The Complete 2012 User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle: Covers All Current Kindles Including the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, and Kindle by Bruce Grubbs, Stephen Windwalker Page B
Authors: Bruce Grubbs, Stephen Windwalker
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those of us with less than perfect vision, it's also great for reading in poor light (not that we are recommending that!) or if you forgot your reading glasses.
Basic:
Press Menu and select “Change Font Size”. You can also change screen orientation from this pop-up.
Keyboard, DX:
Press the Aa key. You can also change screen orientation from this pop-up.
Touch :
To change text size, pinch your thumb and index finger together or apart on the screen. Or tap the top of the screen to bring up the menu and status bars, then tap Aa at the bottom left corner of the screen.
Fire:
. Change text size by tapping the middle of the screen and selecting “Aa” from the bottom menu. Then select the desired size type and line spacing.
Zooming Images
Basic, Keyboard, DX:
To see detail in an illustration or a photo, move the cursor until an icon of a magnifying glass with a plus [+] sign appears in the center of the image. Then click to enlarge the image to full screen. Landscape images will rotate so they fill the entire screen. To return to your previous place, press any key.
Touch:
To zoom in on a image or web page, pinch your thumb and index finger together or apart on the screen. Or you can long-press on the center of the screen, then tap the magnifying glass icon that appears. To return the image to normal size, tap on the image.
Fire:
Long-press the imageand tap “Zoom. Tap the “X” to return to the previous screen.Navigating Within Your Book
Basic, Keyboard, DX:
On many e-books that are organized into chapters, you can skip to the next or previous chapter by pressing the five-way controller to the right or left. You can skip to the beginning of the current chapter by pressing the five-way controller left, or to the beginning of the previous chapter by pressing the five-way controller to the left twice.
Press Menu and then select "Go to..." to get more choices. From the pop-up screen, you can enter a location number to go directly to that location. (See the Where Am I? - Locations in an E Book section for information on e-book locations.)
Touch:
If the book is organized into chapters and supports it, you can move between chapters by swiping up or down.
Press “Go To” to pop up a menu with navigation options.
Fire:
Tap the center of the screen, and then tap the Menu icon at the bottom of the screen to pop up a list of navigation options.
Skipping among chapters is not supported on the Fire at present.
Navigation options let you move directly to the table of contents, the cover, the beginning, or the end of a book by selecting the on-screen choices. You can also enter a specific location. On E Ink Kindles, you can enter a page number if the book supports page numbers. These options are described in the following section.
Where Am I? - Locations in an E-Book
While you're reading, a progress bar will appear on the bottom of the E Ink Kindle screen on all Kindles except the Touch and Fire. The Touch does not have a progress bar while reading books. To see the progress bar on the Fire, tap the center of the screen.
The length of the bar represents the length of the document you're reading. The solid bar that starts from the left shows how much of the document you've already read, as does the percentage number above the left end. A small downward-pointing carat marks the point at which you started reading during this session. Dots in the progress bar mark points within the text such as bookmarks and chapters. (Not all books have chapters or chapter marks.)
Since the Kindle allows you to resize the text on the screen, as well as to change font styles and line spacing, the concept of fixed page numbers is not very helpful. Instead, Kindle e-books are marked with locations, which always refer to the same place, no matter how the text is resized. However, Amazon has been adding page-number navigation to
Basic:
Press Menu and select “Change Font Size”. You can also change screen orientation from this pop-up.
Keyboard, DX:
Press the Aa key. You can also change screen orientation from this pop-up.
Touch :
To change text size, pinch your thumb and index finger together or apart on the screen. Or tap the top of the screen to bring up the menu and status bars, then tap Aa at the bottom left corner of the screen.
Fire:
. Change text size by tapping the middle of the screen and selecting “Aa” from the bottom menu. Then select the desired size type and line spacing.
Zooming Images
Basic, Keyboard, DX:
To see detail in an illustration or a photo, move the cursor until an icon of a magnifying glass with a plus [+] sign appears in the center of the image. Then click to enlarge the image to full screen. Landscape images will rotate so they fill the entire screen. To return to your previous place, press any key.
Touch:
To zoom in on a image or web page, pinch your thumb and index finger together or apart on the screen. Or you can long-press on the center of the screen, then tap the magnifying glass icon that appears. To return the image to normal size, tap on the image.
Fire:
Long-press the imageand tap “Zoom. Tap the “X” to return to the previous screen.Navigating Within Your Book
Basic, Keyboard, DX:
On many e-books that are organized into chapters, you can skip to the next or previous chapter by pressing the five-way controller to the right or left. You can skip to the beginning of the current chapter by pressing the five-way controller left, or to the beginning of the previous chapter by pressing the five-way controller to the left twice.
Press Menu and then select "Go to..." to get more choices. From the pop-up screen, you can enter a location number to go directly to that location. (See the Where Am I? - Locations in an E Book section for information on e-book locations.)
Touch:
If the book is organized into chapters and supports it, you can move between chapters by swiping up or down.
Press “Go To” to pop up a menu with navigation options.
Fire:
Tap the center of the screen, and then tap the Menu icon at the bottom of the screen to pop up a list of navigation options.
Skipping among chapters is not supported on the Fire at present.
Navigation options let you move directly to the table of contents, the cover, the beginning, or the end of a book by selecting the on-screen choices. You can also enter a specific location. On E Ink Kindles, you can enter a page number if the book supports page numbers. These options are described in the following section.
Where Am I? - Locations in an E-Book
While you're reading, a progress bar will appear on the bottom of the E Ink Kindle screen on all Kindles except the Touch and Fire. The Touch does not have a progress bar while reading books. To see the progress bar on the Fire, tap the center of the screen.
The length of the bar represents the length of the document you're reading. The solid bar that starts from the left shows how much of the document you've already read, as does the percentage number above the left end. A small downward-pointing carat marks the point at which you started reading during this session. Dots in the progress bar mark points within the text such as bookmarks and chapters. (Not all books have chapters or chapter marks.)
Since the Kindle allows you to resize the text on the screen, as well as to change font styles and line spacing, the concept of fixed page numbers is not very helpful. Instead, Kindle e-books are marked with locations, which always refer to the same place, no matter how the text is resized. However, Amazon has been adding page-number navigation to
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