Getting To Know Kindle Content; The Home Screen; Kindle Books; Periodicals - Amazon KINDLE DX User Manual

CHAPTER 2

Getting to Know Kindle Content

The Kindle Home screen gives you an overall picture of what you currently have on
your Kindle. It shows you what has arrived recently, what you are reading, and where
you are in your reading. It also allows you to remove content from your Kindle and to
move content from Amazon to your Kindle. Read below for more details.

2.1 The Home Screen

Your Home screen displays a list of all of your Kindle reading materials — books,
newspapers, magazines, blogs, PDF files, personal documents, as well as audiobooks.
It serves as a personal bookshelf for all of your reading material, as well as a starting
point to access other Kindle features.
To display the Home screen, press the Home button on your Kindle. By default, the
Home screen lists all of the items that you have on your Kindle beginning with the most
recently viewed (or acquired) items. Each type of content has a slightly different
description and label. You can read more about the types of content available in
Chapter 3.

Kindle Books

Books are shown by title and author. Below the book title are a series of dots which give
you an approximation of how long the book is. Bold dots within the series indicate how
far along you are in the book based on the last page you viewed.

Periodicals

Periodicals include newspapers and magazines that can be purchased as a single issue
or as a subscription delivered on a regular basis. Your Home screen lists the most
recent issue of each periodical you have on your Kindle. Older issues appear inside a
grouping called Periodicals: Back Issues. Selecting the grouping takes you to a screen
that displays the back issues of all the periodicals you have on your Kindle. Note that
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