Welcome · 16KINDLE DX USER’S GUIDE 2nd EDITION
Convert Your Own Documents
In addition to all of the great reading material you can get from the Kindle Store,
Amazon can also convert your own documents so you can read them on Kindle.
You can e-mail Microsoft Word, TXT, RTF, HTML or image files like JPEGs and GIFs
to your dedicated Kindle e-mail address (found on the Settings page on Kindle or the
Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon.com). We will convert the document into Kindle
format and wirelessly provide it directly to your Kindle via Whispernet for a fee or
back to your computer for free. If you e-mail a PDF to your Kindle DX, it will be sent
to your device with no conversion.
Learning More
This ends your brief introduction to just some of the capabilities on Kindle.
The chapters that follow give a more complete overview of these and other features.
Remember, you can always search on a particular feature or learn more about
how to do a particular task by opening this guide and typing on the keyboard to
activate Search.
The Table of Contents for the Kindle DX User’s Guide shows you all of the topics
covered in this guide. You can get to the table of contents by pressing the Menu
button from any page. Move the 5-way down until you underline “Table of Contents”
and press the 5-way to go to it.
You can also navigate by clicking an underlined word or words like the “Table of
Contents” above. Underlined words indicate a link to somewhere else in the material
you are reading, like a footnote, a chapter, or a web site. In the example above, when
you navigate the 5-way controller over one of the underlined words, a hand icon
will appear. Pressing the 5-way will take you to the beginning of the table of contents.
Press the Back button to go back to where you were reading.
If you bought your Kindle with your Amazon account, it is already registered with
your account information and you are ready to go. When you go to the Home screen,
check the top left corner of the screen to see if your Amazon name (the same one
you see when you are shopping on Amazon.com) is shown. If it says “My Kindle”
instead of your Amazon account name, you need to register your Kindle. To register,
first press Home to display the Home screen and then press the Menu button. Select
“Settings” and then select “register” on the page that appears to enter your Amazon
user name and password. If your Amazon user name or password contains characters