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Swiping left and right through the shelves will offer a carousel-like browsing experience, enabling you to (hopefully)
nd the item you’re looking for. Failing this, there are other shelves below as well as the search tool at the top of the
screen.
Across the stop of the Newsstand view you will nd a menu offering alternative views. These are split into Books, Mu-
sic, Video, Docs, Apps and Web, each grouping the content appropriate to those headings.
Tapping an item in the Newsstand will launch it; apps will launch, web pages will browse and books will open.
3.3 A Focus on Reading
With 8 GB of storage available on your Kindle Fire, you could easily spend the rest of your life enjoying books down-
loaded to the device. Although sporting a different look and feel to the more recognizable Kindle devices, the Kindle
Fire remains at heart an eBook reader.
This is why the Newsstand is so crucial to the platform – it offers an immediate route into new and recently read titles
on your device. Via the Newsstand or the Books menu, you can nd titles to read that are either stored locally or in
your account but stored in the Amazon cloud – the latter can be checked via Books > Cloud, where books can be
sorted By Author, By Recent and By Title.
Launching a book for the rst time is usually a two-step process. The rst is to download the publication, which you
can do by tapping once. A few moments later the book will be present on your device (or at least enough of it to begin
reading) and you will be able to tap the cover illustration once again.
Any books that you want to ensure are easily accessible when you switch on your Kindle Fire can be set as a favou-
rite. This is done by nding the item, using the tap and hold gesture to display a context menu and selecting Add to
Favorites, prompting the item to be set as a permanent item in the Newsstand view.
3.4 Reading Books and Documents
With the book open on your device, the pages can be turned by swiping your nger from right to left, or by tapping. By
tapping at the bottom edge of the display you can reveal the menu, which provides a Home button, Back button, Font
Size option, a menu to jump to key points through the book and even an Annotation button for adding your thoughts
about a particular passage. This menu is completed with a Search tool which can be used to jump to specic phrases