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Chapter 3 Kindle Fire Content
Docs
You can view your personal documents by tapping Docs on the Home screen. You and your approved contacts can send documents to your Kindle Fire by using your
To access personal documents that you transfer to your Kindle Fire, tap Docs on the Home screen. You can send Microsoft Word (DOC, DOCX), PDF, HTML, TXT, RTF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PRC, and MOBI files to your Kindle and read them in Kindle format. You can also read documents in PDF format natively. See Transferring content to your Kindle Fire for instructions on loading documents to your Kindle directly from your computer. Please note that personal content transferred to your Kindle Fire is only stored on your device and not archived in the cloud. For more information, see the Kindle Personal Documents website at www.amazon.com/kindlepersonaldocuments.
Apps
You can view your applications by tapping Apps on the Home screen. Apps can be purchased directly from your Kindle Fire by tapping “Store >” in the top right corner of the Apps library screen to go to the Amazon Appstore. Here, you can get a great paid app for free every day, browse the top paid and free apps, search for apps, or explore content categories such as New, Games, Entertainment, and Lifestyle. Once you’ve chosen an app, tap the orange price button and confirm your purchase by pressing the green Get/Buy App button. The app will be downloaded, installed, and placed in your Apps library.
To launch an application, tap the app’s icon in the Apps library, Carousel, or Favorites, or tap the Open button on a product page in the Store. Tap the Menu icon on the Options bar to display the
To add an app to Favorites, press and hold the app’s icon in the Apps library and select Add to Favorites. To see a list of apps currently installed on your device, tap Device at the top of the Apps library.
If you want to uninstall an app, press and hold its icon, select Remove from Device, and follow the directions on the screen. If you want to install it again at a later time, you can find it in your Apps library under Cloud.
Setting up E-mail
Your Kindle Fire contains an
With the provided Quickoffice® document viewer, you can easily view Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations that are sent to you as attachments. Tap the Open button next to the attachment you want to view. If the attached file does not automatically open, then select Quickoffice.
Note that documents sent to your personal
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