Amazon KNDKYBRD3G manual Chapter Reading on Kindle, Types of Content, Books, Newspapers, Magazines

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Chapter 3 Reading on Kindle

Chapter 3

Reading on Kindle

Kindle retains the best qualities of printed books, but adds many features that are available only through digital technologies such as word lookup, changeable text size, clippings, annotations, and sharing. This chapter explains more about Kindle’s reading features.

3.1 Types of Content

There are many types of reading material available for your Kindle, such as books, audiobooks, newspapers, magazines, and blogs. If you want to begin purchasing and downloading reading material, you can learn more in Chapter 5. You can even have Amazon convert and deliver personal documents to your Kindle. The different types of supported content are described below.

Books

Thousands of books in different categories—both popular and hard-to-find—are available in the Kindle Store. Once you buy a book, it usually arrives wirelessly in under a minute. Because you can’t always judge a book by its cover, you can download and read a sample of most Kindle books for free. If you like it, simply buy it from within the sample and continue reading. You can learn more about this feature in Chapter 5.

Newspapers

The Kindle Store offers a selection of U.S. and international newspapers. Subscriptions are delivered wirelessly to your Kindle so that the latest edition arrives as soon as it is available, and every newspaper subscription starts with a free trial.

Magazines

The Kindle Store offers an expanding selection of magazines to meet every interest. As with newspapers, all magazine subscriptions are delivered wirelessly and start with a free trial.

Blogs

The Kindle Store offers thousands of Kindle blogs, including up-to-the-minute news feeds and topical blogs. Blog categories include business, technology, sports, politics, culture, entertainment, humor, and science. Kindle blogs are sent to you wirelessly throughout the day, allowing you to keep current. Unlike traditional feeds, which often only provide headlines, Kindle downloads the complete feed onto the device so you can read them even when you are not wirelessly connected.

Personal Documents

In addition to purchased content, you can read your personal documents on Kindle.

Kindle can display a PDF document without losing the formatting of the original file. You can either drag PDF files over USB to your device or e-mail them to your dedicated Kindle e-mail address (found on the Settings page on Kindle or the Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon). You can rotate your device sideways for widescreen viewing. For more information on the unique aspects of reading PDF files on Kindle, see “Reading PDF Files.”

If you have PDF files, or files formatted as text, Microsoft Word, HTML, or image files like GIF or JPEG, you can e-mail the files as attachments to your Kindle e-mail address. Amazon will convert the files if necessary and send them back to your computer for free or via Whispernet to your Kindle (fees may apply). For more information on transferring, converting, and e-mailing your personal documents, see Chapter 8.