Kindle Paperwhite for Dummies (16 page)

Discovering your reading speed

The Kindle Paperwhite can learn your reading speed, so it can tell you how many minutes or hours of reading time remain in the current chapter or book.

How does the Kindle Paperwhite determine how much reading time is left in a chapter or book? When you first open a book,
Learning reading speed
appears at the bottom of the screen. After the device calculates your reading speed, it uses this figure for the rest of your reading experience in that particular document.

The device can relearn your reading speed. This feature is helpful if you have paged very quickly through a book, making the reading speed inaccurate. Simply tap the top of the screen to display the toolbar, touch the Search icon (see the margin), and type the following:

;ReadingTimeReset


Tap the search arrow and the device will display
0 search results.
Press the Back icon and
Learning reading speed
will again be displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Menu options for books

When reading a book, you can access useful features by tapping the top of the screen to display the toolbar and then tapping the Menu icon.

The following options appear:

Shop Kindle Store:
Go to the Kindle Store to browse and find e-books.

Book Description:
Display the book’s Kindle Store description. Wireless must be on (that is, Airplane mode must be off) to view this information.

About the Author:
When available, see biographical information about the author as well as a list of other Kindle books that the author has written.

Landscape Mode:
Change the orientation of the page from portrait to landscape mode.

In landscape mode, you need to tap the top of the page (which would normally be the left side of the screen) to display the toolbar.

Sync to Furthest Page Read:
If you (or others on your Amazon account) have viewed the current book on another device, you can adjust your location to the furthest page read.

Select this option if you want to use Whispersync to synchronize your Kindle Paperwhite book with an audio book from Audible. Audio books and Whispersync are described in Chapter 9.

Add Bookmark:
Save a particular location in a book. One book can have multiple bookmarks. You can tell whether your current location is bookmarked by a little dog-ear icon that appears in the top-right corner. (When a location has already been bookmarked, the option changes to Delete Bookmark.)

A faster way to add a bookmark is to simply tap the top-right corner of the screen. Tap the corner again to remove the bookmark.