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Let Kindle Read to You
You can also choose to turn on the experimental application, Text-to-Speech, which
will read aloud your books (where allowed by the rights holder), newspapers, blogs,
and personal documents. You can either listen through your Kindle’s external speakers
or plug in earphones into the headphone jack. While Text-to-Speech is playing, the
screen will turn the pages automatically so you can follow along while the audio
is playing. You have the choice of hearing your content spoken with a male or female
voice and can also further optimize the listening experience by slowing down or
increasing the rate of speech.
Look It Up
Your Kindle includes The New Oxford American Dictionary. You can easily look up
a particular word without leaving the content. Simply use the 5-way controller to
navigate the cursor in front of the word you want defined. A definition of the word
appears at the bottom of the screen. To view the full definition, press the Return key
on the keyboard. To return to the text you were reading, press the Back button.
Take It All with You
Although Kindle is about the size of a paperback book, it can store over a thousand
digital books, newspapers, blogs, and magazines, which are referred to collectively
as “content” throughout this guide. A copy of all your books and recent issues
of newspapers and magazines purchased from the Kindle Store are kept on
Amazon.com.
To open content on your Kindle, press the Home button. This displays a list of the
content on your Kindle. Move the 5-way controller up or down to underline the item
you want to open and then press the 5-way to open the item. To delete content on
your Kindle, move the 5-way controller up or down to underline the item you want
to delete. Move the 5-way to the left and then press the 5-way to complete the removal
of the item.
To move previously deleted content from Amazon.com back to your Kindle,
Whispernet must be on. From Home, select “Archived Items.” This shows all of the
content stored at Amazon.com. Underline the item you want to move back to your
Kindle and move the 5-way to the right to start the transfer. In under a minute, the
item re-downloads into your Kindle and appears in the list of content in Home.