- Finding Content
- Reading Books
- Using Notes
- Working with Highlights
- Working with Bookmarks
- Reading Magazines and Newspapers
- Managing Personal Documents
- Searching Content
Managing Personal Documents
In addition to Kindle content from Amazon, your Kindle Fire also directly supports reading of text files and Adobe PDF files. Other file types are supported, but they first have to be converted to a format that the Kindle Fire can handle.
Emailing a Personal Document to Kindle Fire
The easiest way to convert a document for reading on your Kindle Fire is by emailing the document to your kindle.com email address. When you do, the Kindle Personal Document Service converts the document for you and delivers it to your Kindle over the Wi-Fi connection.
- If you don’t already know your kindle.com email address, tap Docs from the Home screen to display it.
- Create a new email message on your computer addressed to your kindle.com address.
- Attach the document you want to convert to the email message.
- Send the email message.
Sideloading Personal Documents
You can sideload personal documents, as described earlier in this chapter, as long as they are in a format that the Kindle Fire supports natively. You should convert files that are not natively supported by the Kindle Fire using the Kindle Personal Document Service or a tool such as Calibre. (Calibre is discussed in detail in Chapter 5.)
- Connect your Kindle Fire to your computer using a micro-USB cable.
- Wait until your Kindle Fire notifies you that you can transfer files to it.
- Open your Kindle Fire on your computer and locate the Documents folder.
- Copy your personal document to the Documents folder.
- Disconnect your Kindle Fire from your computer.
Reading Personal Documents
Your experience in reading personal documents differs depending on what type of file the document is. Personal documents in Mobi eBook format have all of the features you’re used to from Kindle books, but other formats offer only a basic reading experience.
Deleting Personal Documents
You can easily delete personal documents from your Kindle Fire using the Docs screen.
- From the Docs screen, tap and hold on the personal document you want to delete.
- Tap Delete.