark for where each one started. So, I could see how far I was through each story.
Yesterday I started reading a three book bundle on my Kindle and was wishing there was something to mark each book on the progress bar so I could see how far through each book I am, rather than just the entire three books as a whole. Then I realized that we have a do-it-yourself solution available!
When you do a highlight or note in a book, it makes a little black dot on the progress bar. So I used the TOC to find the start of each book and did a note (i.e. “start of book 2″). Now there are dots on my progress bar marking where the second and third books start so I can easily see my progress in each individual book.
You could also do the same thing with chapters in a book if you wanted to take the time before you start reading. It’s easiest if the book has an active TOC so you can use it to jump to the start of each chapter, but if it doesn’t have one you can always do a search for on the words “chapter two”, “chapter three”, etc.
Just don’t use this method if you have your synching on because it will take you to that furthest point every time.
Hundreds of thousands of Kindle ebooks are available
Amazon isn’t the only place where you can get ebooks for your electronic Kindle reader. There are tons of places out there, here is a short list of the best ones:
- www.gutenberg.org Mostly classic ebooks or ebooks that no longer have copywrite
- www.freekindlebooks.org Mostly Gutenberg ebooks in a kindle reader ready format
- www.worldlibrary.net Almost half a million electronic books available, although it does require an $8.95 yearly subscription fee
- www.fictionwise.com Offers both unencrypted and encrypted electronic .mobi files
- www.webscriptions.net Mostly SiFi. Choose Kindle reader compatible for the download of your boks
- www.mnybks.net If you access it through the basic WebBrowser in Kindle, you can download the books directly.
- www.ccel.org Christian centered ebook works.
- Baen.com Free and very inexpensive SciFi e-books for your Kindle ereader
- Freetechbooks.com Great site for free tech e-books such as computer science, engineering and programming, textbooks and lecture notes.
- www.BookYards.com This is a relatively easy to navigate website, with plenty of free ebooks to download to your reader.
How To Use MobiPocket Creator To Convert PDF Books To Kindle Books
One way to convert an eBook in PDF format to a Kindle book is to use free software by MobiPocket. When you download MobiPocket Creator make sure you get the MobiPocket Creator Publisher edition, because it has the PDF option.
- Start MobiPocket Creator Publisher Edition
- From the main screen on the right choose “import from existing file” and choose PDF
- Select which files you want to import.
- Click On Import
- Then Select Build From The Top Menu
- This will create the file
- Then Select “open folder containing ebook” and click OK
- In this folder find the file with the .prc extension
- Copy the .prc file into the Kindle’s Document Folder
