User's Guide

Kindle User’s Guide

Chapter 3

Reading Kindle Documents

This Book, and change the Popular Highlights setting. You can also display notes and

highlights from people that you follow on https://kindle.amazon.com. To turn off this option,

tap the Menu button and select Settings. On the Settings page, select Reading Options,

Notes & About This Book, and change the Public Notes setting. The Popular Highlights

and Public Notes features are not supported in all countries.

Notes and highlights are added to a file on the Home screen called My Clippings. When

Whispersync for Books is set to Enabled, these items are stored in the Cloud for you so

they won't be lost. To manage the Whispersync for Books setting, tap the Menu button

and select Settings. On the Settings page, select Device Options, Personalize your Kindle,

Advanced Options, then Whispersync for Books.

Bookmarks

Amazon's Whispersync technology automatically saves your place in whatever content

you are reading. To bookmark a page, tap the Bookmark button on the reading toolbar

and tap the plus sign next to the location or page information. A black bookmark will

appear in the top right corner of the page. The Bookmark button on the toolbar changes

from white to black on bookmarked pages.

Bookmark tips:

 You can view a list of all of your bookmarks within a book by tapping the Bookmark button

on the reading toolbar or by tapping the top right corner of the page.

 To preview a bookmarked page or location, tap any bookmark in the list. To go to the

selected location, tap inside the preview pane. To remain on the current page and exit the

bookmark feature, tap outside of the preview pane.

 To delete a bookmark, tap the Bookmark button on the reading toolbar, find the bookmark

you want to delete in the list, tap the bookmark to select it, then tap the X next to it.

 Bookmarks are added to a file on the Home screen called My Clippings. When

Whispersync for Books is set to Enabled, these items are stored in the Cloud for you so

they won't be lost.

Footnotes

To quickly preview a footnote without losing your place in the book, tap the footnote. To go

to the selected footnote location, scroll to the bottom of the footnote preview pane and tap

Go to Footnotes. To return to your original location, tap the X on the preview pane. Note

that not all books support the Footnotes feature.

Before you go...

The Before you go... dialog appears when you reach the end of a book, or after you swipe

past the final page of a book, and enables you to rate the book using stars and purchase

the next book in a series.