2 Kindle User’s Guide Contents Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started ......................................................................................................................... 5 Setting up your Kindle ............................................................................................................................... 5 Kindle controls ............................................................................................................................................. 6 Status indicators .......................................................................................................................................... 7 Wireless status indicators ............................................................................................................................................ 7 Battery status indicator ................................................................................................................................................. 7 VoiceView indicators ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 Activity indicator............................................................................................................................................................... 8 Parental Controls indicator .......................................................................................................................................... 8 Keyboard ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 Network connectivity ................................................................................................................................. 8 Airplane Mode .................................................................................................................................................................... 9 VoiceView screen reader ........................................................................................................................ 10 Special Offers and Sponsored Screensavers.................................................................................... 10 Screensaver ....................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Special Offer banners .................................................................................................................................................... 11 Chapter 2 Navigating Your Kindle ....................................................................................................... 12 The Kindle Home screen ......................................................................................................................... 12 Toolbars ........................................................................................................................................................ 12 Tap zones ...................................................................................................................................................... 16 Chapter 3 Acquiring & Managing Kindle Content ......................................................................... 18 Shop the Kindle Store anytime, anywhere ....................................................................................... 18 Recommended content............................................................................................................................ 18 Device and Cloud storage ....................................................................................................................... 19 Storage space .................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Transferring content from another Kindle ......................................................................................................... 20 Removing items from your Kindle ...................................................................................................... 20 Periodicals .......................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Managing your Kindle Library ............................................................................................................. 21 Sorting Content ................................................................................................................................................................ 21 Filtering Content ............................................................................................................................................................. 21 Navigating your library ................................................................................................................................................ 22 Cloud Collections ............................................................................................................................................................. 22 3 Kindle User’s Guide Contents Chapter 4 Reading Kindle Documents ............................................................................................... 24 Understanding Kindle display technology ....................................................................................... 24 Customizing your text display .............................................................................................................. 24 Comic and manga books ......................................................................................................................... 24 Children's books ........................................................................................................................................ 24 Images ............................................................................................................................................................ 25 Tables ............................................................................................................................................................. 25 Interacting with your content ............................................................................................................... 25 About This Book .............................................................................................................................................................. 26 Item menus ........................................................................................................................................................................ 26 Navigating a book ...................................................................................................................................... 26 Kindle Page Flip ............................................................................................................................................................... 26 Go To ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Dictionary ........................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Search ................................................................................................................................................................................... 28 Notes and highlights ...................................................................................................................................................... 29 Bookmarks ......................................................................................................................................................................... 30 Footnotes, endnotes, and chapter notes .............................................................................................................. 30 Before you go... ................................................................................................................................................................. 30 Chapter 5 Features .................................................................................................................................... 31 X-Ray .............................................................................................................................................................. 31 Word Wise .................................................................................................................................................... 31 Vocabulary Builder ................................................................................................................................... 31 Kindle FreeTime (Kindle for Kids in the UK) .................................................................................. 32 Setting up Kindle FreeTime (Kindle for Kids in the UK) .............................................................................. 32 Using Kindle FreeTime (Kindle for Kids in the UK) ....................................................................................... 33 Managing your Amazon household ...................................................................................................