Comments on: Symbol Keyboard Shortcuts gone from Kindle 2?

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:26:18 +0000

2.0.2

Does not work.

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:44:43 +0000

No, the keyboard shortcuts do not work on my K2 either. I have software version 2.0.3. And I agree that the keyboard on the DX appears to be almost useless, hard to type on and the lack of number keys makes it hard to go to location numbers. What were they thinking? Would love to know reactions of people who sold their K2 and bought a DX.

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:25:28 +0000

Those keyboard shortcuts NEVER worked on mine. I’ve been documenting shortcuts since I got my K2 and was surprised to see those shortcuts listed since they never worked for me.

I consider the lack of keyboard shortcuts for punctuation marks to be a serious shortcoming of the K2. Now that they’ve gotten rid of the (unshifted) numeric keys on the DX, well, that makes the keyboard even more useless. I think they’re trying to discourage web access as much as possible, so they’re crippling it for anything other than typing in a few keywords for searching in the store.

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:24:24 +0000

Yeah it looks like the shortcuts got sacked at at least 2.0.3. Anybody have the last version still who can try?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:57:37 +0000

2.0.3

Doesn’t work for me