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poohbear_nc · 02-17-2012, 09:39 AM

I have been a long time fan of O'Reilly's Missing Manual series of books - and have found them chock full of useful information that had significantly lowered my blood pressure in times past ....

until I read Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual

This was a real disappointment ... and I can say truthfully I learned only 1 thing after reading the entire thing. It is an extremely superficial "dumbed down" description of self-evident settings that reads more like a 300 page advertisement for Amazon. If you took all the little paragraphs from the Amazon Manage Your Kindle page and put them in a book ..... you guessed it. There is virtually no information on the Android OS ... only lots & lots of tips to help you buy more & more at Amazon. They did include a link to tested.com for the article on sideloading non-Amazon apps.
This is truly a pathetic "non-instructive" book that O'Reilly should be ashamed to publish.

The folks here at MobileRead have compiled vast amounts of truly useful information for the Fire - that should have been in this book!

02-17-2012, 09:39 AM	#1
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,648 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual - A Real Disappointment I have been a long time fan of O'Reilly's Missing Manual series of books - and have found them chock full of useful information that had significantly lowered my blood pressure in times past .... until I read Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual This was a real disappointment ... and I can say truthfully I learned only 1 thing after reading the entire thing. It is an extremely superficial "dumbed down" description of self-evident settings that reads more like a 300 page advertisement for Amazon. If you took all the little paragraphs from the Amazon Manage Your Kindle page and put them in a book ..... you guessed it. There is virtually no information on the Android OS ... only lots & lots of tips to help you buy more & more at Amazon. They did include a link to tested.com for the article on sideloading non-Amazon apps. This is truly a pathetic "non-instructive" book that O'Reilly should be ashamed to publish. The folks here at MobileRead have compiled vast amounts of truly useful information for the Fire - that should have been in this book!