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Chapter 2 Getting to Know Kindle Content
The Kindle Home screen gives you an overall picture of what you currently have on your Kindle. It
shows you what you are reading, and where you are in your reading. It also allows you to remove
content from your Kindle and to move content from Amazon to your Kindle. Read below for more
details.
2.1 The Home Screen
The Home screen displays a list of all of your Kindle reading materials—books, newspapers, maga-
zines, blogs, PDF files, personal documents, and audiobooks. It serves as a personal bookshelf for all
of your reading material, as well as a starting point to access other Kindle features.
To display the Home screen, press the Home button on your Kindle. By default, the Home screen lists
all of the items that you have on your Kindle beginning with the most recently viewed (or acquired)
items. Each type of content has a slightly different description and label. You can read more about
the types of content available in Chapter 3.
Special Oers and Sponsored Screensavers
For Kindle with Special Offers, you will see special offers at the bottom of the Home screen. To view
additional details, navigate to the offer banner and press the center of the 5-way
controller. In some cases, you can purchase special offers directly from your Kindle.
Kindle Books
Books are shown by title and author. Below the book title are a series of dots which give you an
approximation of how long the book is. Bold dots within the series indicate how far along you are in
the book based on the last page you viewed.
Periodicals
Periodicals include newspapers and magazines that can be purchased as a single issue or as a sub-
scription delivered on a regular basis. Your Home screen lists the most recent issue of each periodi-
cal you have on your Kindle. Older issues appear inside a grouping called Periodicals: Back Issues.
Selecting the grouping takes you to a screen that displays the back issues of all the periodicals you
have on your Kindle. Note that Kindle automatically deletes issues that are more than seven issues
old to free up space for new content. An exclamation point
next to an issue indicates that it will
be deleted within 24 hours. To keep an issue, see “More about Managing Items.”
Collections
Collection names appear in an italicized font to differentiate them from books and other items. The
number of items in each collection is displayed in parentheses to the right of
the collection’s name.
Blogs
Blogs are subscription-based and appear on the Home screen as a single entry like books.
As additional blog content arrives, it is added to the item and older entries are rolled off,
much like a blog works on a computer.
Chapter 2
Getting to Know Kindle Content