User's Guide

Kindle User’s Guide
Chapter 4
Getting More From Your Kindle Paperwhite
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Chapter 4
Getting More From Your Kindle
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Carrying and reading 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 email documents to your Kindle. To
locate your Send-to-Kindle Email address, tap the Menu button and select Settings. On
the Settings page, select Device Options, Personalize Your Kindle, then Send-to-Kindle
Email. Your emailed personal documents will be backed up in your Kindle Library and
ready to download at any time when Personal Document Archiving is enabled. To learn
more about this feature and enable Personal Document Archiving, go to the Manage Your
Content and Devices page (accessible from www.amazon.com/devicesupport).
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 synchronized across devices along with the
last page you read via our Whispersync technology. Synchronization 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 content on other devices
You can synchronize your Kindle books with other supported devices you own and Kindle
reading applications. Amazon's Whispersync technology keeps track of the last reading
location in each book. For example, you can read a few pages using the Kindle application
on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device and then pick up right where you left off when you
return to your Kindle. For a complete list of supported devices and Device Synchronization
settings, go to www.amazon.com/devicesupport.
Sharing comments via social networks
The share feature enables you to share books, Kindle highlights, and comments with
friends via social networks, including Goodreads on Kindle. To link your Kindle to your
social network accounts and enable sharing, tap the Menu button and select Settings. On
the Settings page, select Reading Options, then Social Networks.
Once you have set up the sharing feature, from within a book you can select Share from
the secondary toolbar and enter a message and share it with your social network. To
access the sharing feature when you select text, press and hold on text, then drag your
finger across the screen to select it. If you select a sentence or multiple words, a dialog
box will appear with an option to Share. If you select a single word, a definition of the word