Kindle Paperwhite for Dummies (18 page)

View Notes & Marks:
Display the highlighted sections, notes, and bookmarks for the current periodical.

Share:
Share articles of interest on Facebook and Twitter. See Chapter 9 for more information on using these social media sites to share favorite content with your friends.

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

In addition, the secondary toolbar sports a Clip This Article option. Tap that option to save an article to your My Clippings file. My Clippings is listed on your Home screen, just like a book or other content. If it isn’t at the top of the list, swipe through the pages — it is probably at the end.

Reading Comic Books and Manga

Do you enjoy graphic novels, comics, and manga? You can read all these on your Kindle Paperwhite. A few special features improve the reading experience for these visual documents.

Panel view:
In a book with multiple panels on a page (see Figure 4-9), you can double-tap the screen to enlarge each panel to full-screen for an optimized reading experience. In this Panel view, simply tap the screen to advance through each panel individually. When you reach the last panel (the equivalent of reading one page in the print version), the screen displays the next page of panels, and then displays each panel separately as you tap. In this way, you can see the “big picture” but also read each panel easily. Double-tap to exit Panel view.

Refresh every page:
You can set the screen refresh to refresh every page in a comic, graphic novel, or manga — independent of the setting you have for other books on your device. Tap Menu⇒Page Refresh. The menu will display Page Refresh On (see Figure 4-10) or Page Refresh Off, depending on what you have selected.

Figure 4-9:
A page with eight panels in a graphic novel.

Figure 4-10:
Page Refresh option in a graphic novel.

If the Refresh on Every Page option doesn’t appear on the menu, the book has probably not been configured to take advantage of this feature.

Creating Collections

As you use your Kindle Paperwhite, you’ll likely deal with a long and growing list of e-books and other content on the device, and putting your fingers on specific content can become challenging.

You can organize this cornucopia of content with collections. For example, if you want to keep track of all books you’ve read in a given year, you could create a Finished in 2012 collection. You might want to put dictionaries and product manuals in a References collection. (Note that a Dictionaries collection is automatically created for you; it appears at the end of your list of content.) Perhaps you want to set up collections for your favorite genres: Paranormal, Romance, Horror, Biographies, and so on.

For some clever titles for collections, see the list in Chapter 11.

Note that periodical back issues are stored in their own collection, following the Dictionaries collection in your list of content. You can’t create a collection containing both periodicals and books.

To create a collection, follow these steps:

1. From the Home screen, tap the Menu icon.

2. Tap Create New Collection.

A pop-up window appears.

3. Using the onscreen keyboard, enter a name for the new collection.

A list of your content appears.

4. Tap the check box for each title you want to add to the collection.

5. When you’re finished,
tap Done.

The collection is created.

You can add books after you’ve created a collection as follows:

1. From the Home screen, tap and briefly hold down on the name of the e-book.

A set of options appears.

2. Tap Add to Collection.

3. Select the collection to which you want to add the book.

You can assign a book to more than one collection. For example, you might put a book in a Finished collection as well as a Biographies collection.