The Kindle 3 Home screen displays a list of all of your Kindle content and collections:
- books,
- newspapers,
- magazines,
- blogs,
- personal documents, and
- audiobooks.
It serves as a personal bookshelf for all of your reading material, as well as a starting point to access other Kindle features.
To display the Home screen: Press the Home button near the bottom of your Kindle.
Here’s what you’ll see on the Home screen:
- Device name: The name of your Kindle. You can edit this name on the Settings screen.
- Show options: Choose which types of content you want displayed in Home.
- Sort options: Choose the order you want content displayed in Home.
- Title: The title of the item.
- Author or Date: For books, the author of the item is listed. For periodicals and blogs, the date is listed.
- Unread title: The “new” label indicates the item has never been opened and is less than 24 hours old. Once you open a new document or more than 24 hours has passed since the item arrived on your Kindle, the “new” label is removed.
- Archived Items: Downloadable items stored at Amazon.com not currently on your device.
- Sample title: Indicates the book is a sample. If you like it, you can purchase the full book when viewing the sample.
- Progress indicator: The series of dots below the item shows how long the book is and bold dots show how far you have read in a particular item.
- Audiobook title: The “audio” label indicates the book is an audiobook.
- Pages in Home: Indicates the total number of pages in Home. Use the Next Page or Previous Page button to navigate the pages.
- Periodicals: Select to access older issues of newspapers and magazines.
- Wireless: Indicates 3G usage or Wi-Fi.
- Collections: Sorts content based on categories you create on your Kindle to organize your content.
- Kindle active content: Kindle active content is software that can be downloaded and used on your Kindle device. We’re excited to offer two word games, Shuffled Row and Every Word, for free on Kindle. We’re just getting started and are excited to share more in the coming months.
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