Chapter 6. Games and Multimedia on the Kindle

In addition to reading content, you can also play games and put music and audio books on your Kindle. In this chapter, you learn how to use games and multimedia content on your Kindle.

Games on the Kindle

When Amazon first began supporting games on the Kindle, it seemed like a silly idea to me. After all, what kind of gaming experience can an electronic ink display provide? It’s black and white, and the update speed on it is too slow to enable for a quality game experience. As it turns out, I was completely wrong. Amazon used game support on the Kindle to release games that are perfect not only for the Kindle device, but also for Kindle users. Amazon focused on cerebral and fun games, and playing ...

Get Using Kindle™: Your Guide to All Things Kindle and Kindle DX, Fourth Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.