Amazon KNDKYBRD3G manual Content Formatting on Kindle, Audible Content, Background Music

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Chapter 3 Reading on Kindle

For details on fees, see the “Your individual charges” section of the Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon.

Audible Content

The Kindle Store offers thousands of Audible audio editions, including New York Times Best Sellers. In addition to audiobooks, the Kindle Store offers audio editions for radio shows, stand-up comedy, and speeches from icons who shape our culture, politics, and business world. Listen to Audible content through Kindle’s speakers or plug in your headphones for private listening. Audiobooks can be delivered wirelessly via Wi-Fi to your Kindle with no computer required. See Chapter 5 for more information about purchasing audiobooks.

If Wi-Fi is not available at your current location, you can still purchase Audible content using 3G (on Kindle 3G+Wi-Fi models), and your Audible purchase will automatically download to your Kindle the next time your Kindle connects using Wi-Fi. Alternatively, you can download your Audible purchases to your PC or Mac over your existing Internet connection and then transfer them to Kindle using USB. For more information on transferring Audible content from your computer to your Kindle, see Chapter 8.

Background Music

If you like to listen to music while you use your Kindle, use your computer to transfer MP3 files to the “music” folder on your Kindle. When you select “play music” from the Experimental page, each of the songs will play in the order they were added to your Kindle.

3.2 Content Formatting on Kindle

When you read a book on Kindle, you will find that the formatting generally follows the printed version of the book. If the book has a table of contents, it will appear in Kindle. If the book has chapters, a preface, an illustrated cover, and so forth, these will be displayed.

When you first open a book, a header appears at the top of the page showing the content title and/or issue date. The header also shows the connection type, signal strength, and battery status indicators. In books, the bottom of the screen shows you the overall percentage of the book you have read.

Once you open a book, when you go to the next or previous page, the header automatically disappears to allow the page to fill the screen. To temporarily display the header (for example, if you want to check battery status), press Menu. Pressing Menu again hides the header.