Search Your World; Collections; Clip Your Favorite Passages; Bookmark Your Reading - Amazon Kindle User Manual

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Just as you would thumb through a physical newspaper or magazine to locate an article of interest, navigation shortcuts let you
quickly zero in on an article of interest. By using the right or left button on the 5-way controller, you can advance to the next or
previous article. Press the center of the 5-way controller to display the periodical's section list.

Search Your World

While you are in Home, the Kindle Store, or reading content, you can use your Kindle's search feature. From the keyboard,
begin typing what you'd like to search for and then using the 5-way controller, select the range of your search. If you begin your
search while in Home or with open content, you have the option to search for that item in all of your books, newspapers, blogs,
personal documents, and annotations. You also have the option to focus your search to the built-in dictionary, the Kindle Store,
Wikipedia, Google, and the Web.

Collections

To personalize and organize items, you can add your books, personal documents, and Audible audiobooks to collections on
your Home screen. Create a new collection from the Home screen by pressing the Menu button and selecting "Create New
Collection", and then type a name for the collection. You can add as many items as you wish to each collection, and you can
even add an item to more than one collection for more flexible organization.

Clip Your Favorite Passages

While reading a book, newspaper, or personal document, have you ever wanted to clip and save a few words to refer to later?
With Kindle, simply select "Add a Note or Highlight" from the menu and use the 5-way to highlight the content you want to
clip and then press the 5-way to save your selection. The clipping is added to a file in Home called "My Clippings." You can
review your clippings later, search for words or terms you clipped, and transfer the "My Clippings" file to your computer. This
is a great way to capture your favorite quotations to share with others.

Bookmark Your Reading

Kindle automatically saves your place in whatever book you are reading, but you can also add a bookmark to any page in a
book or PDF document by pressing the Menu button and selecting "Add a Bookmark." You can see that the upper right corner
of the page is dog-eared. Kindle stores all your bookmarks for the current content in your annotations. You can view them at
any time by pressing the Menu button from the book you're reading and selecting "View Notes & Marks."

Add Your Own Notes

Do you like to take notes and make comments while reading? You can add notes to any of the content on Kindle. Amazon
automatically stores all of your book annotations in the "My Clippings" file and backs them up at Amazon so they will not be
lost.
As an example, this sentence is highlighted and has a note attached as indicated by the superscripted number one to the right of
this text. Using the 5-way controller, move the cursor over the notation number to see the note. To add your own note, move the
cursor to the word where you want to add your thoughts, and begin typing your note. Then use the 5-way again to highlight the
"save note" button onscreen and press the 5-way to select. You can later view, edit, or remove a note, or see all of your
annotations by pressing the Menu button and selecting "View Notes & Marks."

Stay in Sync

Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your reading location across your Kindle(s) and other supported devices. For
example, you can read a few pages on your iPhone or Blackberry device and pick up right where you left off when you return to
your Kindle. For a complete list of supported devices, visit the Kindle Store on Amazon's website:
http://www.amazon.com/kindleapps (U.S. and other countries)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/kindleapps (U.K. customers)
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