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  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

  The Hardware

  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