January 2013
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
8h 42m
English
Content preview from Kindle Fire HD: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 4. Documents and Spreadsheets
EVEN BACK IN ITS early, steam-powered days, the Kindle filled students and businesspeople with hope: That it could store and display a personal document collection. Fantasies of a paper-free life took hold. Amazon helped things along with a clever file shuttling system (via email or USB cable) that helped with transfer chores. Problem was those pokey eInk screens. They couldn’t handle much more than basic text. And you certainly couldn’t edit documents on the Kindle—much less create them from scratch. But the Fire’s gorgeous screen and its document-slinging apps have restored hope. Now it’s not only possible to turn your Kindle into a virtual briefcase, it may become part of your everyday routine.
You have three different ways to get the job done. Each has its own set of pros and cons:
The Fire’s built-in Docs Library. Amazon chose to give this tool home-screen billing—and with good reason. It’s free, easy to use, and, if all you need to do is tote around and scroll through a PDF or Word file every so often, just right. Load your documents either by email, USB file transfer, or best of all, a nifty Mac- or PC-based utility. Reading works just as it does with Kindle ebooks. If all this sounds good, see the next section for full details.
Third-party apps. Need your mobile reading machine to do more? Perhaps you want to view and edit a Word file, tweak ...
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