Table of Contents
Introduction 1
An Overview of the Various Kindle Fire Models .................................2
What’s New on the Kindle Fire
...........................................................................3
What You’ll Find in This Book
............................................................................... 4
How to Navigate This Book
...................................................................................5
Let’s Light This Fire
........................................................................................................7
1 Getting Started with the Kindle Fire 9
The Hardware..................................................................................................................10
Initial Setup
.......................................................................................................................11
Setting Up Your Kindle Fire
........................................................................12
Connecting to an Unlisted Wi-Fi Network
....................................14
Connecting to Facebook and Twitter
...............................................15
The Home Screen
........................................................................................................15
Downloading Items
..........................................................................................17
Removing Downloaded Items from Your Kindle Fire
.........18
Adding an Item to Favorites
......................................................................18
Removing an Item from Favorites
.......................................................19
Rearranging Favorites
.....................................................................................20
Navigating the Kindle Fire
...................................................................................20
Accessing Content Libraries
......................................................................22
Opening Navigation Panels
.......................................................................24
Notifications and Options
...................................................................................25
Viewing Notifications
......................................................................................26
Using the Options Bar
.....................................................................................26
Switching Applications or Content
.....................................................27
Settings
.................................................................................................................................27
Locking the Screen Orientation
.............................................................28
Adjusting Screen Brightness
.....................................................................29
Enabling Airplane Mode
...............................................................................29
Using Quiet Time to Disable Notifications
...................................30
Changing the Screen Timeout
................................................................31
Checking Device Information
..................................................................33