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!
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