Chapter 6 Getting More From Your Kindle; Carrying And Reading Personal Documents; Reading Kindle Content On Other Devices; Sharing - Amazon kindle 2nd edition User Manual

Kindle User's Guide, 2nd Edition

Chapter 6 Getting More From Your Kindle

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Chapter 6
Getting More From Your Kindle

Carrying and reading personal documents

Your Kindle makes it easy to take your personal documents with you, eliminating the need to
print them. You and your approved contacts can e-mail documents to your Kindle. To locate your
Send-to-Kindle e-mail address, tap the Quick Actions icon on the toolbar, and then tap All Settings.
On the Settings page, tap My Account and find the e-mail address under Send-to Kindle E-mail.
Your e-mailed personal documents will be backed up to your library and ready to download at any
time when Personal Document Archiving is enabled. To learn more about this feature and enable
Personal Document Archiving, go to the Manage Your Content and Devices page (accessible from
www.amazon.com/devicesupport).
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 add notes, highlights and
bookmarks, which are synchronised across devices, together with the last page you read, via our
Whispersync technology. Synchronisation of notes, highlights, bookmarks and last page read is
available only for personal documents archived in Kindle format. You can also read documents in
PDF and TXT format natively.

Reading Kindle content on other devices

You can synchronise your Kindle books with other supported devices you own and Kindle reading
applications. Amazon's Whispersync technology synchronises your last page read, notes, highlights
and bookmarks. For example, you can read a few pages using the Kindle application on your iPhone,
iPad or Android device and then pick up right where you left off when you return to your Kindle. For
a complete list of supported devices and Device Synchronisation settings, go to www.amazon.com/
devicesupport.

Sharing

The sharing feature lets you share books, Kindle highlights and comments with friends via social
networks. Using Goodreads on Kindle, you can rate and shelve books and connect with prominent
writers. To link your Kindle to your social network accounts and enable sharing, tap the Quick Actions
icon on the toolbar, and then tap All Settings. On the Settings page, tap My Account and then Social
Networks.
To access the sharing feature from within a book, tap the Share icon on the Reading toolbar. To
share an excerpt from a book, simply press, hold and drag your finger across the screen to select
the desired text, and then tap Share. Select the sharing option you want to use from the list.

Using your Kindle with your computer

Your Kindle uses Amazon Whispernet to deliver books, periodicals, personal documents, Kindle
Singles and blogs to your Kindle without the need for a computer.
When you first connect the Kindle to a computer's USB port, it will appear as an external storage
drive or volume on the computer's desktop. You'll see a directory or folder called "Documents".
You can add Kindle-compatible files to this directory, and you can copy, move or delete the files
that are already there. See the Kindle Support website (www.amazon.com/devicesupport) for more
information on supported file types.
Your Kindle is not usable as a reading device while in USB drive mode. To read a book whilst charging
the battery, you must eject the Kindle from your computer's desktop.