About the Author
Jason R. Rich (www.JasonRich.com) is the bestselling author of 52 books, covering a wide range of topics. Some of his recently published books include How to Do Everything: Digital Photography (McGraw-Hill, 2011), How to Do Everything: iCloud (McGraw-Hill, 2012), Your iPad 2 at Work (Que, 2011), Using iPhone: iOS 5 Edition (Que, 2012), and iPad and iPhone Tips and Tricks (Que, 2011).
To read more than 60 feature-length how-to articles about the iPhone and iPad, visit www.iOSArticles.com. Jasons work also appears in a wide range of other national magazines, major daily newspaper, and popular websites. You can follow Jason on Twitter (@JasonRich7).
About the Technical Editor
Guy Hart-Davis is the author of How to Do Everything: iPhone 4S, How to Do Everything: Samsung Galaxy Tab, iPhone Geekery, and about 70 other books. His website is at www.ghdbooks.com.
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How to Do Everything: Kindle Fire
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Megg Morin
Editorial Supervisor
Jody McKenzie
Project Manager
Vastavikta Sharma, Cenveo Publisher Services
Acquisitions Coordinator
Stephanie Evans
Technical Editor
Guy Hart-Davis
Copy Editor
Lisa McCoy
Proofreader
Claire Splan
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Claire Splan
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Jeff Weeks
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This book is dedicated to my niece, Natalie Shay Emsley Skehan, who was born on December 6, 2011, as I was putting the finishing touches on the manuscript for this book. Congratulations to Melissa and Rob!
Contents at a Glance
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Megg Morin at McGraw-Hill for inviting me to work on this book. Thanks also to Stephanie Evans, Guy Hart-Davis, Vastavikta Sharma, Claire Splan, Lisa McCoy, and everyone else who contributed their talents and publishing know-how as this book was being created.
I am also grateful for the assistance of Patrick Miltner, the founder and managing editor of Tabletorials.com, for his assistance in capturing the screen shots you see featured in this book. If youre interested in learning more about the technical aspects of your Kindle Fire, Tabetorials.com is worth checking out.
Thanks also to my friends and family for their endless support and encouragement.
The Publisher would like to thank Nicole Nagorsky at Amazon for her help with the cover.
Introduction
Tablets have been around for several years now. However, whats kept them from becoming massively popular has been their price tags, lack of easy accessibility to content, and that the devices have difficult-to-use user interfaces or operating systems. Recently, thats all changed. Apple released the original iPad and later the iPad 2, which made tablets easy to use and made a massive amount of content available, but the price of even the most basic iPad 2 continues to be high.
With the release of the Kindle Fire from Amazon, consumers now have easy access to an inexpensive, easy-to-use tablet that is supported by an incredible amount of content in the form of eBooks, digital editions of newspapers and magazines, apps, music, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, games, and more.
With its built-in, seven-inch touch screen display and Wi-Fi Internet connectivity, the Kindle Fire tablet also offers easy access to the Internet, allowing users to surf the Web, manage multiple e-mail accounts, and access online social networking sites (like Facebook and Twitter) directly from their tablet.
Beyond all of the apps that come preinstalled on the Amazon Kindle Fire, the functionality of this highly portable, handheld device increases dramatically when you begin adding third-party apps acquired from the Amazon App Store. For example, between the preinstalled and optional third-party apps available for the Kindle Fire, you can access, view, edit, and share Microsoft Office files; view PDF files; edit, view, and share digital photos; manage your schedule; maintain a detailed contacts database; enjoy multimedia content; read eBooks and digital publications; listen to music; keep track of personal or work-related expenses; shop online for virtually any product and save money; and play hundreds of exciting, challenging, and fun games.
