Kindle Paperwhite for Dummies (17 page)

View Notes & Marks:
Display the highlighted sections, notes, and bookmarks for the current book. Popular highlights from other readers are also displayed. This feature is discussed in more detail in Chapter 9.

Reading Progress:
Select the default for the reading progress displayed at the bottom of the screen: location in book, time left in chapter, or time left in book.

You can reset the default location also by simply toggling through the choices at the bottom of the screen.

Settings:
Toggle Airplane mode on and off and access options for Wi-Fi networks, registration, reading, parental controls, time, language, and more.

If you don’t see the Settings menu choice, make sure you have firmware version 5.3.0 or later on your Kindle Paperwhite. To determine the firmware version, from the Home screen, tap Menu⇒Settings⇒Menu⇒Device Info. The firmware version is displayed in the middle of the screen. If it is less than 5.3.0, upgrade your device, as described in Chapter 1.

Reading Newspapers and Magazines

Books are typically organized into chapters, which are read in a linear fashion, that is, from beginning to end. Periodicals such as newspapers and magazines, on the other hand, usually contain a number of articles grouped by section. Readers often choose to skip around among sections and articles. Fortunately, the Kindle Paperwhite has several special features to enhance the experience of reading periodicals.

Basic navigation

From the Home screen, tap the title of the periodical you want to read. By default, it opens in a view that displays different sections, with the number of articles in each section. For example, Figure 4-7 shows the default display from a recent issue of
Reader’s Digest.

Figure 4-7:
The default Cover view of a periodical.

Tap the top of the screen to display the toolbar. The Store icon you see while reading a book has been replaced by two icons that enable you to switch between the default Cover view and the Section view. You can think of these views as similar to Cover view and List view on the Home screen (see the “Moving around the Home screen” section, previously in this chapter).

Figure 4-8 illustrates the Section view of the Sports Friday section of the
New York Times.
The left side of the screen lists the various sections and the right side lists the articles in the specific section. The bottom left shows the total number of sections (12) and the bottom right displays the total number of articles.

You can navigate through the pages of sections and articles by using the arrows at the bottom of the screen or by simply swiping the screen.

Figure 4-8:
The Section view of a periodical.

You can move forward in a periodical in a linear fashion by tapping the title of the next article at the bottom of the screen. The percentage that appears to the left of this navigation bar shows how far in the article you’ve read.

Menu options for periodicals

When you tap the Menu icon while reading in a periodical, you see fewer options than those for a book:

Shop Kindle Store:
Go to the Kindle Store to browse and find periodicals.

Keep This Issue:
Store the periodical on your device until you choose to remove it. (When a periodical has already been stored, the option changes to Do Not Keep This Issue.)

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