My Kindle Fire
Jim Cheshire
800 East 96th Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 USA
My Kindle Fire
Copyright © 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-4922-2
ISBN-10: 0-7897-4922-X
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First Printing: January 2012
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction
Chapter 1 Getting Started with the Kindle Fire
Chapter 2 Amazon’s Cloud Services
Chapter 3 Reading on the Kindle Fire
Chapter 4 Using Amazon’s Manage Your Kindle Page
Chapter 5 Managing Content with Calibre
Chapter 6 Accessing and Listening to Music
Chapter 7 Watching Video
Chapter 8 Installing and Using Apps
Chapter 9 Reading and Sending Email
Chapter 10 Browsing the Web with Silk
Index
Table of Contents
Introduction
A Kindle Fire Overview
Why You’ll Love My Kindle Fire
What You’ll Find in the Book
Let’s Light This Fire
1 Getting Started with the Kindle Fire
Changing the Screen Timeout
Initial Setup
Connecting to a Listed Wi-Fi Network
Connecting to an Unlisted Wi-Fi Network
Setting Your Time Zone
Registering with Amazon
Basic Usage of the Kindle Fire
The Home Screen
Downloading Items
Removing Downloaded Items from Your Device
Adding an Item to Favorites
Removing an Item from Favorites
Rearranging Favorites
Notifications and Options
Notifications
Options
Settings
Locking the Screen Orientation
Adjusting the Volume
Adjusting Screen Brightness
Checking Device Information
Turning Off Wi-Fi
Searches
Searching Your Library
Searching the Web
The Kindle Fire Keyboard
Entering Text
Positioning the Cursor and Selecting Text
Selecting and Editing Text
Copy/Cut and Paste
Entering Punctuation and Numbers
2 Amazon’s Cloud Services
Amazon Cloud Drive
Accessing Your Cloud Drive
Creating Folders
Deleting a Folder
Recovering Deleted Items
Adding Files to Your Cloud Drive
Downloading Files from Your Cloud Drive
Amazon Cloud Player
Launching Cloud Player
Playing Music
Creating Playlists
Downloading Songs to a Computer
Changing How Amazon Handles Purchased Music
Amazon Instant Video
Getting Videos from Amazon Instant Video
Kindle Cloud Reader
Accessing Kindle Cloud Reader
Opening and Downloading Books
Reading Books
3 Reading on the Kindle Fire
Finding Content
Subscribing to Periodicals
Sampling and Buying Books
Borrowing Books from Amazon
Lending Books to Friends and Family
Sideloading Books
Reading Books
Browsing Your Library
Downloading a Book to Your Device
Removing a Book from Your Device
Reading a Book
Looking Up Definitions
Changing Font Styles
Changing the Typeface
Using Notes
Adding a Note
Viewing an Individual Note
Viewing All Notes
Editing a Note
Deleting a Note
Working with Highlights
Adding a Highlight
Deleting a Highlight
Working with Bookmarks
Adding a Bookmark
Removing a Bookmark
Moving to a Bookmark
Reading Magazines and Newspapers
Reading a Page View-Enabled Magazine
Reading in Text View and Reading Newspapers
Managing Personal Documents
Emailing a Personal Document to Kindle Fire
Sideloading Personal Documents
Reading Personal Documents
Deleting Personal Documents
Searching Content
Searching the Current Item
Searching Wikipedia or Google from Books
Searching Wikipedia or Google from Periodicals and Personal Document
4 Using Amazon’s Manage Your Kindle Page
Working with Books and Docs
Accessing Manage Your Kindle
Viewing Books and Docs
Sending Books and Docs to Your Kindle
Downloading Books to a Computer
Deleting Books and Docs
Changing Your Kindle Email Address for Docs
Limiting Doc Conversion Charges
Addi
ng an Approved Email for Docs
Disabling Doc Archiving
Managing Subscriptions
Changing Where a Subscription Is Delivered
Canceling a Subscription
Reactivating a Canceled Subscription
Changing Subscription Privacy Settings
Updating Kindle Payment Information
Changing Amazon Purchases Credit Card
Changing Current Subscriptions Credit Card
Managing Your Kindle Devices
Deregistering a Kindle
Renaming Your Kindle
Deregistering a Kindle App
Turning Whispersync Off
5 Managing Content with Calibre
Getting Started with Calibre
Welcome Wizard
Adding Content to Calibre
Importing Books
Searching for New eBooks
Editing Book Information
Downloading Metadata
Manually Editing Metadata
Transferring eBooks to the Kindle Fire
Converting to EPUB Format
Deleting Non-EPUB Formats
Transferring the eBook to Your Kindle Fire
Emailing eBooks to Your Kindle Fire
6 Accessing and Listening to Music
Browsing and Downloading Your Music
Browsing Artists
Scrolling Quickly in Music
Browsing Albums
Monitoring Downloads
Canceling Downloads
Searching for Music
Searching Your Music Collection
Playing Music
Listening to Music
Playback Settings
Using the Now Playing Queue
Viewing from Quick Settings
Viewing from Library or Store
Viewing from Music Menu
Viewing All Tracks in Now Playing
Adding Songs to Now Playing
Removing Songs from the Now Playing Queue
Clearing the Now Playing Queue
Managing Playlists
Creating a Playlist
Editing a Playlist
Adding Artists or Albums to a Playlist
Playing a Playlist
Downloading a Playlist
Renaming a Playlist
Deleting a Cloud Playlist
Removing a Device Playlist
Buying New Music
Navigating the Music Store
Sampling and Buying Songs
Sampling and Buying Albums
Changing Music Delivery Preference
Sideloading Music
Sideloading to Your Kindle Fire
7 Watching Video
Navigating the Video Store
Browsing the Video Store
Viewing Movie Details
Viewing TV Show Details
Renting or Purchasing a Movie
Buying TV Shows
Disabling the HD Purchase Warning
Working with Your Video Library
Watching a Movie or TV Show
Downloading Videos
Removing a Downloaded Video
Sideloading Videos
Converting Videos for Kindle Fire
Copying Video to Your Kindle Fire
Watching Sideloaded Videos
Deleting Sideloaded Video
8 Installing and Using Apps
Your App Library
Browsing Your App Library
Installing a Purchased App
Installing Multiple Apps at Once
Adding an App to Favorites
Uninstalling an App
Updating an Application
The Appstore
Browsing Apps
Viewing and Purchasing Apps
Viewing Saved or Recently Viewed Apps
Viewing Subscriptions
Changing a Subscription Period
Turning Off Auto-Renewal
Changing Subscription Privacy Preferences
Application Settings
Force Stopping an Application
Clearing Application Data
Indispensable Apps