Kindle User’s Guide , 5th Edition 2 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 Activity indicator............................................................................................................................................................... 7 Parental Controls indicator .......................................................................................................................................... 8 Keyboard ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 Network connectivity ................................................................................................................................. 8 Managing your saved Wi-Fi passwords ................................................................................................................. 9 Airplane Mode .................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Special Offers and Sponsored Screensavers.................................................................................... 10 Screensaver ....................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Special Offer banners .................................................................................................................................................... 10 Chapter 2 Navigating Your Kindle ....................................................................................................... 11 The Kindle Home screen ......................................................................................................................... 11 Toolbars ........................................................................................................................................................ 11 Tap zones ...................................................................................................................................................... 15 Chapter 3 Acquiring & Managing Kindle Content ......................................................................... 17 Shop the Kindle Store anytime, anywhere ....................................................................................... 17 Recommended content............................................................................................................................ 17 Device and Cloud storage ....................................................................................................................... 18 Storage space .................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Transferring content from another Kindle ......................................................................................................... 18 Removing items from your Kindle ...................................................................................................... 19 Periodicals .......................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Managing your Kindle Library ............................................................................................................. 20 Sorting Content ................................................................................................................................................................ 20 Filtering Content ............................................................................................................................................................. 20 Navigating your library ................................................................................................................................................ 21 Cloud Collections ............................................................................................................................................................. 21 Chapter 4 Reading Kindle Documents ............................................................................................... 23 Understanding Kindle display technology ....................................................................................... 23 Kindle User’s Guide , 5th Edition 3 Contents Customizing your text display .............................................................................................................. 23 Comic and manga books ......................................................................................................................... 23 Children's books ........................................................................................................................................ 24 Images ............................................................................................................................................................ 24 Tables ............................................................................................................................................................. 24 Interacting with your content ............................................................................................................... 24 About This Book .............................................................................................................................................................. 25 Item menus ........................................................................................................................................................................ 25 Navigating a book ...................................................................................................................................... 25 Page Flip .............................................................................................................................................................................. 26 Go To ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Dictionary ........................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Search ................................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Notes and highlights ...................................................................................................................................................... 28 Bookmarks ......................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Footnotes, endnotes, and chapter notes .............................................................................................................. 29 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 .................................................................................................... 33 Goodreads on Kindle ...............................................................................................................................