CHAPTER 3
Reading on Kindle
Kindle retains the best qualities of printed books, but adds many features that are only available
through digital technologies such as word look up, changeable text size, and clippings. This chapter
explains more about Kindle's reading features.
3.1 Types of Content
There are many types of reading material available for your Kindle such as books, newspapers,
magazines, and blogs. If you want to begin purchasing and downloading reading material, you can
learn more in Chapter 5. You can also purchase audiobooks from Audible.com and even have
Amazon convert and deliver personal documents to your Kindle. The different types of supported
content are described below.
Books
Thousands of your favorite books are available at the Kindle Store. Once you buy a book, it usually
arrives wirelessly in under a minute. Because you can't always judge a book by its cover, you can
download and read a sample of most Kindle books for free. If you like it, simply buy it from within
the sample and continue reading. You can learn more about this feature in Chapter 5.
Newspapers
The Kindle Store offers a selection of U.S. and international newspapers. Subscriptions are delivered
wirelessly to your Kindle overnight so that the latest edition is waiting for you every morning, and
every newspaper subscription starts with a free trial. Should you choose to subscribe, your favorite
periodicals are delivered wirelessly wherever you go, whether you are at home or on the road.
Magazines
The Kindle Store offers an expanding selection of magazines to meet every interest. As with
newspapers, all periodical subscriptions are delivered wirelessly and start with a free trial.
Blogs
The Kindle Store offers hundreds of Kindle blogs, including up-to-the-minute news feeds and topical
blogs from the worlds of business, technology, sports, and politics. Kindle blogs are sent to you
wirelessly throughout the day, allowing you to keep current. Unlike traditional feeds which often only
provide headlines, Kindle feeds download the complete feed onto the device so you can read them
even when you are not wirelessly connected.
Personal Documents
In addition to purchased content, you can read your personal documents on Kindle as well. If you
have files formatted as Kindle, text, Microsoft Word, HTML, or image files like GIF or JPEG, you
can e-mail the files as attachments to your Kindle e-mail address. Amazon will convert the files if
