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KINDLE USER’S GUIDE 4th EDITION

Table of Contents

WELCOME 8

CHAPTER 1: Getting Started with Your Kindle 18

1.1 Views of Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Top View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

1.2 Getting Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Using the Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Using the Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

The Application Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

1.3 Entering Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Lowercase and Uppercase Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Numbers, Punctuation, and Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

1.4 Screen Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

1.5 Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Whispernet Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Battery Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Activity Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

CHAPTER 2: Getting to Know Kindle Content 32

2.1 The Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Home Screen Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Show Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Sort Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

The Home Screen Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

2.2 Managing Your Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Removing Kindle Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

More about Managing Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

International Wireless Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

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CHAPTER 3: Reading on Kindle 43

3.1 Types of Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Newspapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Magazines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Blogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Personal Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Background Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

3.2 Content Formatting on Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Progress Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Changing the Text Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Adjusting the Number of Words per Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Increasing the Size of a Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

3.3 Moving from Place to Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using the Menu to Get Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Navigating within a Periodical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Selecting Internal Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Viewing a Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Reading Across Multiple Kindles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

3.4 Looking Up Deﬁnitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

The Lookup Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

3.5 Annotations and Clippings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Using Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Using Clippings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

3.6 Reading PDF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

3.7 Listening to Audio Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Background Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Text-to-Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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CHAPTER 4: Searching on Kindle 74

4.1 Introduction to Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Types of Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Performing a Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

4.2 Search Results Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Search Results for a Speciﬁc Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Search Results for a Deﬁnition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

4.3 Performing Remote Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Searching Wikipedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Searching the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Searching the Kindle Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

CHAPTER 5: The Kindle Store 82

5.1 Getting Started at the Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

Connecting to the Kindle Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

5.2 Kindle Store Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

The Kindle Storefront . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

The Store Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Browsing the Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85

Getting the Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Saving Items for Later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

5.3 Recommendations, Reviews, and Ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Recommended for You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Looking Up Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Writing Your Own Ratings and Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Entering a Rating and Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91

5.4 Making Purchases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Trying a Sample Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Buying Your Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Returning an Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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CHAPTER 6: Accessing the Web 93

6.1 Using Basic Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93

Entering a URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using Bookmarks and Adding Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using Next Page and Previous Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Selecting Links, Buttons, and Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Using History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97

The Basic Web Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

6.2 Other Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98

Text Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Downloading Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Basic Web Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

CHAPTER 7: Settings and Experimental 101

7.1 Adjusting Your Kindle Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Registering or Deregistering Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

Personalizing Your Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Choosing Your Primary Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Changing Automatic Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

The Settings Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

7.2 Experimental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

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CHAPTER 8: Kindle and Your Computer 108

8.1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Making the Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

8.2 Transferring Files When Whispernet is Unavailable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Managing Your Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Transferring Your Clippings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

8.3 Converting and Transferring Your Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Supported Formats for Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Sending Your Documents for Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

8.4 Audiobooks and MP3s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Audiobooks from Audible.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Audiobook Formats for Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Transferring MP3s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

CHAPTER 9: Your Kindle and Amazon.com 115

9.1 Shopping for Kindle Content on Amazon.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Browsing the Kindle Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Searching the Kindle Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Getting the Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Ordering Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

9.2 Managing Your Kindle on Amazon.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Managing Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Managing Your Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Downloading Content from Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

9.3 Contacting Kindle Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

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CHAPTER 10: Migrating Content to Your New Kindle 120

10.1 Transferring Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

10.2 Transferring Periodical Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

10.3 Transferring Personal Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

10.4 Transferring Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

10.5 Transferring MP3s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

CHAPTER 11: Troubleshooting 125

APPENDIX 130

Safety and compliance Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Servicing Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Headphone Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Compliance Information for Kindle Users Outside the US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

UL Certiﬁcation Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Product Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

KINDLE LICENSE AGREEMENT AND TERMS OF USE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Wireless Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Digital Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

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Welcome to

Thank you for purchasing Amazon Kindle. You are reading the Welcome section of the Kindle User’s Guide. This section provides an overview of Kindle and highlights a few

basic features so you can start reading as quickly as possible.

You can leave this guide at any time by pressing the Home button on your Kindle. To turn to the next page, press one of the Next Page buttons.

If your Kindle was a gift, you will need to register your device. Please look at the

Getting Started instructions that came with your Kindle for information on registering

your device.

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Congratulations!

You are reading on your new Kindle.

If you haven’t done so already, please follow the Getting Started instructions that came with your Kindle and plug in your Kindle to charge the battery. The charge indicator light on the bottom edge of your Kindle turns yellow and a lightning bolt appears on the battery icon at the top of the display. Charging the battery fully should take less than three hours and you can continue reading while it charges.

Tip: The charge indicator light will turn green when the battery is fully charged.

If you prefer to read the Kindle User’s Guide side-by-side with the device, you can download and print a PDF copy of the Kindle User’s Guide at:

http://www.amazon.com/kindledocuments

Getting Around

You navigate Kindle using the 5-way controller; the Home, Menu, Back, and

Next/Previous Page buttons; and the keyboard:

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To select a particular item such as a menu option or a speciﬁc word in your reading

material, move the 5-way controller up, down, left, or right to highlight your choice and then press to select.

You can press the Next or Previous Page buttons to move forward or backward in your

reading material and press the Back button to retrace your steps on your Kindle. Use the keyboard to type words or phrases when searching your reading material or items in the Kindle Store. You can also use the keyboard to create notes while reading. All of these are covered in more detail later in this guide.

Easy-to-Read Display

Kindle uses a high-resolution display technology called electronic paper. It works using ink just like books and newspapers, but it displays the ink particles electronically.

The page ﬂash you see when you turn the page is part of the ink placement process.

The electronic paper display is reﬂective, which means unlike most displays, you can

read it clearly even in bright sunlight. Also, electronic paper does not need power to hold the ink in place, which extends your Kindle’s battery life.

Wireless Access with Whispernet

Using the wireless Amazon Whispernet service, Amazon delivers content to your

Kindle whenever and wherever you want it, within the wireless coverage area, using the same technology as a cell phone. By default, your Kindle ships with Whispernet already turned on. To turn Whispernet on or off, press the Menu button, move the 5-way controller up to underline “Turn Wireless On/Off,” and then press the 5-way.

Your Choice of Text Size

To optimize your reading experience, Kindle provides a quick way to adjust the size of

the reading text among six sizes.

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To try it now, press the Text key , move the 5-way controller to choose the size you

prefer and press the 5-way to select. The text changes to the new size. Repeat the same steps to change the text size back or to change it to a size comfortable for you to read.

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Your Choice of Number of Words per Line

You can also change the number of words per line in the book or periodical you are

currently reading. Press the Text key , move the 5-way controller to choose the number of words per line you prefer and press the 5-way to select. This changes the width of the margins. You may ﬁnd you read faster with fewer words per line. Experiment to see what works best for you.

Adjust Screen Rotation

The Kindle screen image can be rotated so you can see the entire width of a web page

or magnify the page of a PDF ﬁle. You can lock your Kindle screen to a portrait or landscape orientation to ﬁt your reading position. Press the Text key , then move the 5-way controller to select the screen rotation you want. Press the 5-way to select.

Read PDF Files

Kindle can display a PDF document without losing the formatting of the original ﬁle.

Just drag PDF ﬁles over USB or e-mail them to your dedicated Kindle e-mail address

(found on the Settings page on Kindle or the Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon.

com). We will wirelessly deliver the original ﬁle directly to your Kindle via Whispernet for a fee. For details, click on the “Learn more” link on the “Your orders and individual charges” section of your Manage Your Kindle page for your Kindle on Amazon.com.

Let Kindle Read to You

You can also choose to turn on the experimental application, Text-to-Speech, which

will read aloud your books (where allowed by the rights holder), newspapers, blogs, and personal documents. You can either listen through your Kindle’s external speakers or plug in earphones into the headphone jack. While Text-to-Speech is playing, the screen will turn the pages automatically so you can follow along while the audio is playing. You have the choice of hearing your content spoken with a male or female

voice and can also further optimize the listening experience by slowing down or

increasing the rate of speech.

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Look It Up

Your Kindle includes The New Oxford American Dictionary. You can easily look up

a particular word without leaving the content. Simply use the 5-way controller to navigate the cursor in front of the word you want deﬁned. A deﬁnition of the word appears at the bottom of the screen. To view the full deﬁnition, press the Return key on the keyboard. To return to the text you were reading, press the Back button.

Take It All with You

Although Kindle is about the size of a paperback book, it can store over a thousand

digital books, newspapers, blogs, and magazines, which are referred to collectively as “content” throughout this guide. A copy of all your books and recent issues of newspapers and magazines purchased from the Kindle Store are kept on Amazon.com.

To open content on your Kindle, press the Home button. This displays a list of the

content on your Kindle. Move the 5-way controller up or down to underline the item you want to open and then press the 5-way to open the item. To delete content on your Kindle, move the 5-way controller up or down to underline the item you want to

delete. Move the 5-way to the left and then press the 5-way to complete the removal

of the item.

To move previously deleted content from Amazon.com back to your Kindle,

Whispernet must be on. From Home, select “Archived Items.” This shows all of the

content stored at Amazon.com. Underline the item you want to move back to your

Kindle and move the 5-way to the right and then press the 5-way to start the transfer.

In under a minute, the item re-downloads into your Kindle and appears in the list of

content in Home.

Shop Anytime, Anywhere

If you have Whispernet on and you select “Shop in Kindle Store” from any menu,

Kindle connects you to a broad offering of reading material including books,

newspapers, blogs, and magazines. You can browse by category or check out the

latest bestsellers, new and noteworthy items, or your personalized recommendations.

You can see details about an item, read customer reviews, and even download free

samples of books you are interested in. If you want to buy an item, Kindle uses secure Amazon 1-Click and then Whispernet delivers the item to your Kindle generally in

under a minute.

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Automatic Delivery

Since Kindle connects to the Whispernet network, we deliver your favorite periodicals

over the air to your device as soon as they are published, often before they are even

available in print. For example, if you subscribe to the Kindle edition of The New

York Times, the latest edition is wirelessly delivered overnight so you can read it each

morning. Your favorite periodicals follow you wherever you go in Whispernet’s broad

coverage area, whether you are at home or on the road.

Peruse Your Periodicals

Just as you would thumb through a physical newspaper or magazine to locate an

article of interest, your Kindle supplies you with navigation shortcuts so that you can

quickly zero in on an article of interest. By moving the 5-way controller right or left you can advance to the next or previous article and pushing the 5-way brings up the

periodical’s section list.

Search Your World

While you are in Home, the Kindle Store, or reading content, you can use your Kindle’s

search feature. From the keyboard, begin typing what you’d like to search for and then

using the 5-way controller, select the range of your search. If you begin your search

while in Home or with open content, you have the option to search for that item in

all of your books, newspapers, blogs, personal documents, and annotations. You

also have the option to focus your search to the built-in dictionary, the Kindle Store,

Wikipedia, and the Web.

Clip Your Favorite Passages

Have you ever been reading a book or a newspaper and wanted to clip and save

a few words to refer to later? With Kindle, simply select “Add a Note or Highlight”

from the menu and use the 5-way to highlight the content you want to clip and then

press the 5-way to save your selection. The clipping is added to a ﬁle in Home called

“My Clippings.” You can review your clippings later, search for words or terms you

clipped, and transfer the “My Clippings” ﬁle to your computer. This is a great way to

capture your favorite quotations to share with others.

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Bookmark Your Reading

Kindle automatically saves your place in whatever book you are reading, but you

can also add a bookmark to any page by pressing the Menu button and selecting

“Add a Bookmark.” You can see that the upper right corner of the page is dog-eared.

Kindle stores all your bookmarks for the current content in your annotations.

You can view them at any time by pressing the Menu button and selecting

“My Notes & Marks.”

Add Your Own Notes

Do you like to take notes and make comments while reading? You can add notes

to any of the content on Kindle. Amazon automatically stores all of your book

annotations in the “My Clippings” ﬁle and backs them up on Amazon servers so they

will not be lost.

As an example, this sentence is highlighted and has a note attached as indicated

by the superscripted number one to the right of this text.1 Using the 5-way controller,

move the cursor over the notation number to see the note. To add your own note,

move the cursor to the word where you want to add your thoughts, and begin typing your note. Then use the 5-way again to highlight the “save note” button onscreen and

press the 5-way to select. You can later view, edit, or remove a note, or see all of your

annotations by pressing the Menu button and selecting “My Notes & Marks.”

Stay in Sync

Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your reading location across your

Kindle(s) and your iPhone. Now you can read a few pages on your iPhone and pick

up right where you left off when you return to your Kindle.

Convert Your Own Documents

In addition to all of the great reading material you can get from the Kindle Store, Amazon can also convert your own documents so you can read them on Kindle.

You can e-mail Microsoft Word, TXT, HTML, RTF, or image ﬁles like JPEGs and GIFs

to your dedicated Kindle e-mail address (found on the Settings page on Kindle or the

Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon.com). We will convert the document into Kindle

format and wirelessly provide it directly to your Kindle via Whispernet for a fee or

back to your computer for free. If you e-mail a PDF to your Kindle, it will be sent to your device with no conversion.

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Learning More

This ends your brief introduction to just some of the capabilities on Kindle. The chapters that follow give a more complete overview of these and other features.

Remember, you can always search on a particular feature or learn more about

how to do a particular task by opening this guide and typing on the keyboard to

activate Search.

The Table of Contents for the Kindle User’s Guide shows you all of the topics covered

in this guide. You can get to the table of contents by pressing the Menu button from

any page. Move the 5-way down until you underline “Table of Contents” and press the

5-way to go to it.

You can also navigate by clicking an underlined word or words like the “Table of

Contents” above. Underlined words indicate a link to somewhere else in the material you are reading, like a footnote, a chapter, or a web site. In the example above, when you navigate the 5-way controller over one of the underlined words, a hand icon

will appear. Pressing the 5-way will take you to the beginning of the table of contents.

Press the Back button to go back to where you were reading.

If you bought your Kindle with your Amazon account, it is already registered with your

account information and you are ready to go. When you go to the Home screen, check

the top left corner of the screen to see if your Amazon name (the same one you see

when you are shopping on Amazon.com) is shown. If it says “My Kindle” instead of your Amazon account name, you need to register your Kindle. To register, ﬁrst press

Home to display the Home screen and then press the Menu button. Select “Settings”

and then select “register” on the page that appears to enter your Amazon user name

and password. If your Amazon user name or password contains characters not present

on the Kindle keyboard, press the Symbol key on the bottom of the keyboard to

see a menu of the extended characters and use the 5-way to select the character you

require. Alternatively, you can register your Kindle by visiting the Manage Your Kindle

page on Amazon.com at: http://www.amazon.com/manageyourkindle

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You can leave the Kindle User’s Guide, or any item you are reading, at any time by

pressing the Home button. If you are done reading, you can put your Kindle to sleep

by sliding and releasing the power button located at the top of your Kindle (you wake

up Kindle the same way). Sleeping your Kindle will extend battery life and also lock

all of the keys and buttons so you don’t inadvertently press one while not using your

Kindle. When your Kindle is asleep, you will see an image on the screen. To turn off your Kindle completely, slide and hold the power switch for four seconds, then release.

The Kindle screen will blank and the device will turn off. If you ever need assistance,

you can use the Web or your telephone to contact us. See Chapter 9 for all of the

Kindle Support contact options.

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CHAPTER 1: Getting Started with Your Kindle

In the Welcome chapter of the Kindle User’s Guide, you read about many of the things you can do with your Kindle. This chapter reviews all of the physical features of Kindle

and covers the basics of using the Kindle buttons, menus, and keyboard.

1.1 Views of Kindle

FRONT VIEW

The front of your Kindle contains the screen the keyboard, and the navigation controls.

These features are illustrated below and explained in the list that follows.

Button

Next Page Button

Keyboard

Volume Controls

Home Button

Next Page Button

Menu Button

5-Way Controller

Back Button

Text Key

Symbol Key

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Volume controls — controls the headphone or speaker volume for audiobooks, background music, and text-to-speech.

Previous Page button — takes you to the previous page in your reading material.

Home button — shows content stored on your Kindle as well as content archived

at Amazon.

Next Page button — takes you to the next page in your reading material. To accommodate different ways of holding the Kindle, there is a Next Page button on both sides.

Menu button — displays application and navigation choices that are related to the

screen you are viewing.

5-way controller — selects an item or action when pressed down. Moves the

on-screen highlight or cursor up and down when moved up and down.

Moves the on-screen highlight or cursor side-to-side when moved left or right.

Holding the 5-way controller up or down without releasing it accelerates the cursor

movement, making it faster to navigate through lists or text.

Keyboard — use to enter search terms, notes in your content, URLs for Web sites, etc.

Back button — retraces your steps on Kindle just like the back button on a web

browser. For example, you can follow a link in a book and then press the Back button

to return to your place.

Symbol key — presents a menu of punctuation marks and symbols. Move the

5-way controller to select the desired symbol and press the 5-way to select.

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Text key — adjusts font size and number of words per line to suit your reading

preference. Also allows you to turn on/off Text-to-Speech and to change the screen

rotation settings.

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BACK VIEW

The back of your Kindle contains stereo speakers for audio content.

Speaker

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TOP VIEW

Power Switch

Power switch — puts your Kindle to sleep, wakes it up, and turns your Kindle on or off. To put your Kindle to sleep, slide and release the power switch; a full screen image appears on the display. While your Kindle is asleep, other keys and buttons are locked so that you don’t accidentally change the place in your reading. To turn your Kindle off, slide and hold the power switch for four seconds until the screen goes blank and then release. To wake up or turn on your Kindle, slide and release the power switch again.

If your Kindle does not power on or is unresponsive during use, try resetting the device by disconnecting your Kindle from any power source, and then sliding and holding the power switch for 15 seconds before releasing.

Tip: Your Kindle will also go to sleep by itself after ten minutes if you are not using

it. If your Kindle had wireless on prior to going to sleep, it will continue to receive your regularly scheduled subscriptions while in sleep.

Headphone Jack

Headphone jack — plug in headphones to listen to an audiobook, background music, or content read aloud through text-to-speech. Attaching headphones turns off the built-in speakers.

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BOTTOM VIEW

The bottom of your Kindle contains the charge indicator light and a micro-USB port.

Charge

Indicator

USB/Power Port

Light

Micro-USB/power port — attach the USB cord that came with your Kindle into the micro-USB/power port and into the Kindle power adapter*. Plug the adapter into

a U.S.-compatible electrical outlet to charge the Kindle battery. You can also charge

your Kindle by detaching the USB cord from the power adapter and connecting it to a computer’s USB port or powered USB hub. The charging status light will turn yellow, indicating that the battery is charging; you can continue to use your Kindle while it charges. A green light indicates that the battery is fully charged.

Check to make sure the power adapter is not covered by anything that could cause it to overheat. If the charge indicator light does not light up, make sure that the USB cable is fully inserted into your Kindle and the power adapter or USB port. If Kindle still is not charging, try another electrical outlet or USB port.

To transfer content between your computer and your Kindle, connect the provided

USB cable to the Kindle and to the computer’s USB port.

* Not all conﬁgurations ship with a power adapter.

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1.2 Getting Around

To get around on your Kindle, you use the buttons, menus, and the keyboard— all of which are explained here.

USING THE BUTTONS

In the Welcome section you learned about the navigation buttons (Previous Page, Next Page, and Back). For an explanation of what each button does, see Front View

of Kindle.

USING THE MENUS

In addition to the physical buttons, you also navigate Kindle using the menus. Kindle’s menus are context sensitive, but they all work the same way.

You use the 5-way controller to navigate within the menu and press the 5-way to

select an item.

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The illustration below shows the Home menu; the bold line under “Shop in Kindle

Store” indicates that it is ready to be selected.

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THE APPLICATION MENU

You can display a menu from any screen on your Kindle. When you press the Menu

button, it displays choices related to the screen you are viewing. The sample screen below shows you the screen you would typically see when you press the Menu button from within a book.

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1.3 Entering Text

To use the Kindle keyboard, most people ﬁnd it easiest to hold the device in both

hands, and use the tips of their thumbs to press the keys.

Delete/ Backspace

Return

Shift Key

Symbol Key

ALT Key Text Key

LOWERCASE AND UPPERCASE LETTERS

To enter lowercase letters, press the appropriate letter key. To enter uppercase letters,

hold down the Shift key , and then press the desired letter key like you do on your computer keyboard. Alternatively, you can press and release the Shift key and then press the desired letter. Only the next letter will be capitalized.

NUMBERS, PUNCTUATION, AND SYMBOLS

The number keys are located at the top of the keyboard. If you need a punctuation

mark or a symbol that is not shown, press the Symbol key on the bottom row of the keyboard. You will see a menu of punctuation marks and symbols.

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Use the 5-way controller to choose the character you want and it will appear in your text entry box.

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1.4 Screen Rotation

The Kindle screen image can be rotated so you can see the entire width of a web page or magnify the page of a PDF ﬁle. The buttons work the same in either rotation, but

the 5-way controller movements are switched to match the rotation.

To lock your screen into portrait or landscape mode, follow these steps:

1. Press the Text key located on the bottom row of the keyboard. Screen Rotation is displayed at the bottom of the menu.

2. Move the 5-way to select one of the four options to lock the display in a set orientation: portrait , landscape with the keyboard on the left, portrait with the

keyboard at the top, and landscape with the keyboard on the right.

3. Press the 5-way to conﬁrm your choice.

Note — You can view Kindle Store pages only in portrait mode.

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1.5 Status Indicators

At the top of every screen, you also see Whispernet and battery life status indicators

to keep you in the know.

WHISPERNET STATUS INDICATORS

The Whispernet status indicator shows you whether the wireless radio is turned on or off, the signal strength of your Whispernet service, and the connection speed.

Here are the possible indicators and their meanings.

The Whispernet service is active and your Kindle has a strong signal. The more bars that are ﬁlled in with black, the stronger the wireless signal. Note that a weak signal can increase power consumption.

None of the bars are ﬁlled in. This means the wireless signal strength is too low to connect. You will not be able to connect to the Kindle Store, Basic Web, register your device, retrieve content from Archived Items, receive your subscriptions, or sync to furthest page read.

The bars are ﬁlled in grey. This means Whispernet is checking for signal

strength. This usually lasts less than 30 seconds.

The Whispernet service is turned off. You can turn on the wireless by pressing

the Menu button, and using the 5-way controller to navigate to “Turn Wireless On.”

When you activate a menu, icons indicating the speed of your Whispernet service

appear to the left side of the signal bars.

Kindle with international wireless EDGE and GPRS wireless networks are slower than the 3G Whispernet service. Your Kindle World Edition will automatically switch to the faster 3G network when available.

Kindle

The 1X icon indicates that your Kindle is connected to the 1XRTT wireless network. Your Kindle will automatically switch to the faster 3G network when available.

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BATTERY STATUS INDICATORS

You have your Kindle plugged into power and the battery is charging.

The charge indicator light on the bottom of your Kindle also lights up. Note that

if your Kindle is plugged into a low powered USB port such as those found

on some keyboards or older computers, you will only derive enough charge

to avoid depleting the battery but not enough to recharge it.

The images above show the various states of the battery as it discharges. As you deplete the battery, less of the battery indicator will be ﬁlled in.

The battery is too low to power the Whispernet service. You must charge your

Kindle battery to restore wireless service.

Keep in mind that subscribing to multiple blogs that update frequently may increase power consumption and decrease the battery life. Weak signal coverage can also increase power consumption

ACTIVITY INDICATOR

Appears in the top left corner of your Kindle screen when the device is busy downloading new content, checking for new items, searching for an item, opening a

large PDF ﬁle, or loading a web page.

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CHAPTER 2: Getting to Know Kindle Content

The Kindle Home screen gives you an overall picture of what you currently have on your Kindle. It shows you what has arrived recently, what you are reading, and

where you are in your reading. It also allows you to remove content from your Kindle

and to move content from Amazon.com to your Kindle. Read below for more details.

2.1 The Home Screen

Your Home screen displays a list of all of your Kindle reading materials — books,

newspapers, magazines, blogs, PDF ﬁles, personal documents, as well as audiobooks. It serves as a personal bookshelf for all of your reading material, as well as a starting point to access other Kindle features.

To display the Home screen, press the Home button on the right edge of your Kindle.

By default, the Home screen lists all of the items that you have on your Kindle beginning with the most recently viewed (or acquired) items. Each type of content has

a slightly different description and label. You can read more about the types of content available in Chapter 3.

KINDLE BOOKS

Books are shown by title and author. Below the book title are a series of dots which give you an approximation of how long the book is. Bold dots within the series indicate how far along you are in the book based on the last page you viewed.

PERIODICALS

Periodicals include newspapers and magazines that can be purchased as a single issue or as a subscription delivered on a regular basis. Your Home screen lists the most recent issue of each periodical you have on your Kindle. Older issues appear inside a grouping called Periodicals: Back Issues. Selecting the grouping takes you to

a screen that displays the back issues of all the periodicals you have on your Kindle.

Note that Kindle automatically deletes issues that are more than seven issues old to free up space for new content. An exclamation point next to an issue indicates that it will be deleted within 24 hours.

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BLOGS

Blogs are subscription-based and appear on the Home screen as a single entry like books. As additional blog content arrives, it is added to the item and older entries are rolled off, much like a blog works on a computer.

AUDIOBOOKS

Audiobooks look similar to books, but they will be labeled in the Home screen as audio content. Like regular books, they have a progress indicator that shows where

you are in the audiobook.

PDF FILES

PDF ﬁles also look similar to books, but they will be labeled in the Home screen

as “pdf.” Like regular books, they have a progress indicator that shows where you are in the ﬁle.

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HOME SCREEN FEATURES

What you see on your Home screen varies depending on what reading materials you have purchased, and how you choose to show and sort this list. The screen sample

and list below explain the features that you may ﬁnd on your Home screen.

Device Name

Show Options

Title

Unread Title

Archived Item

Audiobook

PDF Title

Progress Indicator

Periodicals:

Back Issues

Sort Options

Author or Date

Sample Title

Pages In Home

Device name —the name of your Kindle. You can edit this name on the Settings screen.

Show options — choose which types of content you want displayed in Home.

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Sort options — choose the order you want content displayed in Home.

Title — the title of the item.

Author or Date — for books, the author of the item is listed. For periodicals and blogs,

the date is listed.

Progress indicator — the series of dots below the item shows how long the book is and bold dots show how far you have read in a particular item.

Unread title — the “new” label indicates the item has never been opened and is less than 24 hours old. Once you open a new document or more than 24 hours has passed since the item arrived on your Kindle, the “new” label is removed.

Archived Items — items stored at Amazon.com that you can re-download to

your device.

Audiobook title — the “audio” label indicates the book is an audiobook.

PDF title — the “pdf” label indicates the ﬁle is a PDF.

Periodicals: Back Issues — stores older issues of newspapers and magazines.

Sample title — the “sample” label indicates the book is a sample. If you like it,

you can purchase the full book from within the sample.

Pages — indicates the total number of pages in Home. Use the Next Page or Previous Page button to navigate the pages.

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SHOW OPTIONS

The following screen sample shows the location of the Show options and the list

below explains each of the options. Moving the 5-way controller to the left lets you select what items to show in Home.

Show Options

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Personal Docs — shows only the Personal Documents you have stored on your Kindle, including PDF ﬁles.

Subscriptions — shows only the periodicals and blogs you have stored on your Kindle.

Books — shows only the books and audiobooks you have stored on your Kindle.

All My Items — shows all of the content you have stored on your Kindle.

CHANGING WHAT YOUR HOME SCREEN SHOWS

By default, the Home screen shows all of your content. To change the type of content

displayed, follow these steps:

1. If you are not already on the Home screen, press the Home button.

2. Move the 5-way up until the Show and Sort options are underlined.

3. Move the 5-way to the left to see the Show options.

4. Move the 5-way to underline the type of content you want to display.

5. Press the 5-way to select it. The new display option changes immediately.

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SORT OPTIONS

The following screen shows the location of the Sort options and the list below

explains each of the options. Moving the 5-way to the right lets you change how to sort these items.

Sort Options

Most Recent First — sorts your content by the most recently added or recently

opened items ﬁrst.

Title — sorts your content alphabetically by title of the item.

Author — sorts your content alphabetically by the author’s last name or publisher’s

name. If you choose this option, periodicals will be sorted by their dates.

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CHANGING HOW THE HOME SCREEN IS SORTED

By default, your content is sorted by most recent ﬁrst, meaning all of the new items

and the content you are currently reading are at the top. To change this option, follow

these steps:

1. If you are not already on the Home screen, press the Home button.

2. Move the 5-way up until the Show and Sort Options are underlined.

3. Move the 5-way to the right to see the Sort options.

4. Move the 5-way to underline how you want the items sorted.

5. Press the 5-way to select it. The sort order on the Home screen

changes immediately.

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THE HOME SCREEN MENU

The Home screen menu allows you to navigate to other places in Kindle or to perform

specialized tasks. To display the Home screen menu, press the Menu button when your Home screen is displayed. The list below explains the menu.

Current Time Whispernet

Memory Battery

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Turn Wireless Off/On — turns the Whispernet service off or on.

Shop in Kindle Store — takes you to the Kindle Storefront.

View Archived Items — takes you to Archived Items where you can view and

wirelessly re-download content you are storing at Amazon.com.

Search — brings up the Search text entry page for submitting a word or phrase to search for.

Settings — takes you to the Settings screen.

Experimental — takes you to the Experimental page where you can see and use some

of the experimental prototypes we are working on.

Sync & Check for Items — connects to Amazon.com to download any newly available items and sync the furthest page read and bookmarks for all the books on your device.

2.2 Managing Your Content

All books you purchase are automatically backed up on Amazon.com. When you

remove a book that you have purchased, it appears in your Archived Items.

You access your Archived Items from your Home screen. To move content between Archived Items and Home, Whispernet needs to be on.

REMOVING KINDLE CONTENT

To remove content, follow these steps:

1. If you are not already on the Home screen, press the Home button.

2. In the list of the content already on your device, move the 5-way to underline the

item you want to remove.

3. Move the 5-way to the left to remove the item.

4. For books purchased from the Kindle Store you will see “remove from device” and for all other content you will see “delete.” Press the 5-way to remove the content.

To change your mind, move the 5-way up or down to cancel. Note that Kindle

books are backed up for you at Amazon.com even if removed from the device.

5. For content other than books purchased from the Kindle Store, you will need to conﬁrm the deletion of the content by selecting “ok.”

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MORE ABOUT MANAGING ITEMS

Amazon also stores the seven most recent issues of your newspapers and magazines.

If you’d like to keep a copy of an issue indeﬁnitely, open the issue, press the Menu button, and select “Keep this Issue”; you will then see the word “keep” to the left

of the issue title in Home.

You can download items stored at Amazon.com any time you are within Whispernet

coverage. If you are not within coverage, Kindle will automatically download the item when you re-enter Whispernet wireless service.

Personal documents (including PDF ﬁles) sent to your Kindle are not backed up

at Amazon.com.

When you remove a Kindle book you bought from Amazon, we automatically save

all of your annotations for the book in case you ever want to download it again.

However, if you remove a subscription issue that is older than seven days, a blog of any age, or an item you did not get from Amazon, any annotations you created on Kindle for those items do not get saved. Your “My Clippings” ﬁle will still remain as a separate ﬁle containing all the clippings you added regardless of whether the

content is a book, subscription, or blog or was purchased from Amazon or not.

See Chapter 3 for more information.

INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS DELIVERY

(Kindle with international wireless only) If you wirelessly receive or download content

to your Kindle via Whispernet while outside the U.S., additional fees may apply.

For further information go to: http://www.amazon.com/kindlewhispernetroaming

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CHAPTER 3:

Reading on Kindle

Kindle retains the best qualities of printed books, but adds many features that are available only through digital technologies such as word look up, changeable text size, and clippings. This chapter explains more about Kindle’s reading features.

3.1 Types of Content

There are many types of reading material available for your Kindle such as books,

newspapers, magazines, and blogs. If you want to begin purchasing and downloading

reading material, you can learn more in Chapter 5. You can also purchase audiobooks

from Audible.com and even have Amazon convert and deliver personal documents

to your Kindle. The different types of supported content are described below.

BOOKS

Thousands of books — both popular and hard-to-ﬁnd — are available in the Kindle

Store. Once you buy a book, it usually arrives wirelessly in under a minute. Because

you can’t always judge a book by its cover, you can download and read a sample of

most Kindle books for free. If you like it, simply buy it from within the sample and

continue reading. You can learn more about this feature in Chapter 5.

NEWSPAPERS

The Kindle Store offers a selection of U.S. and international newspapers.

Subscriptions are delivered wirelessly to your Kindle overnight so that the latest

edition can arrive on your device every morning, and every newspaper subscription

starts with a free trial.

MAGAZINES

The Kindle Store offers an expanding selection of magazines to meet every interest. As with newspapers, all periodical subscriptions are delivered wirelessly and start

with a free trial.

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BLOGS

The Kindle Store offers thousands of Kindle blogs, including up-to-the-minute news

feeds and topical blogs. Blog categories include business, technology, sports, politics,

culture, entertainment, humor, and science. Kindle blogs are sent to you wirelessly

throughout the day, allowing you to keep current. Unlike traditional feeds, which often only provide headlines, Kindle downloads the complete feed onto the device so you

can read them even when you are not wirelessly connected. All blog subscriptions are delivered wirelessly and start with a free trial.

PERSONAL DOCUMENTS

In addition to purchased content, you can read your personal documents on Kindle.

Kindle can display a PDF document without losing the formatting of the original

ﬁle. You can either drag PDF ﬁles over USB to your device or e-mail them to your dedicated Kindle e-mail address (found on the Settings page on Kindle or the

Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon.com). When you choose to e-mail a PDF, we

will wirelessly provide it directly to your Kindle via Whispernet for a fee. You can also press the Text key to change the orientation of your display to widescreen

viewing. For more information on the unique aspects of reading PDF ﬁles on Kindle,

see Section 3.6.

Additionally, if you have ﬁles formatted as text, Microsoft Word, HTML, PDF, or image

ﬁles like GIF or JPEG, you can e-mail the ﬁles as attachments to your Kindle e-mail address. Amazon will convert the ﬁles if necessary and send them back to your

computer for free or via Whispernet to your Kindle for a fee, whichever you prefer.

For more information on transferring, converting, and e-mailing your personal documents, see Chapter 8.

For details on fees, see the “Your individual charges” section of your Manage Your

Kindle page on Amazon.com.

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AUDIOBOOKS

You can download and enjoy thousands of audiobooks from Audible.com. Due to their

large ﬁle size, audiobooks must be downloaded to your PC or Mac over your existing

Internet connection and then transferred to Kindle over USB. Listen to audiobooks

through Kindle’s speakers or plug in your headphones for private listening. For more

information on transferring and listening to audiobooks, see Chapter 8.

BACKGROUND MUSIC

If you like to listen to music while you use your Kindle, use your computer to transfer

MP3 ﬁles to the “music” folder on your Kindle. When you select “Play MP3” from

the Experimental page, each of the songs will play in the order they were added to

your Kindle.

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3.2 Content Formatting on Kindle

When you read a book on Kindle, you will ﬁnd that the formatting generally follows

the printed version of the book. If the book has a table of contents, it will appear in

Kindle. If the book has chapters, a preface, an illustrated cover, and so forth, these will

be displayed.

While you are reading, each page displays a header showing the content title and/or

issue date. The top of the page shows the battery and Whispernet status indicators.

Progress Indicator

Locations

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PROGRESS INDICATOR

At the bottom of every page of your reading material, you can see where you are by

glancing at the progress indicator. As you progress further into the content, you will

see a solid bar growing longer. The progress indicator also shows structural marks

within content such as chapters, articles, bookmarks, notes, or highlights.

In books, the progress indicator also shows you the overall percentage of the book

you have read and a numeric location of where you are reading, so you can easily ﬁnd a particular passage or reference it to your friends. Locations are the digital answer

to page numbers. Changing the text size on Kindle also changes the page numbering,

but with locations, you return to the same place every time regardless of the text size.

CHANGING THE TEXT SIZE

You can adjust the size of the text to suit your preference. You have a choice of six

sizes for reading content on Kindle. (You cannot change the text size on menus, in PDF

ﬁles, or on Kindle screens, such as the Home screen or the Kindle Store.)

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To pick the text size that you want to use while reading, follow these steps:

1. Press the Text key located on the bottom row of the keyboard. The text size choices are displayed as well as controls for Text-to-Speech.

2. Move the 5-way left or right to the new text size that you want to use (you see the new text size immediately).

3. Press the 5-way or the Text key to conﬁrm your choice.

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ADJUSTING THE NUMBER OF WORDS PER LINE

You can change the number of words per line in the book. periodical, or personal document you are currently reading to suit your reading preference. Adjusting the

number of words increases or decreases the size of the margins. You may ﬁnd you read faster with fewer words per line. Experiment to ﬁnd what works best for you.

To pick the number of words per line you prefer, follow these steps:

1. Press the Text key located on the bottom row of the keyboard. The Words per Line choices are displayed below the text size choices.

2. Move the 5-way down to underline the Words per Line options.

3. Move the 5-way left or right to choose the option you want to use (you see the change immediately).

4. Press the 5-way or the Text key to conﬁrm your choice.

Note: You cannot change the number of words per line in PDF ﬁles or in Basic Web.

INCREASING THE SIZE OF A PICTURE

If you’d like to see a larger size of a picture or image you encounter in your reading material, simply follow these steps to zoom temporarily on the image.

1. Use the 5-way controller to position the cursor over the picture.

2. An image of a magnifying glass with a plus sign will appear on top

of the picture.

3. Press the 5-way to zoom the image. You will see a expanded view of the picture that rotates if necessary to maximize the use of the display.

4. Press the 5-way (or any key or button, except the Home button) to return to your content.

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3.3 Moving from Place to Place

There are several ways for you to get from place to place once you have opened your

reading material. Most often you will turn pages using the Next Page and Previous Page buttons (described in Chapter 1). You can also get around inside your book or periodical by selecting locations from the item’s Menu, clicking on links in the content,

or by moving the 5-way controller left or right to advance to another article or chapter.

USING THE MENU TO GET AROUND

To go to the menu, press the Menu button when reading a book or periodical. You will

have slightly different options depending on the content you are reading. Examples of the menu options are described below.

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If you are reading a Kindle book, the menu shows the following options:

Turn Wireless Off — turns off Whispernet. When Whispernet is off, this option will

change to “Turn Wireless On.”

Shop in Kindle Store — takes you to the Kindle Storefront.

Buy This Book Now — connects to the Kindle Store, purchases, and downloads

the full book to your Kindle. Only appears if you are reading a sample from the Kindle Store.

Cover — takes you to the cover page of the item you are reading. This is usually the cover of the book.

Table of Contents — takes you to the Table of Contents for the item you are reading.

Go to Beginning — takes you to the place in the book the publisher considers to be

the beginning. This is usually the ﬁrst chapter, but may be a foreword, the table of contents, or other point the publisher chooses.

Go to Location… — displays at the bottom of the screen, a text entry box that allows you to specify a location to jump to in the content.

Sync to Furthest Page Read — connects to Amazon.com and compares your current reading location with the one saved at Amazon. If you are further along in your book using another device, Kindle gives you the choice to go to the furthest page read.

Book Description — connects to the Kindle Store and displays the book’s detail page.

Search This Book — displays the Search line at the bottom of the screen. Additional

details on how to conduct a search are provided in Chapter 4.

Add a Bookmark — bookmarks the page you are currently on. After selecting this option, the upper right corner of the book will be dog-eared and this menu option will

change to “Delete Bookmark.”

Add a Note or Highlight — puts you into annotation mode. Additional details on how

to create a note or highlight are provided later in this chapter.

My Notes & Marks — displays a page containing all of your current item’s notes, highlights, and bookmarks.

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If you are reading a newspaper or magazine, you will see the following

different options:

Clip This Article — makes a copy of the entire article and adds it to your

“My Clippings” ﬁle.

Keep This Issue — designates the newspaper or magazine issue as one to be stored in your Kindle until you remove it.

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If you are reading a blog, you will see the following options:

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NAVIGATING WITHIN A PERIODICAL

At the bottom of a newspaper or magazine you will see options for quickly navigating

within an issue. When viewing a blog, you will see similar options for navigation.

Previous Article — takes you to the previous article when you move the 5-way controller to the left.

View Sections List — takes you to the sections list of a newspaper or magazine when you press the 5-way.

View Articles List —takes you to the articles list of a blog when you press the 5-way.

Next Article — advances you to the next article when you move the 5-way controller

to the right.

By default, “View Sections List” for newspapers and magazines is highlighted and when you press the 5-way, a list of the sections will appear. If you are viewing

a blog, “View Articles List” is highlighted and pressing the 5-way shows a list of the

blog’s articles.

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To navigate to a particular section, use the 5-way controller to underline the section

title and then press the 5-way to select. To dismiss this view and return to where you were last reading in the magazine or newspaper, select “Close Sections List” located

at the bottom of the screen. Selecting the number to the right of the section title will

take you to a list of articles found within that section.

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To navigate to a particular article within a section or blog, simply move the 5-way

controller to underline the article title and press to select. To dismiss this view, select

“Close Articles List” located at the bottom of the screen.

SELECTING INTERNAL LINKS

Your reading material may also contain links to other places in the document.

For example, in many books, the table of contents is set up to link to the content pages. Links are easy to spot because they are underlined.

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To select a link:

1. Move the 5-way over the link.

2. The cursor changes to look like this:

3. Press the 5-way to select the link.

4. Kindle takes you to the linked location.

5. Press the Back button to go back to where you were.

Your reading material may also contain external links that take you to locations on the

Web (if you have Whispernet turned on and are in range).

VIEWING A TABLE

Your reading material may contain a large table that is not entirely contained within

the screen. To see the rest of the table, move the 5-way controller up or down to bring up the cursor and then place the cursor to the left of the table. Move the 5-way to the right to scroll through the rest of the table.

READING ACROSS MULTIPLE KINDLES

If you read the same Kindle Store book across multiple Kindles (including Kindle for iPhone), you’ll ﬁnd Whispersync makes it easy for you to switch back and forth. Whispersync synchronizes the bookmarks, notes, highlights and furthest page read

among devices registered to the same account.

Whispersync is on by default to ensure a seamless reading experience for a book read

across multiple Kindles. If you would like to turn Whispersync off, follow these steps:

1. Go to http://www.amazon.com/manageyourkindle

2. At the bottom of the page, click on the link, “Manage synchronization between devices.”

3. Select “Turn Synchronization off.”

Once you turn synchronization off, your books will still open to the last page read

on that device, but Whispersync will no longer sync bookmarks or the furthest page

read with other devices. If you would like to sync the book manually, press the Menu button and select “Sync to Furthest Page Read.”

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3.4 Looking Up Deﬁnitions

While reading a book, periodical, or personal document (except PDF), you can see a brief deﬁnition of a word using the Lookup feature. You can choose the dictionary you want to use when you look up words while you are reading. The default is

The New Oxford American Dictionary included on your Kindle, but you can change

your dictionary choice by purchasing a different dictionary from the “Kindle Default Dictionary” category in the Kindle Store. See Chapter 7 for details on how to change your default dictionary.

THE LOOKUP FEATURE

To see the deﬁnition of a particular word in your reading content, follow these steps:

1. Move the 5-way controller up or down to display the cursor.

2. Move the 5-way in front of the word you want to look up.

3. If the word is found in the dictionary, a deﬁnition extract appears at the bottom of the screen.

4. To see the complete deﬁnition, press the Return key . You will now be placed in the dictionary and can use Previous Page and Next Page to view other word deﬁnitions.

5. Press the Back button to return to your reading.

Tip: If you want to expand your search beyond the dictionary on your device,

you can use the Search feature to look for the word on Wikipedia or the Web. See Chapter 4 for more information.

3.5 Annotations and Clippings

You can add annotations to all of your books, periodicals, and personal documents

(except PDF). Annotations can include notes you have written, highlights you’ve

marked, and bookmarks you’ve created. Annotations are speciﬁc to the content you are reading, so each book or periodical has its own annotations. When you view the annotations, you see only those for the content you are currently reading. Note that

when you create an annotation in a newspaper or magazine, you will see the word

“keep” to the left of the issue title in Home, indicating that the issue will be stored

on your Kindle until you remove it.

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Kindle also gathers the annotations you’ve made across all your various books,

magazines, newspapers, and personal documents and places them in the

“My Clippings” ﬁle in your Home screen. See Using Clippings for more information

on My Clippings.

The list below explains the types of annotations:

Bookmarks — mark an entire page for later reference.

Highlights — mark a passage on a page for later reference.

Notes — add your thoughts about a passage.

The sections below explain how to add annotations.

Tip: All of your annotations on a Kindle book are backed up on Amazon servers

in case you transfer your Kindle to another person or lose or break the device. When you download a previously annotated book from Amazon.com, your

annotations and last location read will come down with it. When you open the book,

you will be right where you were the last time you read the book and all of your

annotations will be included. Note that your “My Clippings” ﬁle is not listed as a separate downloadable item.

USING BOOKMARKS

Although Kindle automatically saves your place whenever you stop reading, you

may also want to add additional bookmarks. You can place a bookmark at any location, and you can have multiple bookmarks in whatever book you are reading. When you add a bookmark, it is associated with the ﬁrst location on the page. If you change text

size, the bookmark will still be associated with that location. You can return to a bookmarked location at any time.

Kindle stores all your bookmarks for the current content in your annotations. You can view them at any time by pressing the Menu button and selecting

“My Notes & Marks.”

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PLACING A BOOKMARK

To place a bookmark:

1. Go to the page that you want to bookmark.

2. Press the Menu button.

3. Move the 5-way controller down until “Add a Bookmark” is underlined. Press the 5-way to select.

4. A dog-ear icon in the upper right corner of the page will appear, indicating that the page is bookmarked.

Tip: You can quickly create a bookmark by either holding down the Alt key and

pressing the ‘B’ key, or by moving the 5-way up or down to go into cursor mode and

then pressing the 5-way controller twice.

VIEWING YOUR BOOKMARKS

To view your bookmarks, press the Menu button and select “My Notes & Marks.”

Bookmarks are listed in the order they occur in the content. Each bookmark entry shows a location number and the ﬁrst line of the bookmarked location.

To go to a bookmark location, navigate to the bookmark and press the 5-way.

There is no limit to the number of bookmarks that you can set.

REMOVING A BOOKMARK

To remove a bookmark:

1. Go to the bookmarked page.

2. Press the Menu button.

3. Move the 5-way controller down until “Delete Bookmark” is underlined. Press the 5-way to select. The bookmark is removed.

Tip: You can also remove a bookmark on the page by holding down the Alt key

and pressing the ‘B’ key.

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To remove several bookmarks at one time:

1. Press the Menu button.

2. Move the 5-way controller down until “My Notes & Marks” is underlined. Press the 5-way to select it.

3. Using the 5-way, navigate to the bookmark you want to remove.

4. Press the Delete key

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you have removed all unwanted bookmarks.

6. Move the 5-way down until the “Close Notes & Marks” button is highlighted and

press the 5-way to exit. You can also exit this view by pressing the Back button.

USING HIGHLIGHTS

You can highlight text in Kindle like you would use a highlighter pen on paper. Kindle

stores all your highlights for the current content in your annotations. You can view them at any time by pressing the Menu button and selecting “My Notes & Marks.” See Viewing Your Annotations for more information.

Kindle also stores everything you highlight in your “My Clippings” ﬁle.

HIGHLIGHTING A PASSAGE

To highlight one or more lines, follow these steps:

1. Use the 5-way to position the cursor where you want to start highlighting.

2. Press the 5-way.

3. Move the 5-way right (or left) to where you want your highlight to end. You can

turn pages if you want to highlight text across multiple pages.

4. Press the 5-way at the place where you want the highlight to end.

5. Notice that the text you highlighted appears with a gray underline.

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DELETING A HIGHLIGHT

To remove a highlight, follow these steps:

1. Navigate the cursor over the highlight you want to remove.

2. Press the Delete key

Or,

1. Press the Menu button.

2. Move the 5-way controller down until “My Notes & Marks” is underlined. Press the 5-way to select it.

3. Using the 5-way, navigate to the highlight you want to remove.

4. Press the Delete key

5. Move the 5-way down until the “Close Notes & Marks” button is highlighted and

press the 5-way to exit. You can also exit this view by pressing the Back button.

USING NOTES

To add a note, follow these steps:

1. Using the 5-way, move the cursor to the left of the word where you want to add your thoughts.

2. Type your note.

3. Using the 5-way navigate the cursor over “save note” and press the 5-way.

Notice the superscripted number where you inserted your note. Notes are numbered in the order they appear in the content, so if you later create another note on an earlier page, the numbering of the previously created notes will change.

To edit a note, follow these steps:

1. Use the 5-way to move the cursor over the note’s number.

2. The note appears at the bottom of the screen.

3. Press the Return key to edit the note.

4. Use the keyboard to make your changes.

5. Navigate the 5-way over “save note” and press the 5-way.

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To delete a note, follow these steps:

1. Use the 5-way to move the cursor over the note’s number.

2. The note appears at the bottom of the screen.

3. Press the Delete key to delete the note.

Tip: You can also view the notes and highlights you’ve created for each of your

Kindle books at http://kindle.amazon.com.

VIEWING YOUR ANNOTATIONS

To view your bookmarks, highlights, and notes, press the Menu button and select

“My Notes & Marks.”

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Each entry has a location number followed by the bookmark, highlighted passage, or note. Your annotations are listed in the order that they occur in the content. There is no limit to the number of annotations you can have. Use the Next Page and Previous Page buttons to turn the pages just as you would in a book.

To go to a location, move the 5-way up or down to select the bookmark, highlighted

passage, or note and press the 5-way to go there.

Your annotations are also stored in your “My Clippings” ﬁle for later reference.

See below for more information.

USING CLIPPINGS

In addition to annotations, you can “clip” an entire periodical article to the

“My Clippings” ﬁle. The “My Clippings” ﬁle contains all of the bookmarks, highlights,

notes, and clippings you have made across all your content. Later, you can view

the ﬁle or copy it to your computer; it will download to your computer as TXT ﬁle.

Once on your computer, you can edit it or send your clippings to someone else.

Clipping and highlighting are a great way to capture your favorite quotes and share

with others.

To clip an article:

1. Go to the article you want to clip.

2. Press the Menu button.

3. Move the 5-way controller down until “Clip this Article” is underlined. Press the 5-way to select.

Kindle adds your clipping to the “My Clippings” ﬁle. You can review your clippings later, search for words or terms you clipped, and transfer the “My Clippings” ﬁle to your computer.

To view your clippings, press the Home button to display the Home screen. Move the

5-way down until “My Clippings” is underlined. Press the 5-way to open it. While viewing the ﬁle, you cannot navigate through to the materials referenced in the ﬁle.

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MORE ABOUT MY CLIPPINGS

You cannot edit the “My Clippings” ﬁle from within Kindle, but you can edit the ﬁle on

your computer.

To edit the “My Clippings” ﬁle:

1. Connect your Kindle to your computer using the USB cable.

2. Your Kindle should appear on your computer in the same location you would

normally ﬁnd an external USB drive.

3. Open your Kindle. You should see a folder entitled Documents. Transfer the

“My Clippings” ﬁle out of this folder.

4. Open the “My Clippings” ﬁle on your computer using an application that can read or import a .txt ﬁle.

5. Make the changes and save the edited ﬁle.

6. Transfer the “My Clippings” ﬁle back to the “Documents” folder on your Kindle.

7. Unmount your Kindle from your computer before removing the USB cable.

Changing your “My Clippings” ﬁle does not affect any notes, bookmarks, or highlights you’ve made in the actual content. The next time you read the content, you can still use them for navigation and reference.

To remove the “My Clippings” ﬁle from your Kindle:

1. Press the Home button and move the 5-way down until “My Clippings” is underlined.

2. Move the 5-way to the left.

3. Press the 5-way to select “delete.”

4. Press the 5-way to select “ok.”

Kindle adds a new “My Clippings” ﬁle the next time you add a clipping or annotation to any content.

The amount of text you can add to the “My Clippings” ﬁle from each item may be

limited. The “My Clippings” ﬁle will include a note informing you if a clipping limit has been reached for a given item.

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3.6 Reading PDF Files

Your Kindle is able to display most PDF documents. (Note that password-protected

PDF ﬁles are not supported.)

When your Kindle is set to portrait orientation, PDF documents are displayed in

their original layout and ﬁt the entire screen of the device. White margins of PDF documents are automatically cropped to maximize the amount of content shown on the screen.

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In landscape orientation, Kindle automatically magniﬁes your document to ﬁt the

width of the screen to improve readability.

A black outline deﬁnes the limit of the page of the PDF document. In both portrait and

landscape orientations, the bottom of the screen shows how far you have read in a

particular item as a percentage, and displays the current page number, as well as the

total number of pages of the current document.

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USING THE PDF MENU

The options available while reading a PDF ﬁle are slightly different than when reading a book or a periodical on Kindle. Options that are not available in PDF ﬁles are grayed out in the menu.

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Cover — takes you to the cover page of the item you are reading.

Go to Beginning — takes you to the beginning of the PDF ﬁle.

Go to Page… — displays a text entry box at the bottom of the screen, so you can

specify a page to jump to in the content.

Search This Document — displays the Search line at the bottom of the screen. This allows you search for a word or a combination of words inside the currently opened

PDF document. This feature doesn’t work in cases where a PDF document was created

using image ﬁles.

Add a Bookmark — bookmarks the page you are currently on. After selecting this option, the upper right corner of the PDF will be dog-eared and this menu option will

change to “Delete Bookmark.”

My Bookmarks — displays a page containing all of your current item’s bookmarks.

3.7 Listening to Audio Materials

There are three types of audio materials that you can listen to on your Kindle. You can

purchase, transfer, and listen to audiobooks from Audible.com, transfer MP3 ﬁles from

your computer to play as background music while you read, or turn on Text-to-Speech

in any of your reading material (where allowed by the rights holder). (For information about transferring audiobooks or MP3 ﬁles to your Kindle, see Chapter 8.)

AUDIOBOOKS

On your Home screen, your audiobooks list the title and author, but they also have the

word “audio” next to the title to indicate that they are audiobooks.

To listen to one of your audiobooks, select it from your Home screen. You will see a page similar to the one shown below. Kindle provides a standard set of controls that are explained below.

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Book Title

Description

Progress Indicator

Beginning Next Section

Previous Section

Back

Pause/Play

Forward 30 Seconds

30 Seconds

Progress Indicator — indicates how far you have come in the audiobook, the elapsed

time, and the section you are in.

Pause/Play — pauses or plays the audiobook (there is no Stop control).

Forward 30 Seconds — moves ahead thirty seconds from the current location.

Beginning — takes you back to the beginning of the audiobook.

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Previous Section — moves backwards in the audiobook to the previous section.

Back 30 Seconds — moves backwards thirty seconds from the current location.

Next Section — moves ahead to the next section in the audiobook, which is usually

the next chapter.

BACKGROUND AUDIO

To play background audio (MP3 ﬁles) that you have transferred to your Kindle, follow

the steps below:

1. If you are not already on the Home screen, press the Home button.

2. Press the Menu button.

3. Move the 5-way down until “Experimental” is underlined and press the 5-way to select it.

4. Move the 5-way down until “Play MP3” is underlined and press down to select it.

The songs are played in order, by the date you added them to your Kindle. You can adjust the volume of the music using the volume controls on the right side of your

Kindle. You can continue to listen to the audio while reading content; the background audio continues to play unless you open an audio book, turn on text-to-speech, all of the ﬁles have been played, or if you stop the playback as indicated below.

To turn off background audio:

1. If you are not already on the Home screen, press the Home button.

2. Press the Menu button.

3. Move the 5-way down until “Experimental” is underlined. Press the 5-way to select.

4. Move the 5-way down until “Play MP3” is underlined. Press the 5-way to select.

Tip: You can also play or stop background audio by holding down the ALT key

and pressing the space bar. You can forward to the next track by holding down the ALT key and pressing the ‘F’ key.

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TEXT-TO-SPEECH

Your Kindle can read aloud your books (where allowed by the rights holder),

newspapers, magazines, blogs, and personal documents with the Kindle Experimental

application Text-to-Speech.

To turn on Text-to-Speech, follow these steps:

1. Press the Text key

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2. Move the 5-way down so that “turn on” is underlined. Press the 5-way to select. In a few moments, you will hear your content spoken aloud. You can either listen to it through the Kindle’s external speakers or plug in earphones into the headphone jack.

3. By default, content is spoken with a male voice, but using the 5-way, you can select a female speaking voice. You can also slow down or increase the rate of speech as well as pause or turn off Text-to-Speech

4. While Text-to-Speech is playing, the screen will update to the corresponding page of text.

For PDF ﬁles and books which the rights holder does not allow Text-to-Speech to read

aloud, Text-to-Speech will be grayed out and you will not be able to select it.

By default, Text-to-Speech starts reading at the beginning of the page currently

displayed. To start reading at a particular spot, move the cursor where you’d like the

reading to begin before starting Text-to-Speech.

Tip: You can also play or stop Text-to-Speech by holding down the Shift key

and pressing the Symbol key . You can pause and resume Text-to-Speech by pressing the Spacebar.

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CHAPTER 4: Searching on Kindle

Kindle allows you to take advantage of powerful search capabilities. You can search locally on Kindle or remotely at the Kindle Store, Wikipedia, or the Web.

4.1 Introduction to Search

This section describes the types of searches that you can perform using Kindle and

how to use search.

TYPES OF SEARCHES

Kindle supports several types of search as summarized below.

SEARCHING WHAT YOU ARE CURRENTLY READING

You can limit a search to only what you are currently reading. You enter your search

term or phrase and Kindle searches in the body of the text in the current item.

SEARCHING ALL YOUR CONTENT

You can alternatively search all the reading material that you have stored on Kindle,

including books, newspapers, magazines, and other items. You enter your search term

or phrase and Kindle searches in the body of the text, in the metadata (for example,

the title or author), and in your “My Clippings” ﬁle. For PDFs, Kindle searches for the term in the metadata only (author’s name and ﬁle name). Additionally, Kindle also keeps and searches the metadata for the content you have stored on Amazon.

SEARCHING REMOTELY

Kindle can perform remote searches in several different locations using Whispernet. Each of these remote location searches are described in the ﬁnal section of this chapter. See Searching the Kindle Store, Searching the Web, or Searching Wikipedia.

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SEARCHING FOR DEFINITIONS

You can limit a search to the dictionary. Kindle searches your default dictionary for deﬁnitions of the word you have entered.

PERFORMING A SEARCH

To perform a search, follow these steps:

1. Type in your search term; the Search line will automatically appear. You can use

whole words, and no distinction is made between lower and upper case.

2. To ﬁnd the word or phrase in the content you are currently reading, move the 5-way to the right to highlight “ﬁnd.” Or, to choose the type of search, continue

moving the 5-way right. You can search all your items, the Kindle Store, Google, Wikipedia, or the dictionary.

3. Press the 5-way to submit your search.

If you select “Search” from the Home page menu, the screen will display a full Search page.

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4.2 Search Results Page

When searching all your content, Kindle looks in the reading materials you have on your Kindle and the metadata (like title and author) of the materials you have in Archived Items. This includes purchased items, personal documents, and annotations

that you have created.

The example below shows a typical Search Results page.

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The screen shows the titles of the items that contain your search term and indicates

how many times the term occurs. The list is ordered by the number of occurrences of

the search term in each item. If the term appears in a title of an archived item, then

that item is listed ﬁrst and does not include the number of occurrences.

Use the Next Page and Previous Page buttons if there are more results than ﬁt on the

current page.

SEARCH RESULTS FOR A SPECIFIC ITEM

To see the results for one of the items listed:

1. Use the 5-way to underline the item.

2. Press the 5-way to view the matches.

3. A page appears showing all instances of the search term in that particular title. Each occurrence lists its location number and is shown in context so you can see how the search term is used.

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To go to a speciﬁc location in the content where the search term occurs, use the

5-way to underline the location and press the 5-way to select. If the search results encompass multiple pages, then use the Next Page and Previous Page buttons to navigate between pages.

To close the Search Results page, move the 5-way to highlight “Close Search Results” and press the 5-way.

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SEARCH RESULTS FOR A DEFINITION

When you want to look up the meaning of a word, you can limit a search to the

dictionary. Kindle searches your default dictionary for deﬁnitions of the word

you enter.

To ﬁnd a deﬁnition, follow these steps:

1. Type in the word you want deﬁned.

2. Move the 5-way right to highlight “dictionary.”

3. Press the 5-way to submit your search.

You will see a complete deﬁnition of the word.

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4.3 Performing Remote Searches

To search remotely, you must have Whispernet switched on. You can select any of the

remote searches described in this section.

If Whispernet is not already on, press the Menu button. Move the 5-way controller to underline “Turn Wireless On” and press the 5-way controller to select and turn

on Whispernet.

SEARCHING WIKIPEDIA

To search Wikipedia, enter your term and move the 5-way to select “wikipedia.” This opens Basic Web and displays the Wikipedia page.

SEARCHING THE WEB

To search the Web, enter your term and move the 5-way to select “google.” This opens Basic Web and submits your search term to Google.

SEARCHING THE KINDLE STORE

To search the Kindle Store, enter your term and move the 5-way to select “store.” Your Kindle connects to the Kindle Store and displays the search results page for the

store sorted by relevance, as shown in the example below. You can page through the results just like you would do in the content on your Kindle.

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You can narrow results by categories by clicking on the drop-down list located in the

upper right corner of the Search Results page.

Tip: You can also narrow a search in the Kindle Store to an author’s name by

typing “@author” followed by the author’s name. For example, to search the Kindle Store for books by Agatha Christie, enter “@author Agatha Christie” in the Search line. This will narrow your Kindle Store search to ﬁnd only books written by Agatha Christie.

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CHAPTER 5:

The Kindle Store

The Kindle Store is the place to purchase your Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Find an item in the store, select “Buy,” and you will typically receive your

item wirelessly in under a minute. All of your Kindle purchases use Amazon 1-Click for easy purchasing and Amazon automatically backs up all of your purchases in case you lose your Kindle or want to download a title again. To help other Amazon users decide what to buy, you can also add your own ratings and reviews.

5.1 Getting Started at the Store

This section tells you how to connect to the Kindle Store on your Kindle, and provides

some ideas about the best ways to look for content once you are connected.

CONNECTING TO THE KINDLE STORE

You connect to the Kindle Store using your device’s built-in Whispernet service. To go

to the Kindle Store, follow these steps:

1. If Whispernet is not already on, press the Menu button, move the 5-way controller up so that “Turn Wireless On” is underlined, and then press the 5-way controller to

turn on Whispernet.

2. Press the Menu button and move the 5-way controller down to underline “Shop in Kindle Store.”

3. Press the 5-way controller to select “Shop in Kindle Store.”

You will see this icon in the upper left corner of the page, if you are not already

connected. The Kindle Storefront will appear as shown later in this chapter and serves

as a launch point for all of the Kindle Store services.

5.2 Kindle Store Pages

This section describes the different pages you will ﬁnd at the Kindle Store, like the

Kindle Storefront, the Browse pages, and the product detail pages for individual pieces of content.

Note: Kindle Store pages can only be viewed in portrait mode.

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THE KINDLE STOREFRONT

When you select “Shop in Kindle Store” from any menu, you will be taken to the Kindle Storefront. An example is shown below, the storefront you see may be

different as we update it often.

Search Store — enter your search criteria here and Amazon will search the entire Kindle Store for matches and return the search results.

Once you are in the Kindle Store, you can move around using links on the pages of the store such as New & Noteworthy Books or Top Sellers, by using the Store menu, or by searching the Kindle Store for speciﬁc titles.

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THE STORE MENU

The menu you see while you are connected to the Kindle Store allows you to go to other places in the store easily and includes the selections listed below.

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Turn Wireless Off — turns the Whispernet connection off. If you turn wireless off,

you will not be able to access the Kindle Store.

Kindle Storefront — takes you to the Kindle Storefront.

Books — displays the books currently available in the Kindle Store.

Newspapers — displays the newspapers currently available in the Kindle Store.

Magazines — displays the magazines currently available in the Kindle Store.

Blogs — displays the blogs currently available in the Kindle Store.

Top Sellers — displays a list of Amazon best sellers. Outside the U.S., Kindle with

international wireless will display Kindle Best Sellers instead.

New & Noteworthy — displays a list of new or noteworthy content on the Kindle

Store. Outside the U.S., Kindle with international wireless will display Kindle Best

Sellers instead.

Recommended for You — displays items recommended for you by Amazon based on

your previous digital and physical purchases.

“Save For Later” Items — displays items you have previously noted as something that

might be of interest to you.

BROWSING THE STORE

Another way to ﬁnd reading material in the Kindle Store is to browse through the different content categories such as books or newspapers. Once inside a category, you

can further reﬁne your browse by topic. For example, within “Books,” you can reﬁne

listings to “Fiction,” “Nonﬁction,” “Advice & How-to,” etc. Each browse page shows

the path that you have taken at the top so you can easily retrace your steps.

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BROWSE LISTINGS SAMPLE

The example below shows you the type of listings you will see on the Books

browse page.

Browse path — shows the steps on the path you used to get to the current page.

Number of titles in the category — shows the number of items available in the

particular category.

Categories — groups the content by topics of interest to make browsing easier.

Select the category you are interested in to show only items in that particular

subject. You can also select subcategories within the main category by selecting

“View subcategories within…” in the upper right corner of the screen.

Browse Path

GETTING THE DETAILS

The product detail page for books and periodicals provides the most pertinent

information about an item. To get to the product detail page for a particular item,

use the 5-way controller to select it.

PRODUCT DETAIL PAGE EXAMPLE

The example below shows you a product detail page for a book available at the

Kindle Store. The features on this page are explained in the list below.

Title Author

Description

Buy

Reviews Try a Sample

Save for Later

Text-to-Speech

Recommendations

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Author — searches the Kindle Store for other books by the author when selected.

Description — describes the item. Select “more” to see the full text.

Buy — purchases the item using your default Amazon 1-Click payment method and

sends it wirelessly to your Kindle.

Reviews — displays the customer reviews for this item. Provides links to editorial

reviews and for writing your own review.

Try a Sample — downloads the beginning of the book for free so you can sample it

before buying.

Save for Later — adds the item to your “Save for Later Items” list so you can peruse or purchase it later.

Text-to-Speech — indicates whether Text-to-Speech is allowable by the book’s

rights holder.

Customers who bought this book also bought: — displays a list of items purchased

by Amazon customers who also bought this item.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS FOR PERIODICALS

The product detail page for newspapers, magazines, and blogs is similar to the

product detail page for books, but it contains different purchasing options:

Subscribe now with 14-day Free Trial —select this to start your subscription. All

newspapers, magazines, and blogs come with a free trial to start your subscription, and you can cancel your subscription on the Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon at any time during this period. After the trial period, your subscription will automatically be delivered at the regular monthly price.

Buy Current Issue — purchases the current issue of the newspaper or magazine and

sends it to your Kindle.

Note that if you have already subscribed to or purchased an item, you will see

the word “Already Subscribed” in gray letters next to the periodical on the product detail page.

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SAVING ITEMS FOR LATER

The Kindle Store provides a “Save for Later Items” page for you to save items that

you want to look at or purchase later. This page lists the item’s title, author, and average customer rating.

To add an item to your list, select “Save for Later” from the product detail page for the

item. You will see a conﬁrmation message that your addition was successful. To see

your list of saved items, select “Save for Later Items” from the Store menu. To display

the product detail page for this item, select “Details.” To remove the item from your

list, select “Delete.”

5.3 Recommendations, Reviews, and Ratings

The Kindle Store provides several features to help you decide which reading materials

you may want to purchase. This section describes the various ways you can ﬁnd what

is available.

RECOMMENDED FOR YOU

The Recommendations page provides a list of things that you might enjoy based on

the types of materials (digital and printed) you have purchased in the past either on Kindle or on Amazon.com. To get to this page, select “Recommended for You”

from the Kindle Storefront or from the Kindle Store menu.

LOOKING UP REVIEWS

The Reviews page lists Customer Reviews for items. To get to the Reviews page for a speciﬁc item, select “Customer Reviews” from the product detail page for that item.

To see Editorial Reviews from publications, select “Editorial Reviews” from the

Reviews page. For the complete text of a particular review, select the review excerpt

using the 5-way controller.

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WRITING YOUR OWN RATINGS AND REVIEWS

You can share your opinions with other readers by rating and reviewing the materials

that you have read. To get to this page, select “Customer Reviews” from the product detail page for the item you want to critique, and then select “Write a Review”

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The sample screen below shows you the type of information you can enter.

ENTERING A RATING AND REVIEW

1. Indicate the rating you think this item deserves by selecting the line with the appropriate number of stars.

2. Select “Title” and enter a title for your review. Select “ok” to submit your title.

3. Select “Review” and type your review on the lines provided. Select “ok.”

4. To submit your rating and review, select “Submit.” If you want to close this page without submitting your rating or review, select “Cancel.”

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5.4 Making Purchases

This section explains various aspects of purchasing items from the Kindle Store.

TRYING A SAMPLE BOOK

Most Kindle books allow you to download a sample before you decide to buy the item. The end of the sample book has a link to revisit the product detail page for the item or a link to purchase the item directly. In addition, while reading a sample, the Menu shows “Buy this Book Now” so you can purchase the book at any time during your reading.

BUYING YOUR SELECTIONS

All of your Kindle Store purchases use Amazon 1-Click, which allows you to purchase

reading materials with a single selection. To make your purchase, select “Buy” from

any product detail page for the item you want. Your item will be auto-delivered

wirelessly to your Kindle and also added to the Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon. com. You will see an “items downloaded” message at the top of the screen when your item has arrived on your Kindle.

Tip: Once your item has been downloaded, the original is retained in the

Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon.com. If the download is not successful, or if it is interrupted, Kindle will attempt to download again without any action required from you.

RETURNING AN ITEM

All of your Kindle Store purchases present an order cancellation feature at the time

of purchase in case you change your mind or made a mistake. Just select “Purchase

by Accident? Cancel this Order” on the order conﬁrmation page. If you are a U.S. customer, you can also contact Kindle Support using Amazon’s Click-to-Call service on the Web at: http://www.amazon.com/kindlesupport

For customers outside the U.S., Kindle Support can be reached via e-mail at: kindle-cs-support@amazon.com or by phone at 1-206-266-0927(charges will apply). U.S. customers can reach Kindle Support by phone at 1-866-321-8851.

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CHAPTER 6:

Accessing the Web

Your Kindle comes with an Experimental application called Basic Web, which is

a Web browser optimized to read Web sites that are primarily text-based. It supports

JavaScript, SSL and cookies but does not support media plug-ins (Flash, Shockwave,

etc.) or Java applets. You can also change your Kindle screen orientation from portrait to landscape to see the entire width of a web page.

6.1 Using Basic Web

There are four ways to open the Basic Web browser. The two main ways are to

select “Basic Web” from the Experimental screen or to follow a link from within your reading material. Many of the blogs that you subscribe to from the Kindle Store have links to Web sites. Selecting these links will open Basic Web and take you to the URL

associated with the link. If you select “Basic Web” from the Experimental page, you

will open to the last Web site you were viewing in your browser.

One other way of accessing the Basic Web browser is to type in a word anytime from Home or any book, blog, newspaper, or magazine you happen to be reading. When you begin typing, a search box will pop up at the bottom of the screen, and you can move the 5-way controller to the right and select “google” or “wikipedia” from the menu to search those sites directly for the word you typed.

You can also enter a URL in the Search bubble from the Home page. Type the URL and

move the 5-way to select “go to” and then press the 5-way.

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Back and Forward One Page

Loading Progress

Viewing Mode Location

Search Google

URL Text Field

ENTERING A URL

To enter the URL for a Web site, navigate to the top of the screen or press Menu and

select “Enter URL” from the menu options. Begin typing when the cursor is located in the URL text ﬁeld. When you are done typing, press the 5-way controller to view that Web site.

The URL text ﬁeld retains the last URL you entered in case you want to quickly edit the

same address and submit it again. If you want to enter a secure site with an “https” address, use the backspace key to delete the automatically entered “://” and type the address you want.

The URL text ﬁeld is embedded in a navigation bar with a few other key shortcuts. To the right of the URL text ﬁeld there is a button to stop loading or reload the current

page. From there, move your 5-way to the right, and you can select the Google search

engine or Wikipedia for searching on the text entered in the URL text ﬁeld. Above the

URL text ﬁeld are shortcuts to navigate back and forward one page, an indication of how much of the page has been loaded, whether you are viewing the page in Basic or Advanced Mode, and where you are in the web page.

Reload or Stop Loading

USING BOOKMARKS AND ADDING YOUR OWN

Bookmarks let you easily access a Web page without needing to type the address

every time. When you open Basic Web from the Experimental page for the ﬁrst time,

you will see a list of default bookmarks with links to information such as daily news and weather. While browsing, you can also access the same list of bookmarks by

selecting “Bookmarks” from the browser menu (just press the Menu button).

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To add a Web site to the Bookmarks page, simply navigate to the site that you want to

bookmark and press the Menu button. Move the cursor to “Bookmark this page” and

press the 5-way controller. Any new bookmarks that you select will be added to the

existing list on your Kindle.

You can remove a bookmark by going to your Bookmarks lists and moving the 5-way

controller until the item you want to delete is underlined. Move the 5-way left to display “delete bookmark.” Press the 5-way and the site will be deleted from your

Bookmarks. From the Bookmarks list, moving the 5-way to the right lets you edit the

name of the bookmark.

USING NEXT PAGE AND PREVIOUS PAGE

Most Web pages you ﬁnd on the Internet will have more content than can be displayed on one page. Use the Next Page and Previous Page buttons to move

through these pages. This is equivalent to using your mouse on a computer to move

up and down through a Web page. You can also move the cursor down with the 5-way

controller until it reaches the bottom of the page.

SELECTING LINKS, BUTTONS, AND BOXES

You can navigate the links on a Web page by using the 5-way controller to move the

cursor around the page. Links in Basic Web are shown as underlined words, just like

in the Reader. Below is a Web page with multiple selectable links.

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Using the 5-way controller, highlight the link you want to go to and press the 5-way. The browser will open that page.

If you want to enter information in an input ﬁeld in a Web page to search that site,

for example, you should move the cursor to that input ﬁeld and begin typing. When

you ﬁnish typing, press down on the nearby Go or Enter or Search button to retrieve

the results. If there are radio buttons embedded within a Web page, you can change

the input by maneuvering the cursor to the button you want to change and press the

5-way to “push” this button.

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USING HISTORY

You can easily return to Web sites you recently viewed by pressing the Menu button and selecting “History.” You will then see a list of recently visited Web sites to select

from. As noted above, you can also use this list to add a site to your Bookmarks by

moving the 5-way to the right.

THE BASIC WEB MENU

The Basic Web menu contains other items you can select, many of which also appear

in the Browser’s navigation bar. To view the menu, press the Menu button when the

Basic Web browser is on the screen.

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Turn Wireless Off — turns the Whispernet connection off. If you turn the wireless off,

you will not be able to use the browser.

Shop in Kindle Store — takes you to the Kindle Storefront.

Enter URL — takes you directly to the URL ﬁeld where you can enter a web address

to visit.

Go to Top — returns you to the top of the current Web page.

Bookmarks — displays your list of Web bookmarks.

Bookmark This Page — adds the current page to the bottom of your list of bookmarks.

History — displays your History page, which keeps track of the sites you have visited.

Settings — displays your list of settings where you can change the options for

Basic Web.

Use Advanced Mode — for complex Web sites. This mode squeezes pages down to

ﬁt the width of the Kindle screen. In this mode, JavaScript can also be enabled. When

this mode is selected, the menu selection then changes to “Use Basic Mode” which optimizes the Kindle’s browser for viewing most pages.

6.2 Other Features

As you become more familiar with the Basic Web browser, the following topics may

be of interest to you.

DOWNLOADING FILES

Some Web sites may have books or documents you can download and read on

your Kindle. When you select these books or documents using Basic Web, you will

be asked to conﬁrm if you want to download these to your Kindle Home. The types of ﬁles you can download include Kindle content (.AZW, .AZW1),

unprotected Mobipocket books (.MOBI, .PRC) and text ﬁles (.TXT).

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BASIC WEB SETTINGS

You can modify the default browser behaviors and perform simple maintenance

procedures using Basic Web Settings. To display the Settings screen, press the

Menu button while in the browser and then use the 5-way to select “Settings.”

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Switch to Advanced Mode — switches between Basic and Advanced modes, when

you view Basic Web.

Clear Cache — removes temporary Internet ﬁles from your Kindle. Move the on-

screen highlight to “Clear Cache” and press the 5-way controller to clear the cache.

Clear History — removes cached Internet address entries from your Kindle. Move the on-screen highlight to “Clear History” and press the 5-way to clear this list.

Clear Cookies — removes cookies from your Kindle. Move the on-screen highlight to

“Clear Cookies” and press the 5-way to remove the cookies.

Enable Javascript — enables or disables Javascript to be executed on the pages you

visit. Note that if Javascript is disabled, Web pages will load faster. The view mode

must be set to Advanced Mode to use this feature.

Disable Images — select whether you want images to appear when you load a Web

page. Note that if you do not show images, Web pages will load faster.

Chapter 6 · 100KINDLE USER’S GUIDE 4th EDITION

Amazon D00701, D00511 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

CHAPTER 1: Getting Started with Your Kindle

1.1 Views of Kindle

FRONT VIEW

TOP VIEW

BOTTOM VIEW

1.2 Getting Around

USING THE BUTTONS

USING THE MENUS

THE APPLICATION MENU

1.3 Entering Text

LOWERCASE AND UPPERCASE LETTERS

NUMBERS, PUNCTUATION, AND SYMBOLS

1.4 Screen Rotation

1.5 Status Indicators

WHISPERNET STATUS INDICATORS

BATTERY STATUS INDICATORS

ACTIVITY INDICATOR

CHAPTER 2: Getting to Know Kindle Content

2.1 The Home Screen

HOME SCREEN FEATURES

SHOW OPTIONS

SORT OPTIONS

THE HOME SCREEN MENU

2.2 Managing Your Content

REMOVING KINDLE CONTENT

MORE ABOUT MANAGING ITEMS

INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS DELIVERY

3.1 Types of Content

BOOKS

NEWSPAPERS

MAGAZINES

BLOGS

PERSONAL DOCUMENTS

AUDIOBOOKS

BACKGROUND MUSIC

3.2 Content Formatting on Kindle

PROGRESS INDICATOR

CHANGING THE TEXT SIZE

ADJUSTING THE NUMBER OF WORDS PER LINE

INCREASING THE SIZE OF A PICTURE

3.3 Moving from Place to Place

USING THE MENU TO GET AROUND

NAVIGATING WITHIN A PERIODICAL

SELECTING INTERNAL LINKS

VIEWING A TABLE

READING ACROSS MULTIPLE KINDLES

THE LOOKUP FEATURE

3.5 Annotations and Clippings

USING BOOKMARKS

USING HIGHLIGHTS

USING NOTES

USING CLIPPINGS

3.6 Reading PDF Files

3.7 Listening to Audio Materials

AUDIOBOOKS

BACKGROUND AUDIO

TEXT-TO-SPEECH

CHAPTER 4: Searching on Kindle

4.1 Introduction to Search

TYPES OF SEARCHES

PERFORMING A SEARCH

4.2 Search Results Page

SEARCH RESULTS FOR A SPECIFIC ITEM

SEARCH RESULTS FOR A DEFINITION

4.3 Performing Remote Searches

SEARCHING WIKIPEDIA

SEARCHING THE WEB

SEARCHING THE KINDLE STORE

5.1 Getting Started at the Store

CONNECTING TO THE KINDLE STORE

5.2 Kindle Store Pages

THE KINDLE STOREFRONT

THE STORE MENU

BROWSING THE STORE

GETTING THE DETAILS

SAVING ITEMS FOR LATER