Chapter 6

Music

It is hard to believe that the way that music is distributed and sold has changed so much in so little time. Thanks to the internet and MP3 players, CDs are almost a dead format. Every once in a while, I wonder how long it will be before all music is digital.

The Kindle Fire is prepared for this era with its Music feature. Like iTunes for the iPod, the Kindle Fire has its own Music store so that you can buy the music that you want to hear, and put it in a playlist so that you can hear it in whatever order that you desire.

You can listen to your personalized playlists while you are doing other tasks on Kindle Fire, like reading a journal from the Newsstand, reading an e-book, surfing the web, or running an app. As long as what ...

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