The Complete 2012 User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle: Covers All Current Kindles Including the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, and Kindle by Bruce Grubbs, Stephen Windwalker Page B
Authors: Bruce Grubbs, Stephen Windwalker
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Guide and information is buried in the on line Kindle Help, it is easy to use although limited in functionality.
Hopefully Amazon will add photo viewing as a built-in library function with a future software update. In the meantime, you can download several photo apps that provide more capability.
Since the Fire has limited memory, you should resize your photos to medium resolution, ideally 1024 x 600 pixels, before sideloading them to the Fire.
Transferring Your Photos
To transfer photos to the Fire, connect it to your computer with a USB to micro-USB cable. The Kindle appears as a disk drive on your computer. Copy your photos to the Pictures folder on the Fire. If you like, you can create folders on the Fire to organize your images.
When you are finished, eject the Kindle from your computer and disconnect the USB cable.
You can also e-mail photos to your @kindle.com address for free conversion and transfer to your Fire via wireless. This is not an ideal solution because the images are converted to PRC format and appear in the Docs library.
Viewing Your Photos
Go to Home and select the Apps library. Tap the Gallery app. Gallery opens with thumbnails of your photos, or icons of your folders if you have any.
Tap a folder to open it and view thumbnails of your photos. While in a folder, you can view thumbnails or tap the icon in the upper right corner to view photos by date.
Swipe to scroll through the thumbnails and tap on any image to view it.
Tap Back to return to thumbnail view. If you tap Menu while viewing an image, you have several options. You can share an image via e-mail, delete it, look at details including file name, type, creation date, album (folder) name, and file size, as well as crop and rotate it.
You can also zoom in and out by pinching or using the magnifying icons. To start a slide show, tap the slide show icon.
These three icons are not always visible - to bring them up, tap on the image.
When you're finished viewing your photos, tap Home to return to the Home screen. Gallery will show up on the Carousel- long-press it to add it to your Favorites if you wish.
Other Photo Apps
Since the Gallery app is limited in its functions, you'll probably want to try another app. PicSay Pro is a paid app that adds photo editing capability to the Fire, including resize, crop and straighten, flip, rotate, painting, and black and white conversion. You can adjust exposure, contrast, saturation, color temperature, tint, and brightness. You can mark photos with stickers and word balloon and add titles. You can also share photos via e-mail and Photobucket.
Browsing the web
One of the most underreported features of the Kindle is its web browser. We can hope this will begin to change with the release of the Kindle Fire, which features the fast Silk browser.
E Ink Kindles feature a browser based on the webkit open source browser engine that also underlies the Apple Safari browser. The browser gives you free access to the web whenever the Kindle has a Wi-Fi connection. If you have a 3G Kindle Keyboard, you can browse the web anywhere you have a 3G connection.
While the E Ink Kindle browser is no substitute for a computer-based web browser or the Kindle Fire browser, you can check your e-mail and follow links embedded in reading material. An article mode on the E-Ink Kindles displays only the main text in a web page, making it easier to read. A similar feature called “Reader” is available on the Fire.
Technically the web browser on the E Ink Kindles is considered an experimental feature by Amazon, which means that Amazon can modify or remove it at any time. The fact that Amazon significantly upgraded the browser with the release of the Kindle Keyboard makes it quite unlikely that they will remove this feature.
Keep in mind that the web browser on the E Ink Kindles is basic and that some pages may not load.
Hopefully Amazon will add photo viewing as a built-in library function with a future software update. In the meantime, you can download several photo apps that provide more capability.
Since the Fire has limited memory, you should resize your photos to medium resolution, ideally 1024 x 600 pixels, before sideloading them to the Fire.
Transferring Your Photos
To transfer photos to the Fire, connect it to your computer with a USB to micro-USB cable. The Kindle appears as a disk drive on your computer. Copy your photos to the Pictures folder on the Fire. If you like, you can create folders on the Fire to organize your images.
When you are finished, eject the Kindle from your computer and disconnect the USB cable.
You can also e-mail photos to your @kindle.com address for free conversion and transfer to your Fire via wireless. This is not an ideal solution because the images are converted to PRC format and appear in the Docs library.
Viewing Your Photos
Go to Home and select the Apps library. Tap the Gallery app. Gallery opens with thumbnails of your photos, or icons of your folders if you have any.
Tap a folder to open it and view thumbnails of your photos. While in a folder, you can view thumbnails or tap the icon in the upper right corner to view photos by date.
Swipe to scroll through the thumbnails and tap on any image to view it.
Tap Back to return to thumbnail view. If you tap Menu while viewing an image, you have several options. You can share an image via e-mail, delete it, look at details including file name, type, creation date, album (folder) name, and file size, as well as crop and rotate it.
You can also zoom in and out by pinching or using the magnifying icons. To start a slide show, tap the slide show icon.
These three icons are not always visible - to bring them up, tap on the image.
When you're finished viewing your photos, tap Home to return to the Home screen. Gallery will show up on the Carousel- long-press it to add it to your Favorites if you wish.
Other Photo Apps
Since the Gallery app is limited in its functions, you'll probably want to try another app. PicSay Pro is a paid app that adds photo editing capability to the Fire, including resize, crop and straighten, flip, rotate, painting, and black and white conversion. You can adjust exposure, contrast, saturation, color temperature, tint, and brightness. You can mark photos with stickers and word balloon and add titles. You can also share photos via e-mail and Photobucket.
Browsing the web
One of the most underreported features of the Kindle is its web browser. We can hope this will begin to change with the release of the Kindle Fire, which features the fast Silk browser.
E Ink Kindles feature a browser based on the webkit open source browser engine that also underlies the Apple Safari browser. The browser gives you free access to the web whenever the Kindle has a Wi-Fi connection. If you have a 3G Kindle Keyboard, you can browse the web anywhere you have a 3G connection.
While the E Ink Kindle browser is no substitute for a computer-based web browser or the Kindle Fire browser, you can check your e-mail and follow links embedded in reading material. An article mode on the E-Ink Kindles displays only the main text in a web page, making it easier to read. A similar feature called “Reader” is available on the Fire.
Technically the web browser on the E Ink Kindles is considered an experimental feature by Amazon, which means that Amazon can modify or remove it at any time. The fact that Amazon significantly upgraded the browser with the release of the Kindle Keyboard makes it quite unlikely that they will remove this feature.
Keep in mind that the web browser on the E Ink Kindles is basic and that some pages may not load.
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