Read Online The Complete 2012 User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle: Covers All Current Kindles Including the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, and Kindle by Bruce Grubbs, Stephen Windwalker - Free Book Online
Authors: Bruce Grubbs, Stephen Windwalker
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an increasing number of Kindle books, as we'll see below, a feature that’s especially valuable to students and book group members, who may want or need to synchronize their Kindles with print editions.
Basic, Keyboard, DX:
To see your current location, press the Menu button. Your current location and the last location in the book are shown just above the progress bar. Press the Menu or Back buttons to return to the reading screen.
Touch:
In what appears to be an attempt to make the book reading screen even more like a book, the Touch does not have a progress bar. Instead, it just shows the current location at the lower left and the percentage read on the lower right corner of the screen. Tap the top edge of the screen to bring up the menu and status bars. The bottom status bar now shows your current location and the end location, page numbers when available, and the percentage read.
Fire:
Tap the middle of the screen to see the progress bar.
Press Menu while reading on the Kindle basic, Keyboard, and DX to see the current location at the bottom of the screen. On the Fire, tap the middle of the screen
Sync to Furthest Page Read
Your Kindle saves your place in every book and periodical that you're reading, and returns to that place when you open it again. This means you'll never lose your place in anything you've been reading on the Kindle.
If you have more than one Kindle, or one or more of the Free Kindle Reading Apps , you can read the same book on multiple devices. So that you can start reading from the furthest place read on any Kindle or Kindle App, you can sync to the furthest place read by pressing the Menu button while reading that document. (On the Fire, tap the middle of the screen, then tap Menu on the bottom of the screen. Select “Sync to Furthest Page Read” from the pop-up.
You can reset the Furthest Page Read on Amazon.com by going to Your Account, Manage Your Kindle, and Your Kindle Library. Click on the Actions button at the right of any title and select “Clear furthest page read…”
Go To
While reading, press Menu (on the Fire, tap the center of the screen and then tap Menu) and then select “Go to...” to jump to any of the following places in your book:
• Table of Contents
• Cover
• Beginning
• End
• Page
• Location
Some books may not have all these “go-to” options: fiction, for example, doesn't always include a table of contents.
The "Go to..." pop-up on the E Ink Kindles
Table of Contents
Most Kindle e-books have hyperlinked tables of contents. Hyperlinks are always underlined and clicking on them takes you to that place in the book.
To return to the table of contents after clicking on a hyperlink, press the Back button.
Cover
Takes you to the cover image or graphic, which is usually at the very front of the book.
Beginning
Takes you to the beginning of the text, which is usually the introduction for nonfiction, and the start of the first chapter for fiction
End
Takes you to the last page of the book
Page
If a print version of the book is available through Amazon, Amazon often synchronizes the page numbers with the Kindle version. This allows you to compare locations in the Kindle edition with the print edition easily. You can check the page number by pressing the Menu button while reading. (The Fire does not currently support page numbers.) If a page number is available, it will be displayed above the progress bar at the bottom of the screen.
While you're shopping in the Amazon Kindle Store, either on the Kindle or on your computer, you can check the book detail page to see if page numbers are provided. If they are, the source’s ISBN number for the printed book will be cited.
Location
This takes you to a
Basic, Keyboard, DX:
To see your current location, press the Menu button. Your current location and the last location in the book are shown just above the progress bar. Press the Menu or Back buttons to return to the reading screen.
Touch:
In what appears to be an attempt to make the book reading screen even more like a book, the Touch does not have a progress bar. Instead, it just shows the current location at the lower left and the percentage read on the lower right corner of the screen. Tap the top edge of the screen to bring up the menu and status bars. The bottom status bar now shows your current location and the end location, page numbers when available, and the percentage read.
Fire:
Tap the middle of the screen to see the progress bar.
Press Menu while reading on the Kindle basic, Keyboard, and DX to see the current location at the bottom of the screen. On the Fire, tap the middle of the screen
Sync to Furthest Page Read
Your Kindle saves your place in every book and periodical that you're reading, and returns to that place when you open it again. This means you'll never lose your place in anything you've been reading on the Kindle.
If you have more than one Kindle, or one or more of the Free Kindle Reading Apps , you can read the same book on multiple devices. So that you can start reading from the furthest place read on any Kindle or Kindle App, you can sync to the furthest place read by pressing the Menu button while reading that document. (On the Fire, tap the middle of the screen, then tap Menu on the bottom of the screen. Select “Sync to Furthest Page Read” from the pop-up.
You can reset the Furthest Page Read on Amazon.com by going to Your Account, Manage Your Kindle, and Your Kindle Library. Click on the Actions button at the right of any title and select “Clear furthest page read…”
Go To
While reading, press Menu (on the Fire, tap the center of the screen and then tap Menu) and then select “Go to...” to jump to any of the following places in your book:
• Table of Contents
• Cover
• Beginning
• End
• Page
• Location
Some books may not have all these “go-to” options: fiction, for example, doesn't always include a table of contents.
The "Go to..." pop-up on the E Ink Kindles
Table of Contents
Most Kindle e-books have hyperlinked tables of contents. Hyperlinks are always underlined and clicking on them takes you to that place in the book.
To return to the table of contents after clicking on a hyperlink, press the Back button.
Cover
Takes you to the cover image or graphic, which is usually at the very front of the book.
Beginning
Takes you to the beginning of the text, which is usually the introduction for nonfiction, and the start of the first chapter for fiction
End
Takes you to the last page of the book
Page
If a print version of the book is available through Amazon, Amazon often synchronizes the page numbers with the Kindle version. This allows you to compare locations in the Kindle edition with the print edition easily. You can check the page number by pressing the Menu button while reading. (The Fire does not currently support page numbers.) If a page number is available, it will be displayed above the progress bar at the bottom of the screen.
While you're shopping in the Amazon Kindle Store, either on the Kindle or on your computer, you can check the book detail page to see if page numbers are provided. If they are, the source’s ISBN number for the printed book will be cited.
Location
This takes you to a
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