Amazon Kindle DX (Free 3G) Graphite User Guide

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WELCOME 11

Congratulations! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Getting Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Navigating this Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Getting Registered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Easy-to-Read Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Wireless Access with Amazon Whispernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Your Choice of Text Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Your Choice of Number of Words per Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Adjust Screen Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Read PDF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Let Kindle Read to You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Look It Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Take It All with You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Shop Anytime, Anywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Automatic Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Peruse Your Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Search Your World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Collections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Clip Your Favorite Passages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Bookmark Your Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Add Your Own Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Stay in Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Convert Your Own Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Social Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Popular Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Learning More. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Getting Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Chapter 1 Getting Started with Your Kindle 24

1.1 Views of Kindle DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Top View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

1.2 Getting Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using the Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using the Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Application Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

1.3 Entering Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Lowercase and Uppercase Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Numbers, Punctuation, and Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

1.4 Screen Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

1.5 Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Whispernet Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Battery Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Activity Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

International Wireless Delivery (Kindle DX with international wireless only) . . . 39

Chapter 2 Getting to Know Kindle Content 40

2.1 The Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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Kindle Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Blogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Audible Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

PDF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Personal Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Home Screen Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Sort Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Changing How the Home Screen is Sorted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

The Home Screen Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

2.2 Organizing With Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Creating a Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Adding an Item to a Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Adding Multiple Items to a Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Viewing Collection Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Renaming a Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Deleting a Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Adding Collections from Another Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

2.3 Managing Your Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Removing Kindle Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

More about Managing Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

International Wireless Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Chapter 3 Reading on Kindle 55

3.1 Types of Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Newspapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Magazines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Blogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Personal Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Background Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

3.2 Content Formatting on Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

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Progress Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Changing the Text Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Adjusting the Number of Words per Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Increasing the Size of a Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

3.3 Moving from Place to Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Using the Menu to Get Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Navigating within a Periodical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Selecting Internal Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Viewing a Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Reading Across Multiple Kindles or Supported Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

3.4 Looking Up Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

The Lookup Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

3.5 Annotations and Clippings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Using Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Placing a Bookmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Viewing Your Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Removing a Bookmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Using Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Highlighting a Passage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Deleting a Highlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Displaying Popular Highlights in Your Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Viewing Popular Highlights in a Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Updating Popular Highlights in a Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Using Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Viewing Your Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Using Clippings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

More about My Clippings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

3.6 Sharing Notes and Highlights with Your Social Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Sharing Your Notes and Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

3.7 Reading PDF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Zooming into PDF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Using the PDF Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

3.8 Listening to Audio Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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Background Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Text-to-Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Chapter 4 Searching on Kindle 97

4.1 Introduction to Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Types of Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Searching What You are Currently Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Searching All Your Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Searching Remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Searching for Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Performing a Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

4.2 Search Results Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Search Results for a Specific Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Search Results for a Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

4.3 Performing Remote Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Searching Wikipedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Searching the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Searching the Kindle Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

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5.1 Getting Started at the Store. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Connecting to the Kindle Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

5.2 Kindle Store Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

The Kindle Storefront . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

The Store Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Browsing the Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Browse Listings Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Getting the Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Product Detail Page Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Additional Details for Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Adding Items to Your Wish List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

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5.3 Recommendations, Reviews, and Ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Recommended for You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Looking Up Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Writing Your Own Ratings and Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Entering a Rating and Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

5.4 Making Purchases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Trying a Sample Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Buying Your Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Returning an Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Chapter 6 Accessing the Web 118

6.1 Using Basic Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Entering a URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Using Bookmarks and Adding Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Using Next Page and Previous Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Selecting Links, Buttons, and Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Using History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

The Basic Web Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

6.2 Other Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Text Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Downloading Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Basic Web Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Chapter 7 Settings and Experimental 128

7.1 Adjusting Your Kindle Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Registering or Deregistering Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Registering Your Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Deregistering Your Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Personalizing Your Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Password Protecting Your Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Choosing Your Primary Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Changing Annotations Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Linking Your Kindle to Your Social Network Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

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The Settings Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

7.2 Experimental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Chapter 8 Kindle and Your Computer 140

8.1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Making the Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

8.2 Transferring Files from Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Managing Your Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Transferring Your Clippings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

8.3 Converting and Transferring Your Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Supported Formats for Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Sending Your Documents for Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

8.4 Audiobooks and MP3s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Audiobooks from Audible.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Audiobook Formats for Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Activation, Purchase, Download, and Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Transferring Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Transferring MP3s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Chapter 9 Your Kindle and Amazon 150

9.1 Shopping for Kindle Content on Amazon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Browsing the Kindle Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Searching the Kindle Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Getting the Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Ordering Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

9.2 Managing Your Kindle on Amazon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Downloading Content from Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

9.3 Contacting Kindle Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Kindle Support Web Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

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Kindle Support E-mail Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Kindle Support Phone Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Chapter 10 Transferring Content to Your New Kindle 155

10.1 Transferring Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

10.2 Transferring Periodical Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

10.3 Transferring Personal Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

10.4 Transferring Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

10.5 Transferring MP3s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Appendix A Troubleshooting 161

My Kindle won't turn on/My Kindle is unresponsive or appears frozen.. . . . . . . . . . 162

My wireless isn't working. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

I'm unable to download a book even though I see strong wireless signal strength. 163

I only received a partial download of my Kindle Content or my Kindle Content seems

to be corrupted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

I'm having problems transferring content from my computer to my Kindle. . . . . . . 163

Text-to-speech sounds distorted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

My Kindle doesn't charge when using the power adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

I can't open any of my books and receive an error message instead.. . . . . . . . . . . . 165

None of my problems are listed above. What should I do? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Appendix B Product Information 167

Safety and Compliance Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

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Maintaining Your Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Servicing Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Battery Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Headphone Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Wireless Safety and Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Turn Off Wireless When Flying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Be Careful Around Other Electronic Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Steps to Minimize Interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Watch for Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

FCC Compliance Statement for Model Number D00801,FCC ID: XDZ-1013 . . . . 170

Information regarding Exposure to Radio Frequency Energy for Model Number

D00801, FCC ID: XDZ-1013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Exposure to Radio Frequency Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Compliance Information for Kindle Users Outside the U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Recycling Kindle Properly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

UL Certification Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Product Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

KINDLE LICENSE AGREEMENT AND TERMS OF USE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Wireless Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Digital Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

WARRANTY INFORMATION FOR MODEL NUMBER D00801 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

ONE-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY FOR MODEL NUMBER D00801 . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Patent Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Other Language Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

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WELCOME

Thank you for purchasing Amazon Kindle DX. You are reading the Welcome section of

the Kindle DX User’s Guide. This section provides an overview of Kindle DX 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 the Next Page button

If your Kindle was a gift, you will need to register it to your Amaz

shop in the Kindle Store. Please look at the Getting Started instructions that came with

your Kindle for information on registering your device.

on account in order to

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Congratulations!

You are reading on your new Kindle DX.

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 DX User’s Guide side-by-side with the device, you can

download and print a PDF copy 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, mo

ve the 5-way controller up, down, left, or right to highlight your choice and

then press to confirm your choice.

You can press the Next Page or Previous Page button 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.

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Navigating this Guide

You navigate the Kindle DX User’s Guide just like any other book on your Kindle. To

navigate, follow these steps:

• To go forward or back one page at a time: use the Next Page and Previous

Page buttons.

• To go to the next or previous chapter: move the 5-way controller right or left.

• To go to the beginning of this guide, or to go to the Table of Contents:

press Menu and select “Go to”, and then select “table of contents” or “beginning”.

• To retrace your steps: press the Back button.

For more details on navigating your books and other content, see "Moving from Place

to Place" in Chapter 3.

Getting Registered

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) 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

the 5-way to select the character you require. Alternatively, you can register your Kindle

by visiting the Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon at:

http://www.amazon.com/manageyourkindle

to see a menu of characters and use

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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 Amazon 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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In a book or periodical you are currently reading, you can change the text size by

pressing the Text key , and using the 5-way controller to choose the size you

prefer; then 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.

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 , use 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 DX screen image can auto-rotate to match the way you are holding your

Kindle so you can see the entire width of a web page or magnify the page of a PDF file.

The screen changes automatically when you rotate your Kindle from portrait to

landscape or vice versa. Or, you can lock your screen to a particular 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.

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Read PDF Files

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

Just drag PDF files over USB to your Kindle 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). If you e-mail a PDF document to your Kindle’s e-mail address, we will

wirelessly deliver the PDF file directly to your Kindle via Whispernet, for a fee.

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. While reading a book or periodical, press the Text key

then use the 5-way controller to underline “turn on” for "Text-to-Speech". 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 a built-in dictionary, 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 bottomof 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. To choose a different dictionary, see "Choosing Your Primary Dictionary"

in Chapter 7.

Take It All with You

Kindle DX can store over 3600 digital books, personal documents, newspapers, blogs,

magazines, and audiobooks, 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.

To display the list of content on your Kindle, press the Home button. Use the 5-way

controller to underline the item you want to open and then press the 5-way to open the

item. To delete content on your Kindle, use the 5-way controller to underline the item

you want to delete. Move the 5-way to the left to select “remove from device” and then

press the 5-way to complete the removal of the item.

To transfer previously deleted content from Amaz

Whispernet service must be on. From Home, select "Archived Items." This shows all of

the content stored at Amazon. 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.

on back to your Kindle, the wireless

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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.

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, 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

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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, Google, and the Web.

Collections

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

audiobooks 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.

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.

Bookmark Your Reading

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

also add a bookmark to any page in a book or PDF document 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 from the book

you're reading and selecting "View 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 at Amazon 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 "View My Notes & Marks."

Stay in Sync

Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your reading location across your

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

iPhone or Blackberry device and pick up right where you left off when you return to your

Kindle. For a complete list of supported devices, visit the Kindle Support page on

Amazon at:

http://www.amazon.com/kindlesupport

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). 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

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computer for free. If you e-mail a PDF to your Kindle DX, it will be sent to your device

with no conversion.

Social Networks

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

Facebook. 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 S

select "manage" next to Social Networks. The browser will launch and allow you to link

your Kindle to your social network accounts.

ettings screen and

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". For more

information, see "Displaying Popular Highlights in Your Books" in Chapter 3.

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.

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The “Table of Contents” for the Kindle DX 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 "Learning More".

Underlined words indicate a link to somewhere else in the material you are reading,

like a footnote, a chapter, or a website. 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 leave the Kindle DX 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 seven seconds, then release. The

Kindle screen will go blank and the device will turn off.

Getting Assistance

If you ever need assistance, you can use the Web or your telephone to contact us. See

"Contacting Kindle Support" in 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 DX 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 DX

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.

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Volume controls— controls the headphone or speak

er volume for audiobooks,

background music, and text-to-speech.

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

hived at

Amazon.

Previous Page button— tak

es you to the previous page in your reading material.

Next Page button— takes you to the next page in your reading material.

Menu button— displays application and navig

ation choices that are related to the

screen you are viewing.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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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Alt key — provides a way to enter numbers. Hold down the Alt key and press

the appropriate letter in the top row of the keyboard to enter the number you want.

Alternatively, you can press and release the Alt key and then press the desired letter.

Shift key — makes the next key pressed a capital letter.

Top View

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.

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Tip: Your Kindle will also go to sleep by itself after twenty 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.

Bottom View

The bottom of your Kindle contains the charge indicator light, a micro-USB Power port,

and two speakers.

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*. The micro-USB/Power port

is located just to the right of the headphone jack. 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 co

overheat. If the charge indicator light does not light up, make sure that the USB cable

vered by anything that could cause it to

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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.

Charge indicator light — indicates the battery status while your Kindle is charging.

The charge indicator light turns from yellow to green when the battery is fully charged.

The charge indicator light surrounds the power switch, on the bottom right edge of

your Kindle.

* 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.

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 place the device flat on a table

and use the tips of their fingers to press the keys.

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. The Shift

key is located at the bottom left corner of the keyboard.

Numbers, Punctuation, and Symbols

To enter a number, hold down the Alt key and press the appropriate letter in the

top row of the keyboard to select the desired number

or a symbol that is not shown, press the Symbol key

keyboard. You will see a menu of punctuation marks and symbols.

. If you need a punctuation mark

on the bottom row of the

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

entry box. Press the Symbol key again to dismiss the Symbol menu.

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1.4 Screen Rotation

The Kindle DX screen image can rotate to match the way you are holding your Kindle.

The display changes accordingly from portrait to landscape. So you can now magnify

the page of a PDF or see the entire width of a web page using only your movements.

The buttons work the same in either rotation, but the 5-way controller movements are

switched to match the rotation.

By default, the Kindle DX auto-rotates the screen image based on your orientation. 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 options are displayed at the bottom of the menu.

2. Move the 5-way down to underline the Screen Rotation options, if not already

underlined.

3. Move the 5-way left or right to "auto," which automatically adjusts the display

based on your motion. Or, select one of the four options to lock the display in a set

orientation: portrait, landscape with the turn page buttons on the bottom, portrait

with the keyboard at the top and the turn page buttons to the left, and landscape

with the turn page buttons at the top.

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

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

Tip: Want the Next and Prev Page buttons on the left? Simply rotate the device 180

degrees so that the buttons are on the left.

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1.5 Status Indicators

At the top of every screen, you 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, sync your devices, receive your

subscriptions, or sync to the 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 it on by pressing the Menu

button, and using the 5-way controller to navigate to "Turn Wireless On."

- Kindle DX with international wireless. EDGE and GPRS wireless networks

are slower than the 3G Whispernet service. Your Kindle will automatically switc

faster 3G network when available.

- Kindle DX. 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.

h to the

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When you press the Menu button, icons indicating the speed of your Whispernet

service appear to the left side of the signal bars.

Battery Status Indicators

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

fully charged. 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 not derive enough power 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.

The battery state cannot be determined. Restart your Kindle so that the battery

state can be accurately determined. If the question mark continues to be displayed after

a restart then contact Customer Support.

Keep in mind that subscribing to multiple blogs that update frequently may increase

power consumption and decrease the bat

increase power consumption.

tery life. Weak signal coverage can also

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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International Wireless Delivery (Kindle DX 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 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 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 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

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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. To keep an issue, see "More about Managing Items".

Collections

Collection names appear in an italicized font to differentiate them from books and other

items. The number of items in each collection is displayed in parentheses to the right

of the collection's name.

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.

Audible Audiobooks

Audible 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.

Personal Documents

In addition to purchased content, you can read your personal documents (for example,

PDF files, text files, Microsoft Word, HTML, or image files) on Kindle. You can attach the

files to an e-mail message and send the files 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. You can also transfer your

personal documents to your Kindle by attaching your Kindle to your computer. For

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more information on transferring, converting, and e-mailing your personal documents,

see Chapter 8.

Home Screen Features

What you see on your Home screen varies depending on what reading materials you

have purchased, and how you choose to sort this list. The screen sample and list below

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

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

screen.

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

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New 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.

Title— the title of the item.

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.

PDF title— the "pdf" label indicates the file is a PDF.

Collection — the title of the collection. The number of items in the collection is

displayed in parentheses.

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.

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

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

the date is listed.

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

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

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

Page button to navigate the pages.

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.

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

opened items first.

Title— sor

Author— sor

ts your content alphabetically by title of the item.

ts your content alphabetically by the author's last name or publisher's

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

Collections — sor

ts your content by first displaying collections that have been most

recently used, then by items that have been most recently used but are not assigned to

a collection. Items that are assigned to a collection are not displayed.

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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 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.

Tip: If your Home page is sorted alphabetically by either Title or Author, press a letter

key and then press the 5-way to go to the first item starting with that letter.

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.

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Turn Wireless Off/On— turns the Whispernet wireless service off or on. You can turn

wireless off to prolong battery life. Any operations that require a wireless connection

will occur the next time you turn wireless on.

Shop in Kindle Store— tak

View Archived Items— tak

es you to the Kindle Storefront.

es you to Archived Items where you can view and

wirelessly re-download content you are storing at Amazon.

Search— brings up the S

earch text entry page for submitting a word or phrase to

search for.

Create New Collection— allows you to enter a name for a new collection of items.

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Sync & Check for Items— connects to Amazon to download any newly available

items and sync the furthest page read and annotations for all the books on your device.

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.

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2.2 Organizing With Collections

You can create collections to personalize the way you organize your books, personal

documents, and Audible books, and to make it easier to find items.

Creating a Collection

You can create as many collections as you need. To create a collection follow these

steps:

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

2. Press the Menu button and use the 5-way to select "Create New Collection".

3. Use the keyboard to enter the name of your collection.

4. Use the 5-way to select "save".

5. Your collection is created and displayed on the Home screen.

The very first time that you create a collection, the sort order changes to sort by

collections on the Home screen. To change the sort order, move the 5-way up to

underline "By Collections", and then move the 5-way to the right to choose another sort

option.

Adding an Item to a Collection

Collections give you the flexibility to add an item to as many collections as needed. For

example, you can add the same book to collections called "History" and "My Favorite

Authors".

To add an item to one or more collections, follow these steps:

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

2. Use the 5-way to navigate to the item you want to add to a collection.

3. Move the 5-way to the right to view the item's detail page.

4. On the item's detail page, use the 5-way to select "Add to Collection…"

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5. A screen showing all of your collections and the number of items in each is

displayed. Use the 5-way to select each collection you want to add the item to. If

you have many collections you can use the Next Page and Prev Page buttons to see

them all.

6. After you add the item to a collection the item count for the collection is increased

and a checkmark appears to the right of the collection. You can also remove the

item from a collection by using the 5-way to select the collection again and the

checkmark will disappear.

7. When you are done adding the item to your collections, use the 5-way to select

Done at the bottom of the screen. You can also press the Home or Back buttons

and your changes will be saved.

Adding Multiple Items to a Collection

Collections also let you efficiently add multiple items to a single collection. This is

useful for organizing similar types of items into one collection in a single pass.

To add multiple items to a collection, follow these steps:

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

2. Use the 5-way to navigate to the collection you want to add items to.

3. There are two ways to start the process:

Move the 5-way to the right to view the collection's detail page. On the collection's

detail page use the 5-way to select "Add/Remove Items".

-or-

Use the 5-way to select the collection and see all the items in the collection. Press

the Menu button and select "Add/Remove Items".

4. A screen showing all of your items is displayed. Use the 5-way to select each item

you want to add to the collection. If you have many items you can use the Next

Page and Prev Page buttons to see them all.

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5. After you add each item to the collection a checkmark appears to the right of the

item. You can also remove the item from the collection by using the 5-way to select

the item again and the checkmark will disappear.

6. When you are done adding the item to your collections, use the 5-way to select

Done at the bottom of the screen. You can also press the Home or Back buttons

and your work will be saved.

Viewing Collection Details

The collection details page lets you see information about a collection, the actions

available for the collection, and the cover of the most recently read item in the

collection.

To view a collection's details, follow these steps:

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

2. Use the 5-way to navigate to the collection.

3. Move the 5-way to the right to view the collection's detail page.

4. Use the 5-way to select an action or press the Back button to exit.

Renaming a Collection

You can rename your collection if you made a mistake when creating it or if you want

to update it.

To rename a collection, follow these steps:

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

2. Use the 5-way to navigate to the collection.

3. Move the 5-way to the right to view the collection's detail page.

4. Use the 5-way to select "Rename Collection".

5. Use the keyboard and 5-way to edit the name of your collection.

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6. After you finish editing the name, use the 5-way to select "save".

Deleting a Collection

You can delete collections if you're no longer using them or you want to reorganize

them. Deleting a collection will never delete the items in the collection. Any item that

is in a deleted collection will stay on your Kindle. If the item is not associated with

another collection, it will reappear in the Home screen.

To delete a collection, follow these steps:

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

2. Use the 5-way to navigate to the collection.

3. Move the 5-way to the right to view the collection's detail page.

4. Use the 5-way to select "Delete Collection".

5. You will see a confirmation box asking you whether you want to delete the

collection or not.

6. Use the 5-way to select either "ok" or "cancel".

Adding Collections from Another Kindle

If you have more than one Kindle registered to your Amazon account, you can add the

collections from another Kindle and merge them with collections on your current

Kindle. This is useful if you've set up an organization system on another Kindle and you

want use it on your current Kindle. The new collections will appear in Home on your

current Kindle. Kindle books from the other device can be manually downloaded from

Archived Items and they will appear in Home.

For example, suppose you have two devices named Tom's Kindle and Judy's Kindle. If

Tom's Kindle already includes some collections, you can copy those collections and

merge them with the collections on Judy's Kindle. After you copy the collections from

Tom's Kindle to Judy's Kindle, then both devices will have the same collections.

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If Tom's Kindle included "Marley & Me" in the "Summer Reading" collection, and

"Marley & Me" was already on Judy's Kindle when collections from Tom's Kindle were

added, "Marley & Me" will automatically appear in "Summer Reading". If Tom's Kindle

included "The Lost Symbol" in the "Summer Reading" collection, and if you download

"The Lost Symbol" from Archived Items onto Judy's Kindle, it will automatically appear

in Home.

Note that if you later decide to remove "Marley & Me" from the "Summer Reading"

collection on Tom's Kindle, your changes are not synchronized with Judy's Kindle.

"Marley & Me" will remain in the "Summer Reading" collection on Judy's Kindle.

To merge collections, follow these steps:

1. Manually transfer any books from Archived Items to your current Kindle. See

"Transferring Books" in Chapter 10 for more information.

2. On your current Kindle, if you are not already on the Home screen, press the Home

button.

3. Make sure that wireless is turned on. To turn wireless on, press the Menu button

and select “Turn Wireless On”.

4. Navigate to Archived Items. If you have many items you may find it easier to press

the Menu button and select “View Archived Items”. (This menu item is dimmed

unless you have at least one item in Archived Items.)

5. When in Archived Items use the 5-way to select the item labeled Add Other Device

Collections.

6. In the Add Other Device Collections view you will see a list of all Kindles that are

associated with your Amazon account. Use the 5-way to select the other Kindle

that has the collections you want to add. You can repeat this step for as many

devices as you wish to add collections from.

7. After the collections are merged, press the Home button to return to the Home

screen. You will see the collections that were copied over and merged together

with the collections already on your current Kindle.

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2.3 Managing Your Content

All books you purchase are automatically backed up on Amazon. 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 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."

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 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.

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

Amazon.

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. 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 DX 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,

audiobooks, 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.

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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.

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 DX 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). You can rotate your device sideways for widescreen viewing. For

more information on the unique aspects of reading PDF files on Kindle, see

PDF Files".

If you have PDF files, or files formatted as text, Microsoft Word, HTML, 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. For more information on transferring,

converting, and e-mailing your personal documents, see

Chapter 8.

"Reading

For details on fees, see the "Your individual charges" section of the Manage Your Kindle

page on Amazon.

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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 music" 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.

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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 bar. As you progress further into the content, you will see a

solid bar growing longer to indicate your overall reading progress. The progress bar

shows structural marks within content such as 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 eight

sizes for reading books, periodicals, and personal documents 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

choices are displayed as well as controls for T

2. Move the 5-way left or right to the new text siz

new text size immediately).

3. Press the 5-way or the Text key

located on the bottom row of the keyboard. The text size

ext-to-Speech.

e that you want to use (you see the

to confirm your choice.

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

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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 number

of words per line choices are displayed below the eight text 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. Y

that rotates if necessary to maximize the use of the display.

4. Press the 5-way (or any key or but

content.

ou will see a expanded view of the picture

ton, except the Home button) to return to your

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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 using the 5-way controller to go to the next or previous 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.

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

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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.

Go to...— allows you to move to another location in the item you are reading. Choose

one of these options:

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.

beginning— tak

es you to the beginning of the book. This is usually the first

chapter, but may be a foreword, the table of contents, or some other location.

location— enter a location number to jump to in the content, and then select this

option.

Sync to Furthest Page Read— connects to Amaz

on Whispernet 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.

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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— displays a cursor so you can highlight a passage or create

a note. See "Using Highlights" and "Using Notes" for additional details on how to create

a note or highlight.

View My Notes & Marks — displays a page containing all of your current item's

notes, highlights, and bookmarks.

View Popular Highlights — displays a page containing all of your current item's

Popular Highlights. This option is dimmed if you've turned off Popular Highlights in

Kindle Settings.

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

options:

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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 mag

azine issue as one to be stored

in your Kindle until you remove it.

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— tak

you press the 5-way.

View Articles List— tak

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es you to the sections list of a newspaper or magazine when

es 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.

To navigate to a particular section, use the 5-w

ay controller to underline the section title

and then press the 5-way to select. Selecting the number to the right of the section title

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

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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 and

return to where you were last reading in a blog or to the Sections List in a magazine or

newspaper, 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.

To select a link:

1. Move the 5-way over the link.

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2. The cursor changes to look like this:

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

4. Kindle takes you to the link

5. Press the Back button to go bac

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).

ed location.

k to where you were.

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 or Supported Devices

If you read the same Kindle Store book across multiple Kindles or supported devices

(for example, Kindle for iPhone or Kindle for PC), 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. For

a complete list of supported devices, visit the Kindle Store on the Amazon website.

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

across multiple Kindles. If you would lik

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 Whisper

sync will no longer sync bookmarks, notes, highlights, or the

e to turn Whispersync off, follow these steps:

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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

Dictionaries" 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. Use the 5-way to move the cursor 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.

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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. Bookmarks can only be created in books and

PDF documents. Annotations are specific to the content you are reading, so each book,

periodical, or personal document 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.

Kindle also gathers the annotations and bookmarks 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. Bookmarks can only be created

in books and PDF documents.

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 and bookmarks 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, 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

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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 to a book or PDF document. 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 along with your annotations.

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

Notes & Marks." See "Viewing Your Annotations" for more information

Placing a Bookmark

To place a bookmark in a book or PDF document:

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

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.

, indicating that the

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Viewing Your Bookmarks

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

Bookmarks are listed in the order in which 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.

You can also delete a bookmark on the page by holding down the Alt key and

pressing the "B" key.

To remove several bookmarks at one time:

1. Press the Menu button.

2. Move the 5-way controller down until "View My Notes & Marks" is underlined.

Press the 5-way to select it.

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

4. Press the Delete key .

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you have remo

ved all unwanted bookmarks.

ant to remove.

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

press the 5-w

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ay 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 "View 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. Press Menu and choose “Add a Note or Highlight”. This displays a blinking cursor.

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

3. Press the 5-way.

4. Move the cursor right (or left) to where you want your highlight to end. You can

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

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

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

Deleting a Highlight

To remove a highlight while reading a book, follow these steps:

1. Press Menu and choose “Add a Note or Highlight”. This displays a blinking cur

2. Navigate the cursor over the highlight you w

3. Press the Delete key .

To remove a highlight from your list of highlights, follow these steps:

ant to remove.

sor.

1. Press the Menu button.

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2. Use the 5-way controller to underline "View My Notes & Marks". 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. Use the 5-way controller to select "Close Notes & Marks" and press the 5-way to

exit. You can also exit this view by pressing the Back button.

Displaying Popular Highlights in Your Books

Popular Highlights help our readers focus on the passages and ideas in a book that are

the most meaningful to the greatest number of readers. We anonymously collect all the

highlights added to a book by Kindle customers and merge them together to determine

a book's most frequently-highlighted passages. If a passage in a book is a Popular

Highlight, we will highlight that passage and we will also display the total number of

people who have highlighted that passage.

Popular Highlights are available only for books, and not for periodicals or personal

documents. By default, Popular Highlights are displayed in your books, but you can

turn them off if you don't want to see them or if you don’t want your highlights to be

anonymously included in Popular Highlights.

To turn Popular Highlights on or off:

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

2. Press the Menu button.

3. Use the 5-way to underline "Set

4. Use the 5-way to underline "turn on" or "turn of

setting and press to select.

tings" and press to select.

f" next to the "Popular Highlights"

ton.

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Viewing Popular Highlights in a Book

If Popular Highlights are turned on, as you read a book, you can see what the Kindle

community thinks are the most interesting passages in that book. Those passages will

already be highlighted and will also display the total number of people who have

highlighted that passage.

Tip: If Popular Highlights are turned on, you can press the Return key to hide

or show the number of highlighters.

To view a list of all Popular Highlights in a book, follow these steps:

1. While reading the book, press the Menu button.

2. Use the 5-way to underline "View Popular Highlights" and press to select. A list of

the book's Popular Highlights appears. By default, the list is sorted by location. If

this option appears dimmed, make sure you enabled the Popular Highlights

feature in Settings. See "Displaying Popular Highlights in Your Books" for

instructions on enabling Popular Highlights. If Popular Highlights are enabled but

this option still appears dimmed, then the book has no Popular Highlights.

3. To sort the list by the most popular highlights, use the 5-way to underline the Sort

options.

4. Use the 5-way to underline the Most P

5. Press the 5-way to select Most Popular. The list immediately c

sort order.

6. To close the Popular Highlights list, use the 5-way to underline "Close Popular

Highlights", and then press the 5-way to select it.

A book's Popular Highlights will change over time, and highlights that were once

opular sort option.

hanges to the new

popular may be displaced by other

in the book. If there are certain passages in the book that you want to be able to refer

back to, then highlight those passages yourself.

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s as readers continue to add or remove highlights

If you do not want your own highlighted passages to be counted in Popular Highlights,

you must turn off Annotations Backup in Settings. Keep in mind that if you turn off

Annotations Backup, your annotations and highlights will not be backed up by Amazon,

and they will not be displayed on other devices registered to your Amazon account.

Also, if you lose or damage your device, there will be no way to retrieve your

annotations and highlights.

Not all books contain Popular Highlights, and some books do not have enough

highlighted passages to have even a single Popular Highlight passage. When you are

reading such a book, if you press the Menu button you will notice that the "View

Popular Highlights" option will appear dimmed.

Updating Popular Highlights in a Book

Popular Highlights may not be available for the books you already own. If a book you

already own does not include them, you can check for Popular Highlights by following

these steps:

1. Press the Home button.

2. Press the Menu button.

3. Use the 5-way to underline "Sync & Check for Items" and press to select.

4. If there are Popular Highlights for the book, then you will see them the next time

you open the book. If you press the Menu button while reading the book and the

"View Popular Highlights" option is still dimmed, then no Popular Highlights are

available. Try checking again later.

Using Notes

You can add notes on what you are reading. Kindle stores all your notes for the current

content in your annotations. You can view them at any time by pressing the Menu

button and selecting "View My Notes & Marks." See

"Viewing Your Annotations" for

more information.

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To add a note, follow these steps:

1. Press Menu and choose “Add a Note or Highlight”. This displays a blinking cursor.

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

your thoughts.

3. Type your note.

4. 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 while reading, follow these steps:

1. Press Menu and choose “Add a Note or Highlight”. This displays a blinking cursor.

2. Use the 5-way to move the cursor over the note's number.

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

4. Press the Return key to edit the note.

5. Use the keyboard to make your changes.

6. Navigate the 5-way over "save note" and press the 5-way.

To edit a note while viewing your notes and marks, follow these steps:

1. Press the Menu button and select "V

2. Use the 5-way to select the note you w

3. Press the Return key

to edit the note.

iew My Notes & Marks".

ant to edit.

4. Use the keyboard to make your changes.

5. Navigate the 5-way over "save note" and press the 5-w

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ay.

To delete a note while reading, follow these steps:

1. Press Menu and choose “Add a Note or Highlight”. This displays a blinking cursor.

2. Use the 5-way to move the cursor over the note's number.

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

4. Press the Delete key to delete the note.

To delete a note while viewing your notes and marks, follow these steps:

1. Press the Menu button and select "View My Notes & Marks".

2. Move the 5-way down to select the note you want to delete.

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 "View

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, use the 5-w

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. S

"Using Clippings" for more information.

ay to navigate up or down to select the bookmark,

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,

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and clippings you have made across all your content. Later, you can view the file or

copy it to your computer as a text 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 them with others.

To clip an article in a periodical:

1. Go to the periodical article that you want to clip.

2. Press the Menu button.

3. Use the 5-way controller to navigate 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. Use the

5-way to navigate 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.

More about My Clippings

You can edit the "My Clippings" 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.

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5. Make the changes and save the edited file as a text file.

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

7. Eject 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 use the 5-way to navigate down until "My Clippings" is

underlined.

2. Use the 5-way to navigate to the left to highlight “delete”.

3. Press the 5-way to confirm.

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 Sharing Notes and Highlights with Your Social

Network

You can link your Kindle to your social network accounts such as Facebook and Twitter

so that you can share your notes and highlights with others in your social network.

Sharing your notes and highlights is a great way to tell others about the books and

periodicals you're reading.

Before you can share your notes and highlights, you must first link your Kindle to your

social network accounts. See "Linking Your Kindle to Your Social Network Accounts" in

Chapter 7 for more information.

Sharing Your Notes and Highlights

Sharing your notes and highlights with your social networks is easy once you've linked

your Kindle to your social network accounts. For example, on Twitter, your note is

added as a tweet in your Twitter stream along with a link to the passage you highlighted

in the book or article.

To share a new note, follow these steps:

1. While reading a book or periodical, press Menu and choose “Add a Note or

Highlight”. This displays a blinking cursor.

2. Move the cursor to the location where you want to add your note.

3. Begin typing your note. Notes must be no longer than 100 characters.

4. Use the 5-way to highlight "save & share" and press the 5-way.

To share a new highlight, follow these steps:

1. While reading a book or periodical, press Menu and choose “Add a Note or

Highlight”. This displays a blinking cursor.

2. Move the cursor to the location where you want to start highlighting.

3. Press the 5-way.

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4. Use the 5-way to move the curso right (or left) to where you want your highlight to

end.

5. Press the Alt+Return keys

6. (Optional) Type the message you w

+ .

ant to tweet or share. Keep in mind that your

message must be no longer than 100 characters.

7. Use the 5-way to highlight "share" and press to select it.

To share a note or highlight that you've already created, follow these steps:

1. While reading a book or periodical, press Menu and select "View My Notes &

Marks".

2. Use the 5-way to select the note or highlight that you want to share.

3. Press the Alt+Return keys + .

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3.7 Reading PDF Files

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

PDF files are not supported.)

When your Kindle is held in 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.

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

of the screen to improve readability.

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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 as an overall percentage.The bottom of the screen also displays the

current page number, as well as the total number of pages of the current document.

Zooming into PDF Files

Pressing the Text key will let you choose zoom options for a PDF page.

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fit-to-screen— displays the PDF by matching the width of the page to the width

of your Kindle's screen; this is the default (normal) size. Pressing the Back button

while zoomed in returns the view to normal size.

150%— displays the PDF contents at one and one half times the normal siz

200%— displays the PDF contents at twice the normal siz

300%— displays the PDF contents at three times the normal size.

actual size— displays the PDF at 100% zoom as it would appear when printed.

After selecting a zoom option, a selection frame appears; you can move the frame

using the 5-way. To move the frame in small increments, hold down the Shift key

while using the 5-way to move left or right. Once you've selected the area you

wish to zoom into, select it by pressing the 5-way.

Once you are zoomed in, you can use the 5-way to pan left, right, up and down within

each page. The black bars at the right and bottom of the display indicate which portion

of the overall page you are viewing. If you press the Next Page or Prev Page buttons,

the page will change and the view will remain zoomed in. Press the Back button to

dismiss the zoomed-in view and return to normal size.

Tip: To pan in small increments, hold down the Shift key while using the 5-way.

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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 dimmed

in the menu.

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Go to …— allows you to move to another location in the PDF document. Choose one

of these options:

cover— tak

es you to the cover page of the item you are reading.

table of contents— this option is not available for PDF documents.

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

page— type the number of the page you want to jump to and select this option.

Search This Document — displays the Search box 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.

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3.8 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 your reading material (where allowed by the rights holder). (For information about

transferring audiobooks or MP3 files from your computer 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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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.

Previous Section— mo

Back 30 Seconds— mo

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ves backwards in the audiobook to the previous section.

ves 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. Use the 5-way to navigate down until "Experimental" is underlined and press the

5-way to select it.

4. Use the 5-way to navigate down until "play music" 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. Use the 5-way to navigate down until "Experimental" is underlined. Press the 5-way

to select.

4. Use the 5-way to navigate down until "play music" is underlined. Press the 5-way

to select.

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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.

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 .

2. Use the 5-way to navigate down so that the "T

Press the 5-way to select "turn on." 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.

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ext-to-Speech" option is underlined.

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 their content, then "Text-to-Speech" will be dimmed 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. Text-to-Speech continues playing even if you put your Kindle to

sleep by sliding and releasing the power button. Sleeping your Kindle while

Text-to-Speech is playing allows you to continue listening but locks all of the keys and

buttons so you don't inadvertently press one.

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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.

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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, use the 5-way

to navigate to the right to highlight "find." Or, to choose the type of search, continue

navigating to the 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.

The screen shows the titles of the items that contain your searc

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.

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h term and indicates

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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Amazon Kindle DX (Free 3G) Graphite User Guide

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

WELCOME

Congratulations!

Getting Around

Navigating this Guide

Getting Registered

Easy-to-Read Display

Wireless Access with Amazon Whispernet

Your Choice of Text Size

Your Choice of Number of Words per Line

Adjust Screen Rotation

Read PDF Files

Let Kindle Read to You

Look It Up

Take It All with You

Shop Anytime, Anywhere

Automatic Delivery

Peruse Your Periodicals

Search Your World

Collections

Clip Your Favorite Passages

Bookmark Your Reading

Add Your Own Notes

Stay in Sync

Convert Your Own Documents

Social Networks

Popular Highlights

Learning More

Getting Assistance

CHAPTER 1 Getting Started with Your Kindle

1.1 Views of Kindle DX

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

International Wireless Delivery (Kindle DX with international wireless only)

CHAPTER 2 Getting to Know Kindle Content

2.1 The Home Screen

Kindle Books

Periodicals

Collections

Blogs

Audible Audiobooks

PDF files

Personal Documents

Home Screen Features

Sort Options

Changing How the Home Screen is Sorted

The Home Screen Menu

2.2 Organizing With Collections

Creating a Collection

Adding an Item to a Collection

Adding Multiple Items to a Collection

Viewing Collection Details

Renaming a Collection

Deleting a Collection

Adding Collections from Another Kindle

2.3 Managing Your Content

Removing Kindle Content

More about Managing Items

International Wireless Delivery

CHAPTER 3 Reading on Kindle

3.1 Types of Content

Books

Newspapers

Magazines