The Settings Contextual Menu; Carrying And Reading Your Personal Documents; Reading Kindle Documents On Other Devices - Amazon Kindle User Manual

Kindle User's Guide 2nd
15
edition
CHAPTER 4
Getting More From Your
Kindle
Popular Highlights: Allows you to enable or disable the display of passages highlighted
by others.
Public Notes: Allows you to toggle the display of notes and highlights made by people
you follow on kindle.amazon.com.
Annotations Backup: Allows you to toggle the automatic backup on Amazon's servers of
your annotations, last page read and collections. Disable this feature if you do not want
your annotations backed up or shared in Popular Highlights.
Page Refresh: Use to set your Kindle to refresh the E Ink display every time you turn the
page.
Personal Info: Allows you to enter contact information such as an address or phone
number, in case you lose your Kindle.

The Settings contextual menu

When you are on the Settings page, the menu offers some important functions that are not
available from the Home screen or book menus.
Update Your Kindle: Installs the latest software for your Kindle. If there are currently no
software updates available on your Kindle, this option is greyed out.
Restart: Restarts your Kindle. You will not lose the books, clippings or other files stored
on the device. Should your Kindle freeze up, you can do a hard reset by pressing the
power button for 20 seconds.
Reset to Factory Defaults: Resets your Kindle to its original factory settings and restarts
it. You should select this action only if instructed to do so by Kindle Customer Service.
Once your Kindle restarts, you will need to download your items from Archived Items. If
you want to continue to password-protect your Kindle, you must set up a password again.
Legal: Provides trademark, copyright and other notices about the software installed on
your Kindle.

Carrying and reading your 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. Your
personal documents will be backed up in your Kindle library and ready to download at any
time.
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 documents on other devices