Chapter 2: getting to know kindle content, 1 the home screen – Amazon Technologies Kindle D00511 User Manual

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KINDLE USER’S GUIDE 4

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EDITION

CHAPTER 2:
Getting to Know Kindle Content

The Kindle Home screen gives you an overall picture of what you currently have

on your Kindle. It shows you what has arrived recently, what you are reading, and

where you are in your reading. It also allows you to remove content from your Kindle

and to move content from Amazon.com to your Kindle. Read below for more details.

2.1 The Home Screen

Your Home screen displays a list of all of your Kindle reading materials — books,

newspapers, magazines, blogs, PDF files, personal documents, as well as audiobooks.

It serves as a personal bookshelf for all of your reading material, as well as a starting

point to access other Kindle features.

To display the Home screen, press the Home button on the right edge of your Kindle.

By default, the Home screen lists all of the items that you have on your Kindle
beginning with the most recently viewed (or acquired) items. Each type of content has

a slightly different description and label. You can read more about the types of content
available in Chapter 3.

KINDLE BOOKS

Books are shown by title and author. Below the book title are a series of dots which

give you an approximation of how long the book is. Bold dots within the series

indicate how far along you are in the book based on the last page you viewed.

PERIODICALS

Periodicals include newspapers and magazines that can be purchased as a single
issue or as a subscription delivered on a regular basis. Your Home screen lists the

most recent issue of each periodical you have on your Kindle. Older issues appear

inside a grouping called Periodicals: Back Issues. Selecting the grouping takes you to

a screen that displays the back issues of all the periodicals you have on your Kindle.

Note that Kindle automatically deletes issues that are more than seven issues old to
free up space for new content. An exclamation point

next to an issue indicates

that it will be deleted within 24 hours.

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