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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 2 Contents Contents Chapter 1 About Your Kindle Fire .................................................................. 4 Status Bar ............................................................................................. 4 Search .................................................................................................. 5 Content ................................................................................................ 5 Carousel ....................
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 3 Contents Appendix A Product Information ................................................................. 18 Safety and Compliance Information ............................................................. 18 Maintaining Your Kindle Fire ...................................................................... 18 Servicing Your Device ............................................................................... 18 Glass Parts ...........................................
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 4 Chapter 1 About Your Kindle Fire Chapter 1 About Your Kindle Fire Status Bar At the top of the screen, you’ll see indicators that inform you about the status of your Kindle Fire. Notifications: Notifications can come from the system, a game, an application such as e-mail, or the music player. Quick Settings: Tap to display settings for commonly performed tasks, including locking and unlocking screen rotation, adjusting volume, setting display brightness, access
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 5 Chapter 1 About Your Kindle Fire Search Tap to activate the Search field. You can search your Content libraries or the web. Content Access the web or one of your Content libraries by tapping the corresponding name at the top of the Home screen: Newsstand, Books, Music, Video, Docs, Apps, or Web. Carousel Recently accessed books, music, videos, newspapers, magazines, web pages, and apps are automatically added to the Carousel. Swipe your finger to advance through th
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 6 Chapter 1 About Your Kindle Fire Registering your Kindle Fire To fully use all of the features of your Kindle Fire, you must register it to your Amazon account. If you have not yet registered, please do so now. Prior to registering, connect to a Wi-Fi network by tapping the Quick Settings icon at the top of the screen, then selecting Wi-Fi. Choose the network you want to use. Once you’re connected, tap the Quick Settings icon, then tap More and select the My Acc
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 7 Chapter 2 Shopping Chapter 2 Shopping Amazon offers a wide selection of books, newspapers, magazines, applications, music, movies, and TV shows for your Kindle Fire. To purchase titles, simply tap the “Store >” link in the top right corner of any Content library. To exit the store and return to your Content library, tap “Library >.” Within each store you can search for a title, browse by category, check out best sellers, or view recommendations. You can try be
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 8 Chapter 3 Kindle Fire Content Chapter 3 Kindle Fire Content Device and cloud storage Content purchased from Amazon is securely stored by Amazon and available in the cloud. If you are preparing to go offline, toggle to Cloud and download to your device content that you want to have available when offline. Options bar The Options bar is located at the bottom of every Content library screen. Options vary depending on the content type. Standard options include: Hom
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 9 Chapter 3 Kindle Fire Content The Options bar may be hidden when some applications are running. It can be expanded by tapping the arrow at the bottom of the screen or by swiping upwards from the bottom of the device. Content libraries Newsstand You can view your magazines and newspapers by tapping Newsstand on the Home screen. To switch between grid and list views of your content, tap the Menu icon in the Options bar. Back issues are grouped to keep your Newsstan
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 10 Chapter 3 Kindle Fire Content To go to the next page of an article, tap the right side of the screen. To go to the previous page, tap the left side. To determine your progress within an article, tap the middle of the screen. The Progress bar appears and indicates which page of the article you’re on. To go to the next article, tap the Next button on the Progress bar. To go to the previous article, tap the Previous button. To preview all the articles in a magazi
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 11 Chapter 3 Kindle Fire Content Children’s Books Children’s books on Kindle Fire now feature Kindle Text Pop-Up for reading text over vivid, full-color images. Just double-tap any text region and it will expand for easy reading. You can navigate between Text Pop-Up sections by swiping or tapping the right side (forward) and left side (back) of the screen. To exit Text Pop-Up and return to normal reading, simply double-tap anywhere on the screen. Graphic Novels Gra
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 12 Chapter 3 Kindle Fire Content Music You can view your music library by tapping Music on the Home screen. Once you’ve chosen the music you want to listen to, tap the name of the song to play it. You can create a playlist from the Playlists tab. To play a group of songs—such as an album, all songs by an artist, or a playlist—tap any song in the group. The entire group will begin playing from the song name you selected. While listening to music, view the music you h
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 13 Chapter 3 Kindle Fire Content Docs You can view your personal documents by tapping Docs on the Home screen. You and your approved contacts can send documents to your Kindle Fire by using your Send-to-Kindle e-mail address, which can be found in your Docs library under the sort options. To edit the address or add addresses to your approved list of senders, go to www.amazon.com/myk. The Send-to-Kindle e-mail address is only used for sending documents to your Kindl
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 14 Chapter 3 Kindle Fire Content Web Your Kindle Fire features Amazon Silk, an all-new web browser powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Silk overcomes the performance limitations of typical mobile browsers by residing on both your Kindle Fire and on the AWS cloud-computing platform. In short, Silk couples the capabilities and interactivity of your Kindle Fire with the massive computing power, memory, and network connectivity of Amazon’s cloud. To access Amazon Sil
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 15 Chapter 4 Settings Chapter 4 Settings Tap the Quick Settings icon located on the Status bar to display settings for the most commonly performed tasks and the volume control. If you have music playing from your Music library, a player will appear in Quick Settings. Use it to see what’s currently playing, control playback (play/pause, next, and previous), and tap the currently playing song to view your playback queue. Locked/Unlocked: Select to lock/unlock scre
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 16 Chapter 4 Settings Kindle Keyboard: Use to customize the keyboard behavior of your Kindle Fire. Options include sound on keypress, auto capitalization, and quick fixes. Device: Displays available storage space, your device’s serial number, its Wi-Fi MAC address, its system version, and an option to reset to factory defaults. Please note that resetting your Kindle Fire to its original factory settings removes all personal data, Amazon account information, downloa
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 17 Chapter 5 Finding Additional Assistance Chapter 5 Finding Additional Assistance For help using your Kindle Fire, tap the Help & Feedback App located in the Apps library. This app contains Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), troubleshooting tips, and a Customer Service portal. Please use the Feedback tab to help us improve and evolve our products. We’d love to hear from you! You can also reach the help pages by tapping the Quick Settings icon on the Status bar,
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 18 Appendix A Product Information Appendix A Product Information Safety and Compliance Information Use Responsibly. Read all instructions and safety information before use. FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS COULD RESULT IN FIRE, ELECTRIC SHOCK, OR OTHER INJURY OR DAMAGE. Maintaining Your Kindle Fire Do not use your Kindle Fire or its accessories in rain, or near sinks or other wet locations. Take care not to spill any food or liquid in your Kindle Fire. I
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 19 Appendix A Product Information Headphone Safety Listening to audio at high volume for extended periods of time can cause hearing damage. To avoid this problem, consider the tips below: • K eep the v olume do wn. • A v oid prolonged, continuous listening . • W ear headphones that isolate the w anted audio from bac k ground noise. Other Safety Considerations A small percentage of people may be susceptible to blackouts or seizures (even if they have
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Kindle Fire User’s Guide 20 Appendix A Product Information While most modern electronic equipment is shielded from external RF signals, if in doubt, check with the manufacturer. For personal medical devices (such as pacemakers and hearing aids), consult with your physician or the manufacturer to determine if they are adequately shielded from external RF signals. Steps to Minimize Interference If your Kindle Fire does cause interference to radio or television reception (which you can determ
