Amazon Echo Show 5 & Echo Show 8 The Complete User Guide - Learn to Use Your Echo Show Like A Pro: Includes Alexa Skills, Tips and Tricks (Alexa & Echo Show Setup)

Great for beginners and well worth the money

A great guide to the ever popular Amazon Echo Show, The Amazon Echo Show: The Complete User Guide: Learn to Use Your Amazon Echo Show Like a Pro by C.J. Andersen is a great resource guide to anyone just learning to use their Amazon Echo Show. The book covers everything from simple features like the on and off button to how to sync the device to Smart House devices and troubleshooting. Although a lot of the information is repeated in multiple places throughout the book, the information in the book is simple to find and understand and includes resources on where to find the most up-to-date information about the Echo Show that upgrades every day that a book wouldn’t be able to keep up with. It is a handy resource if you own or are thinking of purchasing this device. The greatest strength of this resource book is by far the step by step and easy to understand instructions about how to sync other devices with the Echo Show as well as how to operate it. The book covers every device from music and books to syncing smart house features. There are several screenshots provided as well which helps to clarify where these features are. The book is divided up into sections so you can find what you are looking for easily as well. The author also did the legwork to find resources you can check to look for the latest features as they mention the device upgrades every day and there will be new things for you to learn to do that a print book couldn’t keep up with. The biggest drawback to the book for me was the repeated information throughout the book when I was reading it straight through. In all fairness, the author told us there would be repeat information and I understand that it was for the ease of being able to skip to a certain section to actually troubleshoot the device when you are actually using it but I still wish there was a better way to have divided up the chapters to save us from reading it through two to three times. Overall, this is a great resource book to review if you are using your Echo Show or thinking of purchasing one. It is very practical, easy to use and understand, and covers such a variety of topics thoroughly that it is easily worth the purchase. The author also mentioned that they would update the book as major adjustments were made to the Echo Show which is a win for everyone if they follow through but they also include resources that appear to be reliable for you to check for any immediate updates.

I’m not a very “techy” person. I don’t hate technology; rather I actually enjoy many of the new gadgets that are out there. The ones I have problems with are those that talk back to me and considering how much I argue with the Bluetooth lady in my car, I’m not sure how well Alexa and I would get along. My better half feels otherwise so that is how I found myself reading this guide about how to use the Amazon Echo Show and hoping that I can become boss over Alexa. Amazon Echo Show is honestly one of the most well written user guides that I have ever read. Mr. Andersen has managed to turn rather dry material into something that is easy to read and, for a technology guide, rather interesting. He starts from the beginning when you open the box of your new Amazon Echo Show and he writes about exactly what to expect and what should be included in the box. From there he gives very detailed instructions about how to set up the Echo. This is one of the things I liked about this guide. It is quite short, only one hundred and eleven pages on my tablet, but it is very detailed and organized. However, as detailed as it is, the instructions are still very easy to understand, no matter how technologically illiterate you may be.There are times when Mr. Andersen tends to veer off in a different direction that doesn’t always involve using the Echo. For example, he writes about the relationship between Amazon Echo and Google and YouTube. There is some correlation to how to use the Echo but it also doesn’t seem to be a necessity to have in the guide. For me though, I found all of the author’s tidbits quite interesting. There are lots of links that can be accessed straight from the digital copy which is quite convenient. There are also lots of pictures that will help the reader understand better the instructions that they are following. Finally, Mr. Andersen provides his email address so that if you still have any questions after reading the user guide you can email him. This shows me how much interest he takes in his readers. This is a wonderful user’s guide for all ages to read and well worth buying if and when you invest in the Echo Show.I read this in digital format and it worked well. The cover was bright and enticing.

I wanted to perform a very simple task, and that is to set up my iPhone calendar in the echo show 8 generation 2 so this is the first thing I looked up in the book. The book did not help me to perform this task. All the books said was to go to echo settings and link to calendar. But these steps were not displayed on the echo so the book was of no help. I am getting extraordinarily frustrated with the echo.

This book is a concise, step-by-step, easy to follow guide to setting up and making the best use of your new Amazon Echo Show. The book has guides to so many things the Echo Show can do, like personal assistant capabilities, smart home capabilities, and ebooks and audiobooks. The tone of this book is easy to follow, and it offers step by step guides to all of the things you can do with your new Echo Show. I found all of these sections helpful, and felt like I learned at least one new thing in each one. In particular, this book has a strong section on Skills, something I didn't even know existed on the Echo Show.I would recommend this book for people who just bought the Echo Show and want an overview about the features of their new device, but it can answer specific questions, too, if you have them. I think that older people or people who aren't very technologically savvy could especially benefit from this book.

The Echo 5 was purchased to help mom in a nursing home. This book should make that installation much easier to get the best results from my efforts since I will have moments to get familiar with and make it work so mom just has to ask to make it work.

I recently purchased his guide book to help me use an 8" and 5" show I just bought. It became quickly apparent that it was of limited use to a UK reader. Clearly amazon runs different software for their products targeted at different countries and I found myself unable to enact much of the advice or user guidance in the book as it is written for the USA and is completely full of how to access and use Alexa in America. The settings and contents are very different it would appear between different country devices and instructions and menu contents are very different. By the way American get a fuller experience with their show than uk users. Some very basic things are compatible but beyond that , not much use to me.

Why on earth sell an apparatus without User Instructions? This book? is digital but ( if you don't have Kindle) impossible to read.A PROPER book allows you to search through it at will, and flick from page to page. These things are suited to the fiction USELESS in a reference manual. Apparently, a paper one IS available, BUT they have the temerity to demand almost £10 for you to buy it: !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where else do you buy a piece of equipment which does not include User Instructions, thus making it USELESS????I cannot work my Echo Show 5. I don't want to return it. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO USE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

unfortunately this book is the same as all the other Alexa books I have read it is written for the US market and is not totally relevant to the UK other that that there is a lot of useful information in it

I think the book is pretty good for persons just starting out on these ‘Alexa’ devices. Maybe someone like me a (silver surfer), who sometimes can’t remember things, so it’s nice to be able to reference quickly.

A very factual a helpful book of instructions it goes into great detail and tells you how to do things with Alexa, I'm very pleased with it.