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Found a way to bring up the keyboard manually:
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/28045/is-there-any-way-to-manually-bring-up-the-keyboard

I installed Hacker's Keyboard, setting to "permanently notify" and open the keyboard on the Kindle HD by pulling down the notification bar and pressing on the notification.

Sorry if this is already known but I cannot open up the keyboard on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 inch while playing AGS games usiing teh latest build.  So I can't name saved games.  Am I doing something wrong?  Is there a way to open the keyboard directly using a shortcut kept in Favorites?  Thanks for your help!