Amazon Kindle 2nd Generation (U.S. Wireless), Kindle 2nd Generation (Free 3G) User Guide

KINDLE USER’S GUIDE 5th EDITION

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WELCOME 9

CHAPTER 1: Getting Started with Your Kindle 20

1.1 Views of Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Top View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

1.2 Getting Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Using the Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Using the Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

The Application Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

1.3 Entering Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Lowercase and Uppercase Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Numbers, Punctuation, and Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

1.4 Screen Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

1.5 Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Whispernet Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Battery Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Activity Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

CHAPTER 2: Getting to Know Kindle Content 34

2.1 The Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Home Screen Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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

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

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2.2 Organizing With Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Creating a Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Adding an Item to a Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Adding Multiple Items to a Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Viewing Collection Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Renaming a Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Deleting a Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Adding Collections from Another Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

2.3 Managing Your Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Removing Kindle Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

More about Managing Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

International Wireless Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

CHAPTER 3: Reading on Kindle 49

3.1 Types of Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Newspapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Magazines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Blogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Personal Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Background Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

3.2 Content Formatting on Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Progress Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Changing the Text Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Adjusting the Number of Words per Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Increasing the Size of a Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

3.3 Moving from Place to Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using the Menu to Get Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Navigating within a Periodical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Selecting Internal Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Viewing a Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Reading Across Multiple Kindles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

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3.4 Looking Up Deﬁnitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

The Lookup Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

3.5 Annotations and Clippings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Using Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Using Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Displaying Popular Highlights in Your Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Using Clippings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

3.6 Sharing Notes and Highlights with Your Social Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

Linking Your Kindle to Your Twitter Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Unlinking Your Kindle From a Social Network Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

Sharing Your Notes and Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

3.7 Reading PDF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

3.8 Listening to Audio Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Background Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Text-to-Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

CHAPTER 4: Searching on Kindle 90

4.1 Introduction to Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Types of Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Searching for Deﬁnitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Performing a Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

4.2 Search Results Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Search Results for a Speciﬁc Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Search Results for a Deﬁnition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

4.3 Performing Remote Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Searching Wikipedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Searching the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Searching the Kindle Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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CHAPTER 5: The Kindle Store 98

5.1 Getting Started at the Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98

Connecting to the Kindle Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98

5.2 Kindle Store Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98

The Kindle Storefront . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

The Store Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Browsing the Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Getting the Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Adding Items to Your Wish List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

5.3 Recommendations, Reviews, and Ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Recommended for You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Looking Up Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

Writing Your Own Ratings and Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Entering a Rating and Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

5.4 Making Purchases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Trying a Sample Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Buying Your Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Returning an Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

CHAPTER 6: Accessing the Web 109

6.1 Using Basic Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Entering a URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Using Bookmarks and Adding Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Using Next Page and Previous Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Selecting Links, Buttons, and Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Using History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

The Basic Web Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

6.2 Other Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Text Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Downloading Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Basic Web Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

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CHAPTER 7: Settings and Experimental 117

7.1 Adjusting Your Kindle Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Registering or Deregistering Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120

Personalizing Your Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Password - Protecting Your Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Choosing Your Primary Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Changing Annotations Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

The Settings Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

7.2 Experimental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

CHAPTER 8: Kindle and Your Computer 128

8.1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Making the Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

8.2 Transferring Files from Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Managing Your Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Transferring Your Clippings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

8.3 Converting and Transferring Your Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Supported Formats for Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Sending Your Documents for Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

8.4 Audiobooks and MP3s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Audiobooks from Audible.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Audiobook Formats for Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Transferring MP3s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

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CHAPTER 9: Your Kindle and Amazon.com 135

9.1 Shopping for Kindle Content on Amazon.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Browsing the Kindle Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Searching the Kindle Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Getting the Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Ordering Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

9.2 Managing Your Kindle on Amazon.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Managing Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Managing Your Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Downloading Content from Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

9.3 Contacting Kindle Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

CHAPTER 10: Transferring Content to Your New Kindle 140

10.1 Transferring Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

10.2 Transferring Periodical Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

10.3 Transferring Personal Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

10.4 Transferring Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

10.5 Transferring MP3s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

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APPENDIX 150

Safety and compliance Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Servicing Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Headphone Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Exposure to Radio Frequency Energy (Model number D00511) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Exposure to Radio Frequency Energy (Model number D00701) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Compliance Information for Kindle Users Outside the US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

UL Certiﬁcation Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Product Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

KINDLE LICENSE AGREEMENT AND TERMS OF USE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Wireless Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Digital Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Patent Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Other Language Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

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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 your Kindle into a power source 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:

Volume Controls

Previous Page Button

Next Page Button

Home Button

Next Page Button

Menu Button

5-Way Controller

Keyboard

Back Button

Symbol Key

Text Key

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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 eight 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, see “Sending Personal Documents to 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. Press the Text key , then move the 5-way down so that the “Text-to-Speech” option is underlined. Press the 5-way to select “turn on.” 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.

Collections

To personalize and organize items, you can add your books, personal documents, and

Audible books to collections on your Home screen. Create a new collection from the

Home screen by pressing the Menu button and selecting “Create New Collection”, and

then type a name for the collection. You can add as many items as you wish to each

collection, and you can even add an item to more than one collection for more ﬂexible

organization.

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Clip Your Favorite Passages

While reading a book or a newspaper, have you ever 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.

Popular Highlights

See what the Kindle community thinks are the most interesting passages in the books you are reading. If several other readers have highlighted a particular passage, then

that passage will be highlighted in your book along with the total number of people

who have highlighted it.

You can also view a list of all the Popular Highlights in the book you’re reading by

pressing the Menu button and selecting “View Popular Highlights”.

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.”

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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.”

Social Networks

Share your notes and highlights with friends using social networks like Twitter.

Whenever you create a note or a highlight, press the ALT+ENTER keys +

to share it to your social network.

To set up your social network accounts on your Kindle, go to the Settings screen and

select “manage” next to Social Networks. The browser will launch and allow you to

link your Kindle to your social network accounts.

Stay in Sync

Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your reading location across your

Kindle(s) and other devices. For example, you can read a few pages on your iPhone

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

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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.

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, selecting “Go to...”, then selecting ‘table of contents’ and pressing the

5-way again.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.

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.

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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

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.

Previous Page 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. Press and hold this button to continuously page backward.

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

Amazon.com.

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. Press and hold this button to continuously page forward.

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, zoom into PDF documents,

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 you have set up a device password, you will be prompted to enter the password after turning on your Kindle or waking it from sleep.

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

Headphone Jack

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 — 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”.

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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