The Complete 2012 User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle: Covers All Current Kindles Including the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, and Kindle (23 page)

You can shop for more periodicals in the Newsstand Store by tapping Store at the upper right. Tap Library to return to the library.

The Books library contains books that you've bought from Amazon as well as sideloaded from your computer.

Books can be sorted by author, by most recent, and by title. By tapping Menu, you can select either grid view or list view. Pressing the Search icon (the magnifying glass) lets your type text into the Search bar to find books.

By long-pressing an item, you'll see a pop-up that lets you remove or add the item to favorites, and remove from device or download.

You can shop for more Books in the Book Store by tapping Store at the upper right. Tap Library to return to the library.

The Music library contains music that you've bought from the Amazon Music Store as well as sideloaded from your computer.

By tapping one of the icons at the top of the screen, you can view music by playlists, artists, albums, and songs. Playlists are an especially useful way to organize your music- see
Listening to Music
for details.

By tapping Menu at the bottom of the screen, you can view downloaded music, access music settings, and get help with the Music library.

Pressing the Search icon (the magnifying glass) lets you type text into the Search bar to find music.

Long-press any item in the Music library to get a pop-up with options for that item.

Tap Store to shop in the Music Store. Tap Library to return to the library.

Within the Video library, you can view either Movies or TV shows. Tap on an item to see details and to watch the movie now or download it for watching later offline. Caution: The Fire can only hold about 10 movies, so you will probably want to keep all of your movies in the Cloud except for when you have a specific movie to watch and you know you won’t have a Wi-Fi connection- such as on a plane.

By tapping Menu at the bottom of the screen, you can access video settings and get help with the Video library.

Pressing the Search icon (the magnifying glass icon) lets you type text into the Search bar to find videos.

Long-press any item in the Video library to get a pop-up with the options of downloading or watching now.

Tap Store to shop in the Video Store. Tap Library to return to the library.

This library contains Amazon's Kindle Fire User's Guide which comes with each Fire, as well as your personal documents. Documents can be e-mailed to your Fire via its unique e-mail address or sideloaded with a USB cable.

Docs can be sorted by recent or by title.

Long-pressing a doc lets you add or remove it from Favorites or delete it.

By tapping Menu, you can view Docs in grid or list view. You can also tap the Search icon to search for your docs.

The Fire comes with a number of built-in apps, and more can be bought (many are free) from the Amazon Apps Store. Apps can be sorted by recent and by title.

Long-pressing an app gives you the option of adding or removing it from favorites. Tap the Search icon to search for apps.

Tap Store to shop in the App Store. Tap Library to return to the library.

The Fire treats web pages as library items. For more information, see
Browsing the web
.

Another way to keep your Kindle uncluttered is to remove items that you've finished with and don't need for immediate reference. Everything purchased from the Kindle Store is permanently archived for you in Amazon's Cloud Service. Even free items are archived. Personal documents are archived as long as you e-mail them to the @kindle.com document conversion address assigned to your Kindle.

Personal documents and anything you've put on your Kindle via USB, are not archived and are completely and permanently removed if you delete them. If you want to save them, keep a copy on your computer.

To archive an item, go to the Home screen, select it with the five-way controller and then press right. Select “Remove from Device” and click to remove the item.

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From the Home screen, find the item, long-press it, and then select “Move to Archived Items” from the pop-up.

Find the item in the Carousel, Favorites, or in the appropriate library, long-press it, and then select “Remove from Device.”

Wireless 3G or Wi-Fi must be connected in order to restore items from the Amazon archive.

From the Home page, press Menu and select “View Archived Items." The list is presented in alphabetical order by title. Navigate to the item you wish to restore and press the five-way controller right then click to restore it. On the Touch, long- press the item and select “Add to Home.”

Navigate to the item in your Favorites or in the appropriate library, long-press it, and select “Download.” Items in Favorites and the libraries can be either in the Cloud or on your device- items that are in the Cloud are marked with a down arrow on their icon.

The item will appear in your Home page(s) in its original collection (if any) on the E Ink Kindles, or in the appropriate library on the Fire.

The Kindle keeps the current issues of magazines and newspapers on your Kindle and archives older issues to make space for newer ones. If you want to retain an older issue, you’ll have to tell the Kindle to keep it.

Keeping Periodicals

If you would like to keep an issue on your Kindle, select that issue and click right. Select “Keep This Issue." "Keep" appears next to the item on the Home page.

Long-press the issue and select “Keep This Issue.” “Keep” appears next to the item in Home.

Long-press the issue and select “Keep.” The upper right corner of the icon is turned down.

Once an issue is archived to the Cloud, you can retrieve it any time you are connected to Whispernet.

To retrieve an issue from the archive press Home and scroll to the last page. Select “Periodicals: Back Issues”, then navigate to the issue you want to retrieve and click. An exclamation point symbol to the left of an item means the Kindle is about to delete that issue from the archive. If you want to keep that issue, press the right button on the five-way controller and click “Keep This Issue."

Long-press the item and then select “Keep This Issue” from the pop-up.

To see back issues, long-press the current issue and then select “See Back Issues.

Annotations are saved in Amazon's Cloud for all books that you’ve bought from the Kindle Store as well as personal documents sent to your Kindle via your @kindle.com address. Annotations will be restored when the book or personal documents is restored from the Cloud. Your clippings are saved on the Kindle in the file "My Clippings.txt" for all items on the Kindle, including books, periodicals, and personal documents.

You can lend Kindle books to other Kindle readers, but there are some restrictions. First, book lending has to be enabled by the publisher, and you can only lend a book one time for a period of 14 days.

To see if a book can be lent, look on the book's detail page on Amazon. Scroll down to "Product Details" and look for "Book lending: Enabled." For some unknown reason, the book description available on the Kindle doesn't show if lending is enabled.

To initiate a loan, go to "Your Account," "Manage Your Kindle," and "Your Kindle Library." Click on the "actions" button for the title you wish to lend. If the book can be lent, "Loan this Title" appears as an option. On the "Loan This Book" screen, fill in the recipient's e-mail address. Although not required, it's a good idea to enter her/his name and a personal message so that the Amazon e-mail is not mistaken for spam. Then click "Send Now."

The recipient will receive an e-mail from Amazon with instructions on how to retrieve the book. You will not be able to read the book while it is out on loan. Books that are lent to others are automatically returned to your Kindle after a period of 14 days. If the recipient does not accept the loan within 7 days, the book will be returned to your Kindle.

Although it's great to be able to exchange Kindle books among friends and family, a user-friendly website called
Booklending.com
allows you to greatly expand the universe of readers with whom you can exchange. Booklending.com connects thousands of borrowers with lenders. Those with books to lend can offer their books on the site, to be searched by potential borrowers.

You can give most Kindle books as gifts sent via your Amazon.com account to anyone with an e-mail address. The book is charged to your Amazon account and the recipient gets an e-mail with instructions for receiving the e-book.

To give a book as a gift, go to the book's detail page and click on the "Give as a Gift" button on the right side of the screen. To complete your gift purchase order, enter the recipient's e-mail address and optionally enter the recipient’s name and a personal message. Then click "Place your order."

To track your Kindle book gifts, go to "Your account," "Manage your Kindle," and "Pending Deliveries." You'll see a list of gift orders that have not been redeemed by the recipient, if any. To resend the gift e-mail, click on view details and then on "resend it to the same e-mail address."

Registering your Kindle or Free Kindle Reading App with Amazon lets you buy books and other content in the Amazon Kindle Store and have them automatically sent to your Kindle.

If you bought your Kindle from Amazon, it is already registered (except for the Kindle Fire, which doesn't come preregistered.) If the Kindle was a gift or you bought it used, you'll need to register it. You must have an Amazon account to register your Kindle. Before you can register, you'll need to make sure your Kindle battery is charged and the Kindle is connected to Whispernet, Amazon's free wireless service.

Alternatively, you can register your Kindle on Amazon's Manage Your Kindle pages.

Make sure your Kindle is fully charged before attempting to register it or use it for extended periods. To charge the Kindle, plug the USB cable that came with your Kindle into the wall adapter plug, plug the adapter into a wall outlet, and plug the micro-USB plug on the other end of the cable into the micro-USB jack on the bottom edge of your Kindle. An amber light to the right of the micro-USB jack comes on to show that the Kindle is charging. When it is fully charged, the light turns green. It usually takes about four hours to charge a Kindle that has been fully discharged.

An AC adapter is not included with the Kindle basic or Touch. To charge the Kindle basic or Touch, plug the USB cable into any USB port- on a computer, surge suppressor, or car charger USB port.

To see the battery charge level, disconnect the USB cable and turn the Kindle on by momentarily pressing or sliding the power switch on the bottom edge.