December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
14h 27m
English
Content preview from Amazon Fire Phone: The Missing Manual
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Chapter 4. Books and Magazines
You’ll learn to:
Use the Kindle app to read books
Use notes, highlighting, and bookmarks
Buy books from the Amazon bookstore
Subscribe to magazines
THE FIRE PHONE WEARS its Amazon heritage proudly. It’s one of the reasons many people buy it. Not surprisingly, some of its most important features are tied directly to Amazon. You can read and manage your books with the same Kindle reader you use on other devices.
Using the Kindle App
THE FIRE PHONE MAY not be a tablet, but its 4.7-inch 1280 x 720 resolution screen does an impressive job with books. No, it’s not well suited for big picture books, but for most everything else, it delivers what you need. On the Carousel or Apps Grid, tap the Kindle icon, and it springs into action.
Tip
You can also access your Kindle library by swiping from the left of the Home screen (or using the one-handed Tilt gesture) to access the left panel and tapping Books, which opens the Kindle app.
You’ll see any Kindle books you own already there waiting for you. To read or download a book, tap its thumbnail. If the book isn’t downloaded yet, it will take a short while for the book to download to the phone.
When you download a book to the phone for the first time, you’ll see an orange New sash in the thumbnail’s upper-right corner. Any book ...
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