Unusual Uses of the Kindle

Obviously most of the time people use the Kindle for reading. However, the Kindle can be useful in other ways as well. For ideas I am going to list a few in this post but with a little creativity and imagination, you may come up with your own interesting means of taking advantage of this nifty little device.

• MP3 player. You may load your mp3 tracks via a USP cord to the device and you can use either the built-in speaker or plug in earphones to listen to the music.
  
  
• Cookbook. Put your Kindle in a ziploc bag and use it as a cookbook. You can load your own recipes on it, use its browser to navigate to allrecipes.com or purchase a cookbook in Kindle version.
  
  
• Craft Patterns. A friend of mine loads her knitting patterns on her Kindle to use as a resource while knitting.
  
  
• External Storage Device. You can load any files on the Kindle. Even if they will not show up on the screen, you can still use it as a temporary holding device while transferring files from one location to another. Use it like a flash or thumb drive.
  
  
• Shopping List. You can either create a text file on your computer with your shopping list and transfer it on your device. Or you may use an empty text file to which add notes as your shopping list.
  
  
• Editor. Load your articles or homework on the Kindle and use the text to speech feature to listen to it and to discover mistakes and typos that otherwise you may have missed.
  
  
• Check e-mail. It may not work with all e-mail accounts but with the built-in browser and Whispernet you can even check your e-mails.
  
  
• Phonebook. Create a text file with important phone numbers and load it on your Kindle via USP.
  
  
• Dictionary. The Kindle comes with a built-in dictionary. In fact, that's one of the features I love the most about this e-Reader. I frequently come across unfamiliar words while reading and this way I can easily look them up.
  
  
• Play Games. Kindle has Minesweeper loaded on it. Just press Alt+Shift+M.
  
  
• Picture Viewer. Create a folder called "Pictures" on the Kindle then organize your images there in subfolders. Subfolders will show up on the Kindle as books. When you click your "books" you will see your pictures. It's only black and white of course but they still look great.
  
  
  

Please comment with your own ideas! I'd love to hear them.