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Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Kindle Fire HDX photos that show you exactly what to doHelp when you run into Kindle Fire HDX problems or limitationsTips and Notes to help you get the most from your Kindle Fire HDXFull-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your Kindle Fire HDX working just the way you want. Learn how to:Quickly set up your Kindle Fire HDX or HD Connect to practically any network, including unlisted WiFi networks Smoothly transfer content between cloud, computer, and tablet Find your favorite books, audiobooks, newspapers, or magazines Read and write reviews at Amazon's global Goodreads community Move your Amazon printed book purchases online with MatchBook Play your music and video, wherever it comes from (even iTunes) Display movies on your TV and use Kindle Fire as a remote Control subscriptions so you pay for only the content you want Do more than ever with the newest Kindle Fire apps Connect via Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and email Edit personal documents and photos on your Kindle Fire HDX Manage your life, contacts, and calendar on your Kindle Fire HDX Make the most of Kindle Fire's built-in cameras Browse the Web with Kindle Fire's newly-upgraded Silk browser Find great apps for kids and control how they use Kindle Fire Get free Amazon personal support whenever you need it
Contents
Introduction 1An Overview of the Various Kindle Fire Models ........2What's New on the Kindle Fire ....................3What You'll Find in This Book .......................4How to Navigate This Book ...........................5Let's Light This Fire .........................................7Chapter 1 Getting Started with the Kindle Fire 9The Hardware..........................10Initial Setup ............................................11Setting Up Your Kindle Fire .........................12Connecting to an Unlisted Wi-Fi Network ............14Connecting to Facebook and Twitter ..............15The Home Screen ..............................15Downloading Items .........................17Removing Downloaded Items from Your Kindle Fire .........18Adding an Item to Favorites ......................18Removing an Item from Favorites ..................19Rearranging Favorites ...............20Navigating the Kindle Fire .........................20Accessing Content Libraries ................22Opening Navigation Panels .............24Notifications and Options ......................25Viewing Notifications ..............................26Using the Options Bar .............................26Switching Applications or Content ........................27Settings ....................................................27Locking the Screen Orientation ........................28Adjusting Screen Brightness ....................................29Enabling Airplane Mode ..............................29Using Quiet Time to Disable Notifications .................30Changing the Screen Timeout .............31Checking Device Information ..................33Using the Keyboard ...........................35Entering Text ..........................................35Positioning the Cursor ...........................36Selecting and Editing Text .........................36Copying/Cutting and Pasting Text ............................37Entering Punctuation and Numbers..................37Adding Accent Marks and Diacriticals ............38Splitting the Keyboard ........................................38Connecting to Other Hardware..........................39Adding Bluetooth Accessories ............................39Searches ...........................41Searching Your Library ...................41Searching the Web ..............................42Searching Amazon Stores .....................42Getting Help .................................................44Using the Mayday Button ...........................44Accessing the Kindle Fire User Guide ....................45Chapter 2 Accessing Amazon's Cloud Services 49Amazon Prime ........................................50Setting Up Amazon Prime ...................51Amazon Cloud Drive ............................................52Accessing Your Cloud Drive ......................53Creating Folders ......................................................54Deleting Folders .............................55Recovering Deleted Items ............................55Adding Files to Your Cloud Drive ...................56Downloading the Cloud Drive Application ..................57Accessing Cloud Drive Files from Your Kindle Fire ................58Saving Files to Your Device ...........59Amazon Cloud Player ...........................60Launching Cloud Player ................................61Importing Your Music .................................62Playing Music on Your Computer ..........................67Creating Playlists ......................................69Downloading Songs to Your Kindle Fire ...............70Amazon Instant Video ................................72Getting Videos from Amazon Instant Video .................73Kindle Reader Applications and Kindle Cloud Reader ..............74Accessing Kindle Reader Applications .............74Accessing Kindle Cloud Reader..........................75Opening and Downloading Books.....................76Reading Books on the Kindle Cloud Reader .........77Transferring Files from Your Computer ............................78Transferring Files from a PC .........................79Transferring Files from a Mac ................79Chapter 3 Using Amazon's Manage Your Kindle Page 83Managing Your Books and Documents ..............83Accessing Manage Your Kindle..............84Viewing Books and Docs ...................................85Sending Books and Docs to Your Kindle ...................86Downloading Books to a Computer ...................87Deleting Books and Docs ................88Changing Your Kindle Email Address ..........................88Adding an Approved Email for Docs ...............89Disabling Doc Archiving .................................90Managing Subscriptions ..........................................91Changing Where a Subscription Is Delivered ...............91Canceling a Subscription ....................................92Reactivating a Canceled Subscription .....................93Changing Subscription Privacy Settings ..........94Updating Kindle Payment Information ............................94Changing Amazon Purchases Credit Cards ..................95Changing Current Subscriptions Credit Cards...................96Managing Your Kindle Devices .......................97Deregistering a Kindle or Kindle App ...........97Renaming Your Kindle Fire ............................98Turning Off Special Offers .........................................99Turning Off Whispersync ......................... 100Chapter 4 Reading on the Kindle Fire 103Finding Content ................................. 103Buying Books ................................................ 104Using the Kindle Lending Library......................... 106Completing Your Book Collection with MatchBook ........ 107Lending Books to Friends and Family ........... 109Subscribing to Periodicals ............ 110Organizing Your Books ................................... 111Browsing Your Library ............................. 112Downloading a Book to Your Device ................... 112Removing a Book from Your Device ................. 113Creating a Collection ................................. 114Editing a Collection ....................................... 115Adding a Book to a Collection .......................... 116Removing a Book from a Collection ......... 117Reading on Your Kindle .......................... 118Reading a Book ................................. 118Navigating a Book ........................... 120Changing Font Styles .................................. 121Looking Up Definitions ................................. 122Working with Notes and Highlights ....................... 123Adding a Note .................................................. 124Viewing an Individual Note ........................... 125Editing a Note........................................ 125Deleting a Note ........................................ 126Adding a Highlight ................................................... 126Viewing All Notes and Highlights ........................ 127Deleting a Highlight .............................. 127Working with Bookmarks .......................... 128Adding a Bookmark ..................................... 128Removing a Bookmark ..................................... 129Moving to a Bookmark................................................... 129Reading Magazines and Newspapers .......................... 129Reading Magazines ........................................ 130Reading Newspapers ...................... 133Listening to Audiobooks ................................. 134Downloading Audiobooks ........................... 134Listening to Audiobooks .................................. 135Immersion Reading ................................................ 137Using Text-to-Speech .................................................................................. 139Searching Content and Accessing Reference Materials ....... 140Using X-Ray for Books ...................................... 140Searching the Current Item .............................. 141Searching Wikipedia or Bing from Books ......................... 143Chapter 5 Listening to Music on the Kindle Fire 145Browsing and Downloading Your Music .............. 145Browsing Music ................................ 146Scrolling Through Your Music ................................ 149Monitoring Downloads from an Album ............... 150Searching Your Music Collection............. 150Playing Music ........................ 151Listening to Music .................. 151Viewing Song Lyrics ............................... 153Accessing Music Controls ............. 154Managing Playlists............................. 155Creating a Playlist ..................................... 155Editing a Playlist ..................................... 156Adding Artists or Albums to a Playlist .............. 157Playing a Playlist................................. 158Downloading a Playlist .............................. 159Deleting a Playlist ............................. 160Chapter 6 Watching Video on Your Kindle Fire 163Navigating the Video Store .......................... 163Browsing the Video Store .......................... 164Viewing Movie Details ........................................ 165Renting or Purchasing a Movie ................... 166Purchasing TV Show Episodes .............................. 168Purchasing Complete TV Show Seasons ................ 169Accessing Movies and TV Shows from Prime Instant Video .. 170Buying a Season TV Pass ................... 171Working with Your Video Library ................ 172Watching a Movie or TV Show ................. 172Using X-Ray for Video ............................... 174Adding a Video to Your Watchlist ........... 175Removing a Downloaded Video .................. 176Using Second Screen ........................................ 177Watching Video with Second Screen ....................... 178Chapter 7 Installing and Using Apps 181The Appstore ................................ 181Browsing Apps ............................ 183Viewing and Purchasing Apps ................... 184Testing Driving an App ............... 186Viewing Subscriptions ........................ 187Your Apps Library ....................................... 188Browsing Your Apps Library .................. 188Installing a Purchased App............................ 189Adding an App to Favorites ................. 190Uninstalling an App ....................... 191Updating an Application .......................... 191Application Settings .......................................... 193Force-Stopping an Application ........................ 193Clearing Application Data ...... 195Games for Your Kindle Fire ....................... 196Accessing Games .................... 196Chapter 8 Using Social Media and Chat 201Sharing with Social Networks .................... 201Setting Up Your Social Networks ......... 202Using the Facebook App ................ 204Using the Twitter App ................ 206Talking Books with the Goodreads Community ............ 209Sharing General Comments About Books ................ 209Sharing Highlights from Books ......... 210Before You Go in Books.............. 210Accessing Goodreads from Your Books Library ...... 211Video Chatting Over Skype ............... 214Setting Up Skype ................................... 214Adding Skype Contacts ............... 217Communicating via Skype ....................... 218Sharing Game Achievements with GameCircle .............. 220Identifying GameCircle Games ................... 220Creating a GameCircle Profile ........... 221Adding Friends on GameCircle...................... 222Accessing Game Achievements ................... 223Accessing Leaderboards .......................... 223Chapter 9 Reading and Sending Email 227Email Accounts ................................ 227Accessing the Add Account Page ..................... 228Adding a Gmail, Microsoft, AOL, or Yahoo! Account ....... 229Adding a POP3, IMAP, or Exchange Account ............. 230Modifying Your Account Settings .......... 232Managing Your Email Inbox ........................ 236Choosing an Inbox .................. 237Choosing a Folder or Label ........................ 237Searching Email ....................... 239Synchronizing Email and Loading More Messages ......... 240Selecting and Managing Multiple Messages ......................... 241Reading Email .................................. 241Reading a Message .......................... 242Viewing Attachments .................... 243Composing a New Email Message ..................... 244Chapter 10 Managing Your Personal Documents and Data 247Managing Personal Documents ................ 247Viewing PDF Documents ................................. 248Viewing Word Documents ............. 250Viewing Spreadsheets ...................... 252Using the Contacts App .......................... 254Viewing Contacts and Marking VIPs ........................ 254Adding a Contact ........................... 255Editing a Contact ........................ 257Changing Contact Sort Order and Name Display ............. 258Joining Contacts ........................... 259Deleting Contacts ................... 260Using the Calendar ................................ 260Viewing the Calendar .................... 260Adding an Event ............................... 263Adding Facebook Events .................. 266Editing or Deleting an Event......................... 267Archiving Old Apps and Data .................. 268Using the 1-Tap Archive ..................... 268Chapter 11 Taking Photos with Your Kindle Fire HDX 271Accessing Personal Photos and Videos .............. 272Importing Your Facebook Photos .................. 272Viewing Photos ........................... 273Sharing Individual Photos with Other Apps and Social Media ........ 275Sharing Photos from the Photos Library Screen ...... 276Sharing Multiple Photos ............. 277Editing Photos .................... 278Entering Editing Mode ............ 278Enhancing a Photo ................. 279Cropping a Photo ............... 279Rotating a Photo ............... 280Fixing Redeye ................. 280Using Filters .................... 281Adding Stickers, Text, or Drawings to a Photo ........... 281Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Warmth.... 283Changing the Focus of an Image ........... 283Adding a Splash of Color to an Image ...... 284Using the Cameras ......... 284Taking Photos ............ 285Taking Panoramic Images ............. 287Taking Videos ............. 288Chapter 12 Browsing the Web with Silk 291Browsing the Web ............ 291Browsing to a Website ............. 292Navigating a Page........ 293Sharing Pages with Social Networks and Other Apps... 294Sharing Pages with Email ................... 295Copying a Link to the Current Page ................ 295Copying and Opening Hyperlinks ............... 296Searching the Web ............ 296Working with Tabs ............... 297Navigating Tabs .............. 297Using Bookmarks and History .................... 298Bookmarking the Current Page .............. 298Bookmarking a Hyperlink ............ 298Viewing and Following Bookmarks ............... 299Editing a Bookmark ............... 300Viewing History....................... 300Chapter 13 Giving Your Kids a Kindle Fire 303Setting Up Kindle FreeTime .............. 303Accessing Kindle FreeTime .............. 304Setting Up Child Profiles......................... 306Manage Content on FreeTime ............... 308Setting Daily Time Limits ............................. 309Changing the Parental Controls Password ................. 311Teaching Your Kids How to Use Kindle FreeTime ................ 312Using the FreeTime Interface ................ 313Navigation for Nonreaders ............... 315Exiting FreeTime .................. 315Parental Controls for Older Children ............. 316Setting a Parental Controls Password .................... 317Managing Parental Controls Settings ............... 318TOC, 9780789752932, 1/13/2014
