Tips & Tricks #5: Using the Save For Later List

Before I discovered the Try A Sample feature of the Kindle bookstore, the Save for Later list was my favorite feature. It’s a to-be-read list of the Kindle books you’re interested in. It’s incredibly easy to add books to the list, and equally as easy to find and purchase an item from your list.

To get started, make sure your wireless switch is turned on and navigate to the Kindle Store. Once there, find a book you’re interested in, but don’t want to purchase right now. On the book’s information page (where you see the image of the book in the upper left corner, with a description, reviews, the price, etc. below) you can find the Save for Later option on the right side of the screen. Use the scroll wheel to select Save for Later (just as you would select Buy if you were purchasing the item), and it will be added to your Save for Later list.

To get to your Save for Later list, select the Menu button with your scroll wheel from anywhere in the Kindle Store and choose “Save for Later” Items. All the books you have added to your Save for Later list will display just as books do in the Kindle Store. You can delete items or click through to the information page to purchase them.

An added featured of the Save for Later list is that books you have already added to that list will have the Save for Later menu option shaded out and changed to read “Saved for Later” so you don’t have to worry about accidentally adding the same book to your list multiple times.

UPDATE (3/10/09): Using the Save for Later list on Kindle 2 only changes slightly. There’s no wireless “switch” this time – you turn the wireless on and off via the Menu button from the Home screen. Once on a book’s page in the Kindle Store, you’ll navigate to “Save for Later” by using the five-way button on the Kindle 2 instead of the original Kindle’s scroll wheel. Otherwise, it’s the same process.