Amazon Fire HDX Operation & User’s Manual

Text of Amazon Fire HDX User Guide:

• Amazon Fire HDX, 6 Introduction • Chapter 2, “Accessing Amazon’s Cloud Services,” covers managing and transferring your content between Amazon’s cloud, your personal com- puter, and your Kindle Fire. • Chapter 3, “Using Amazon’s Manage Your Kindle Page,” shows you how to access the Manage Your Kindle page on the Internet, where you can review your Kindle library, rename your Kindle Fire, manage all your Kindle devices and Kindle apps, and much more. • Chapter 4, “Reading on the Kindle Fire,” describes how to find reading material and take advantage of the Kindle Fire’s powerful features for reading books, newspapers, magazi

• Amazon Fire HDX, Chapter 2 Accessing Amazon’s Cloud Services 60 3. Tap the menu icon. 4. Select Download. 34 Amazon Cloud Player Amazon Cloud Player is a convenient way to manage music on your Cloud Drive. You can also use it to listen to your music when you don’t have your Kindle Fire with you, because it is available from any computer with Internet access or on most mobile devices. Album Your Music Play controls Now Playing Songs

• Amazon Fire HDX, 333 viewing taps canceling, 20 double-tapping, 21 test driving apps, 186 text accent marks, 38 copying/cutting/ pasting, 37 cursor positioning, 36 diacriticals, 38 editing, 36 entering, 35 numbers, 37 photos, adding, 281 punctuation marks, 37 selecting, 36 shortcuts, 35 text-to-speech, 139 third-party apps, sideload- ing, 198 time limits (FreeTime), 309-311 timeout setting, 31-32 Time to Read display, 119 tools (photos) Blemish, 281 Focus, 283 Meme, 282 Splash, 284 transferring files from com- puters, 78 Linux, 80 Macs, 79 PCs, 79 trophies (GameCircle), 223 troubleshooting apps data, clearing, 195 force-stopp

• Amazon Fire HDX, Chapter 2 Accessing Amazon’s Cloud Services 7474 Accessing Kindle Reader Applications Before you can read Kindle books on your computer, tablet, or smart- phone, you must download and install the appropriate app. 1. In a web browser, go to www. amazon.com. 2. In the Shop By Department menu, choose Kindle E-readers, and then choose Free Kindle Reading Apps. 3. Select your computer or device and follow the directions for downloading and installing the appropriate app. Downloading Smartphone and Tablet Apps The information pages for each of the smartphone and tablet apps (iPhone and iPod Touch, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, iPad, Android Tablet

• Amazon Fire HDX, 57 Amazon Cloud Drive Downloading the Cloud Drive Application If you use your Cloud Drive on a regular basis, you might find it easier to download and use the Amazon Cloud Drive application. You can download and install it when you see the prompt as you attempt to upload from your web browser, or you can install it at any other time. 1. On your computer, go to www. amazon.com. 2. Hover over the Shop by Department menu. 3. Point to Amazon Cloud Drive. 4. Click Get the Desktop App. 5. On the page that appears, click Free Download. The application downloa

• Amazon Fire HDX, xiii About the Author About the Author Jennifer Kettell is the author of Scrivener Absolute Beginner’s Guide and has written and contributed to dozens of other books about software applications, web design, and digital photography. She also writes fiction. When Jenn isn’t writing, she can usually be found curled up with a good book, reading almost a book a day. Jenn has lived all over the United States but currently calls upstate New York home. Visit her website at www. jenniferkettell.com.

• My Kindle Fire HDX viii Immersion Reading ....................................................................................... 137 Using Text-to-Speech .................................................................................. 139 Searching Content and Accessing Reference Materials ....... 140 Using X-Ray for Books ....................................................................

• Amazon Fire HDX, 65 Amazon Cloud Player 8. Click Start Scan. The Amazon Music Importer application scans your hard drive, includ- ing your iTunes folders (if you have one), for music. 9. After the scan is complete, you might be prompted to choose to upgrade to Cloud Player Premium for $24.99 a year or to select up to 250 songs free. If you have previ- ously imported songs to your Amazon Cloud Player, the number of free songs remain- ing in your limit appears on the Import button. 8 9

• Amazon Fire HDX, 76 Chapter 2 Accessing Amazon’s Cloud Services Opening and Downloading Books When you select a book, the Kindle Reader app or Amazon Cloud Reader automatically begins downloading it to your device or computer. This makes the book available even if you continue reading offline. 1. Locate the book you want to read. You can click the magnifying glass at the top of the screen to search for books, if necessary. 2. Click a book to start reading it. If you are using the Kindle Cloud Reader, the book begins downloading to your computer as you read. If you are using one of the other Kindle Reader

• Amazon Fire HDX, Index 334 viewing device information, 33-34 docs, 85 downloaded playlists, 159 email attachments, 243 highlights, 127 notes, 125-127 notifications, 26 PDFs, 248-250 photos, 273-274 song lyrics, 153 spreadsheets, 252-253 subscriptions, 187 video details, 165-166 web browsing history, 300-301 Word documents, 250 VIPs (contacts), 255 volume button, 10 music, 152 W watching movies/TV shows/ videos, 172-173, 178 Watchlist (videos), 175-176 web browsing bookmarks, 298-300 default search engine, 297 history, 300-301 hyperlinks, copying/ opening, 296 images, saving, 296 navigating p

• Amazon Fire HDX, 79 Transferring Files from Your Computer Transferring Files from a PC If you’re using Windows Vista or later, the Kindle Fire automatically shows up as an available external USB drive. After connecting your Kindle Fire to your PC using the micro-USB cable, follow these steps: 1. In Windows Explorer, click Computer. 2. Click Kindle. 3. Double-click Internal Storage. 4. Copy your files from their origi- nal location on your PC into the appropriate folders in the Internal Storage folder. Transferring Files from a Mac If you’re using a Mac, you must down- load Android File Transfer, a free app

• 64 Chapter 2 Accessing Amazon’s Cloud Services 5. Click the Download Now button to download the Amazon Music Importer applica- tion, and follow the installation instructions. 6. Open the Amazon Music Importer application, and enter your Amazon account infor- mation. 7. Press Sign In Using Our Secure Server. 5 6 7

• Index 332 sharing web pages email, 295 Facebook, 294 sideloading, 78 Linux, 80 Macs, 79 PCs, 79 third-party apps, 198 signatures (email), 235 Silk, 291 bookmarks current pages, 298 editing, 300 following, 299 hyperlinks, 298-299 removing, 300 viewing, 299 browsing history, 300-301 default search engine, 297 hyperlinks, copying/ opening, 296 images, saving, 29

• Amazon Fire HDX, vii Table of Contents 4 Reading on the Kindle Fire 103 Finding Content ........................................................................................................ 103 Buying Books ...................................................................................................... 104 Using the Kindle Lending Library ..................................................... 106 Completing Your Book Collection with MatchBook ........ 107 Lending Books to Friends and Family ..............................

• Amazon Fire HDX, 331 sharing music, 148 password protecting, 318 periodical subscriptions, 110-111 TV shows costs, 170 episodes, 168 seasons, 169 TV passes, 171-172 Q Quick Links bar, 16 Quick Switch bar, 27 Quickoffice Pro app, 254 Quiet Time, enabling, 30 R ratings books, 210-211 content control, 316 reactivating subscriptions, 93 reading books, 118 definitions, looking up, 122 font styles, 121-122 navigating, 120 page/location num- bers, 121 email, 242 immersion reading, 137-138 magazines, 130-132 newspapers, 133-134 PDFs, 248-250 searches current items, 141-142 Wikipedia/Web, 143 X-Ray, 140-141 Word documents, 250 recording videos, 288 recovering files, 55 redeye (

• Amazon Fire HDX, 75 Kindle Reader Applications and Kindle Cloud Reader Accessing Kindle Cloud Reader The Kindle Cloud Reader makes it possible to read your Kindle books in your web browser from any location with Internet access. Kindle Cloud Reader requires a current version of either Google Chrome (www.google. com/chrome), Apple Safari (www. apple.com/safari), or Firefox (www. getfirefox.com). It does not run on Microsoft Internet Explorer. 1. Browse to read.amazon.com using your web browser. You can also go to www.amazon.com, choose Kindle from the Shop by Department menu, and then select Kindle Cloud Reader. 2. Click the Get Started Now button. 3. Enter your em

• Amazon Fire HDX, 66 Chapter 2 Accessing Amazon’s Cloud Services 10. To select which songs to import into your Cloud Player, check the boxes to the left of the song, album, artist, or playlist title. 11. Click Import Selected. 12. When the import is finished, click Close. 10 11 Importing Directory from the Cloud Player Website You can bypass steps 1–3 by opening your browser and navigating directly to www. amazon.com/cloudplayer. Music that you purchase directly from Amazon’s MP3 Store is automatically added to your Amazon Cloud Player, which makes it almost instantly available on your Kindle Fire. It also does not count against the 250 song or Premium storage limitation on

• Amazon Fire HDX, 77 Kindle Reader Applications and Kindle Cloud Reader Reading Books on the Kindle Cloud Reader The Kindle Cloud Reader has many features to make reading a book more enjoyable. The other Kindle Reader applications are similar but might have slight differences in the loca- tion and method for accessing some features. 1. Open a book as described in the previous section. If the book has been opened previ- ously on any Kindle device, it automatically opens at the farthest point read. 2. To turn pages, use the arrow keys on your keyboard or click the arrows on the left and right sides of the page. 3. Quickly acc

• Amazon Fire HDX, 325 email synchronizing, 257 syncing from Facebook, 259 viewing, 254-255 content archiving, 268-269 controlling by ratings, 316 FreeTime managing, 308-309 removing, 314 libraries accessing, 22-23 navigation panels, opening, 24 searching, 41 switching, 27 converting music, 67 copying hyperlinks, 296 text, 37 URLs, 295 covers, 10 credit cards, updating, 95-96 cropping photos, 279 cursors, positioning, 36 cutting text, 37 D daily time limits (FreeTime), 309-311 data (apps), clearing, 195 definitions, looking up, 122 deleting. See removing deregistering Kindle apps/ devices, 97 devices books downloading, 112-113 removing, 113 deregistering, 97 inform

• 55 Amazon Cloud Drive Deleting Folders You can delete folders from your Cloud Drive that you no longer need or to free up some space. 1. Click Your Cloud Drive so that your folders are visible. 2. Check the box to the left of the folder(s) you want to delete. 3. Click Delete. You will not see con- firmation of this action, so be sure you choose your files corre

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