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Use the Home Screen

Your Home screen displays a list of all of your Kindle reading materials.
To display the Home screen: Press the Home button.
The Home screen shows:
Device name: The name of your Kindle. You can edit this name on the Settings screen.
Show options: Choose which types of content you want displayed in Home.
Sort options: Choose the order you want content displayed in Home.
Title: the title of the item.
Author or Date: For books, the author of the item is listed. For periodicals and blogs, the date is
listed.
Unread title: The new label indicates the item has never been opened and is less than 24 hours
old.
Archived Items: Downloadable items stored at Amazon.com not currently on your device.
Sample title: The sample label indicates the book is a sample.
Progress indicator: The series of dots below the item shows how long the book is. Bold dots
show how much of the book you have read.
Audiobook title: the audio label indicates the book is an audiobook.
Pages in Home: Indicates the total number of pages in Home. Use the Next Page or Previous
Page button to navigate the pages.
Periodicals: Access older issues of newspapers and magazines.
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