Kindle Touch Instructions in Russian. You can read more about this e-book in the article. The official instructions can always be downloaded from the official Amazon website.
Kindle Touch Instructions in Russian
Chapter 1
Beginning of work
The Kindle Touch manual will introduce you to all the features and characteristics of this e-reader.
If you purchased your Kindle Touch through a registered Amazon.com account, the e-reader will already be “linked” to it. To check this, click the Home button, and look at what Amazon username is displayed in the upper left corner of the Home screen. If it says My Kindle or shows the name of the previous Kindle Touch owner instead of your Amazon account name, then you need to register the book. To learn more about how to register your Kindle Touch, see the " " section later in this chapter.
Using Controls
In order to learn how to read and download audiobooks, newspapers, magazines and books, you need to remember just a few simple steps. Most of your interactions with Kindle Touch will be done through the device's touchscreen.
Below the screen is the Home button. On the bottom there is a headphone input, a charging indicator, a power button and a micro-usb port, which is also used for charging. There are two built-in speakers on the back side.
Home Button: This button takes you back to the Home Page, where you can view a list of downloaded e-books and other files.
Headphone jack: Connect headphones to listen to audiobooks, background music, or text-to-speech text.
Charging indicator light: The indicator glows amber while charging, and green when the battery is fully charged.
Power button: To turn on your Kindle Touch, press the Power button. To put your e-reader into sleep mode, press and release the Power button; A screensaver should appear on the screen. To completely turn off the Kindle Touch, hold down the Power button for 7 seconds until the book screen goes blank. If the Kindle Touch freezes or does not turn on, you can restart the reader by pressing and holding the Power button for 20 seconds.
Speakers: On the back of your Kindle Touch are two speakers for playing your audio content. Connecting headphones automatically turns off the built-in speakers.
Charging port/Micro-USB port: You can use the included USB cable to connect your book to your PC to download content or charge your Kindle Touch. To recharge from the mains, you will need a special charger, which is sold separately.
When the Kindle Touch is charging, a lightning bolt icon appears at the top of the Home screen.
When using an AC charger, your Kindle Touch batteries will be fully charged in less than 4 hours. If you use third-party AC adapters or a USB cable for charging, the charging time for the e-reader batteries can be longer than 4 hours.
If the charging indicator at the bottom of your Kindle Touch does not turn amber, check that the USB cable is fully inserted into the USB port on your computer.
If after doing this, your e-reader still does not charge, try a different USB port or outlet. Please note that some older computers have low-power USB ports that are not suitable for charging.
Using the screen
The Kindle Touch has a touch screen, which is used to perform most operations on the device.
To select a file, simply click on its icon on the screen. For example, if you want to start reading a book, click on its title located on the Home page.
Kindle Touch's EasyReach technology allows you to effortlessly navigate the pages of your favorite books, magazines, and other periodicals. In this case, you can hold the book in one hand. Tapping almost any area of the screen will scroll the page forward, with enough space to make scrolling comfortable for both left and right hands. Clicking on the left side of the display will take you back a page.
You can also turn the pages of the e-book by swiping your finger across the screen. To go forward a page, swipe your finger across the display from right to left; to go back a page, swipe from left to right. To move to the next chapter of a book (or to the next article for a periodical), swipe from the top of the screen; To go back a chapter, swipe from the bottom of the screen. Please note that not all books allow you to swipe to turn pages.
Clicking at the top of the display brings up the Toolbar, which includes the following options:
Back button: Use this button to go back a step.
Kindle Store: Pressing the button will take you to the Kindle Store using a wireless Wi-Fi connection.
Search field: Clicking on this area of the screen automatically shows the virtual keyboard. You can choose different search targets: This Book (search the current book), My Items (search all Kindle Touch catalogs including book titles and authors), Kindle Store (search the online Kindle store), Wikipedia and Dictionary ( lookup in the dictionary). Once you have selected the target of your search, click on the Go button or Return button on the virtual keyboard to display the search results.
Menu Button: This button displays a menu of options. The list of options may vary depending on where the Kindle Touch screen is located. For example, when you are reading a book, the menu displays the options necessary for reading: enabling the text-to-speach function, viewing notes, book descriptions, leaving bookmarks.
A second toolbar appears at the bottom of the display while reading a book:
Button Aa: Clicking this button will open a window with settings for the book text, including its size, type, line spacing and number of words per line.
Go To Button: The options shown after you press this button vary depending on what the Kindle Touch display is currently showing. However, in most cases they include Beginning, Table of Contents, Location, and Page.
X-Ray Button: The Kindle Touch's X-Ray feature allows you to explore the structure of a book. For example, one click will allow you to see exactly where specific words, symbols or themes appear in the book. In addition, you can see a more detailed description of a particular word using Wikipedia or Shelfari (X-Ray is not supported by all Kindle books).
Sync: If X-Ray is not available for a book, the Sync button will indicate this. To sync your current book with your other devices or the Kindle app, click the Sync button.
Periodicals Toolbar
When you read a periodical, the Toolbar adjusts for these purposes.
Home button for periodicals: Click to return to the list of sections.
Sections and Articles button: Click to go to a hierarchical display of a list of sections and articles of a newspaper or magazine.
Status indicators
At the top of the screen on the Home page, indicators are displayed that show the status of available services for your Kindle Touch. To see these indicators while reading documents, simply click at the top of the display - this will bring up the Toolbar.
Wireless LED Statuses
Whispernet delivers content to your Kindle wirelessly. Your Kindle can connect to Whispernet via a Wi-Fi connection or, on some models, a 3G connection (read more about this in the article). The more full the Wi-Fi and 3G connection indicators are, the stronger and more stable the wireless connection.
Kindle connects to Whispernet using Wi-Fi.
Kindle connects to Whispernet using 3G connection. In addition, you can see EDGE and GPRS network icons next to the signal strength panel.
Battery indicator
The battery charge indicator shows how fully charged your Kindle's battery is. Please note that a weak Wi-Fi signal can lead to excessive energy consumption.
Operation indicator
This indicator appears in the top left corner of the Kindle Touch screen when the device is busy downloading new content, checking for updates, searching, opening large PDF files, or loading web pages.
Kindle Touch Settings
Kindle Touch settings concern connecting the device to Wi-Fi and 3G networks, as well as registering (“linking”) it to an Amazon account.
Network connections: Books, magazines, and other content are delivered to your Kindle Touch using built-in wireless connectivity. If your Kindle Touch supports both Wi-Fi and 3G connections, try to use a faster Wi-Fi connection to download content. You can connect to Wi-Fi networks at home or through hotspots around the world. To see available Wi-Fi connections, go to the “Home Page” and click on the “Menu” button, and then select “Settings”. In the settings window, click on Wi-Fi Networks and then select the connection you need. If you see a lock icon next to the network icon, you will need a password to access the connection.
Kindle models with 3G support use the same data transfer technology as cell phones, so the quality of the 3G signal will directly depend on the cellular coverage area. By default, Kindle 3G is automatically connected to a 3G network. If the 3G signal is insufficient, Kindle can switch to slower GPRS and EDGE connections. Your Kindle automatically turns off its 3G connection if you are currently using a Wi-Fi connection. If you disconnect from a Wi-Fi network, or if coverage becomes weak, the Kindle will automatically switch back to a 3G connection.
To preserve battery life for as long as possible, try to only use your wireless network when you need to connect to Whispernet. If you turn off the wireless connection, both Wi-Fi and 3G connections stop working.
To register your Kindle Touch, click on the Menu button located on the Home page, then select Settings from the list of menus shown. Click Registration and select the appropriate option to begin the registration process.
Amazon is different from other e-book makers because it constantly expands the capabilities of already released models with new software that improves the functionality of the Kindle.
It is known that any Kindle model has a Wi-Fi or 3G module. And they will also be on new reader models. Users often wonder why they are needed on e-readers? Obviously, browsing websites is very inconvenient - the screen refreshes slowly and flickers, annoying the user. This is not why the wireless module is present on e-readers. About six months ago, all Kindle owners had the opportunity to download books wirelessly over Wi-Fi or 3G using the Send to Kindle utility.
This means that you no longer need to connect to a computer to download files. Very few owners of American e-readers in Russia learned about this opportunity. This is not about sending books to the assigned Kindle e-mail during registration - this method is more complicated and is not suitable for everyone. The Send to Kindle utility allows you to transfer files to your Kindle over Wi-Fi or 3G without connecting the reader to your computer via cable. This is the fastest way to download books to your Kindle today. Plus, no other manufacturer offers anything like it.
We will illustrate the entire algorithm for using these utilities with clear screenshots to convince you that there is nothing complicated in wirelessly downloading books and articles to your Kindle. It's fast and convenient.
As you know, Kindle supports MOBI, TXT and PDF formats. But using this wireless download, you can additionally upload books in RTF, DOC and DOCX formats, since Amazon has an online converter that converts files of these formats into MOBI. Thus, using wireless downloading, you get the opportunity to read books on your Kindle in six formats! Not a bad functionality extension, right?
After installing the utility, you can start downloading files. Select the files in the desired formats to download. With them selected, click the right mouse button. You will see a new "Send to Kindle" option in the right-click context menu. Feel free to click on it. Your computer, of course, must be connected to the Internet. Sending books from your computer may take a few minutes.
To receive sent books, you just need to connect your Kindle to Wi-Fi (and if you have a reader with 3G support, then just wait for the download). In the Main Menu of the reader you will see the received books.
Another important advantage of wireless downloading is that books sent to Kindle via Send To Kindle are saved on Amazon in your account (section "Your Kindle Library"). You can read books on your Kindle and delete them from the reader, but they will still remain in the library in your account. If you need them again, you can simply download them back from your account through the “Document Archive” function in the main menu of your .
Reading Articles from the Internet on Kindle
In addition, Amazon introduced a version of the same Send To Kindle utility for Chrome and Firefox browsers, which converts text on a web page into the Kindle MOBI format and sends it to the reader. Moreover, this process occurs within just a couple of minutes. Very soon Amazon promises to release Send To Kindle for the Safari browser.
The situation when you need Send To Kindle looks like this: You need to read an article on a website, but it is large in volume, and you have time to read it right now. But you have a Kindle on which you can read the article when you have time. For example, in transport on the way to work or school.
Now you have the opportunity to convert any web page into an e-book and send it to Kindle for later comfortable reading.
Find an article online that you would like to read on your Kindle. For example, let's take an article on Lenta.ru. Click on the mentioned icon and select one of the suggested options: “Send the entire article,” “Preview the article,” or “Send only the selected text.” In any case, you won’t have to make more than two mouse clicks to send an article or a fragment of text!
After turning it on, it prompts you to select a language, and then select a WiFi network. When the list of available networks appears, close the list of networks with a cross in the upper right corner, then click on Complete Kindle setup later in the lower right corner, then click Set Up Later to postpone registration.
Registration on Amazon:(optional) Register on Amazon.com To continue registering already on the book, Select the “Settings” item 3 bars in the upper right corner and then select the “Registration” item and in the first menu that appears Enter your Amazon account name and password.
Virtual zone menu:
Disable WiFi:
Add a book:
Download to your computer in MOBI format, connect your Kindle PW to your computer, add the downloaded file to Drive:/Kindle/documents
Delete a book:
Hold your finger on the book title in the list of books and click Delete This Documents. Or delete it from the Drive:/Kindle/documents folder by connecting it to your computer.
Get to the list of books:
View of the list of books in the initial Menu:
Press at the top of the screen in book list mode (previously press House), then press Options (3 bars in the upper right corner) then List View - list, and Cover View - Covers
Go to...
Go To -> Beginning go to Home (reading)
Go To -> Cover go to Cover (Cover before chapter titles)
Go To -> Page or Location go to virtual page number
Go To -> End go to the end
There is also a chapter transition.
Footnotes in the book: Tapping on a footnote sends you to the location of the note, if it is at the end of the book, then to the end of the book.
Tapping at the top of the screen brings up a menu that has a Back button (back arrow). Tapping on it returns you to the location of the footnote on the note.
Selecting font size:
Landscape mode:
Bookmarks:
Bookmarks are placed automatically in all books. You can also set it arbitrarily, In reading mode, Click at the top of the screen, then click on Options (3 bars in the upper right corner) then Add Bookmark/ View bookmarks for this book, in reading mode there View Notes & Marks
Turning on the backlight:
Setting the time(may work after registration) :
Press at the top of the screen in book list mode (first press House), then press Options (3 bars in the upper right corner) then Settings - Device Options - Device Time
Browser:
Press at the top of the screen in book list mode (first press House), then press Options (3 bars in the upper right corner) then Experimental Browser
In the browser: Bookmark this Page - add a bookmark. Bookmarks - bookmarks.
In case of freezing and glitches: hold the OFF button for 30 seconds (reboot)
The Amazon reader supports many file formats, including DOC, RTF, TXT, HTML, as well as the most convenient MOBI and PDF. Unfortunately, Kindle will not be able to read the common ePub and FB2 without preliminary conversion.
There are several ways to download books, both using a computer and without.
The simplest and most obvious option. No Amazon account registration or Internet required. All you need is a computer and a cable.
- Connect your Kindle to your computer using a cable.
- Open File Explorer and find the mounted removable drive called Kindle.
- Go to the documents folder and drag the books you need into it.
- Remove the device.
Like the previous method, this one does not require registration. And thanks to the capabilities of Caliber, you can immediately convert books from incompatible formats.
- Download the program from the link and install it on your Mac or PC.
- Connect your Kindle to your computer using a cable and wait for Caliber to detect it.
- If books have not yet been imported into the library, add them by simply dragging them into the program window.
- Select the required items and click the “Send to Device” button.
3. Send via Send to Kindle
Another option for sending books from your computer. You no longer need to connect your Kindle with a cable; content is synchronized via Wi-Fi. You will need to register an account.
- Download the application from the link and install it.
- Launch and log into your account.
- Drag the book into the application window and select the devices to which it should be downloaded.
- Click the Send button and wait for the download to complete.
- Make sure Wi-Fi is turned on on your Kindle, and within a few seconds the book will appear on the device.
Another option is to download via the Internet. Use of a computer is optional. Any device will do, but you will need a registered Amazon account.
1. Sign in to your Amazon account by opening this link in your browser.
2. Go to the Devices tab and find the desired device in the list.
3. Open detailed information and copy your Kindle's personal email.
4. Go to the Preferences tab and open the Personal Document Settings section.
5. Scroll to the very bottom and, by clicking on the Add a new approved e-mail address button, add trusted addresses from which you are going to send books to Kindle.
6. Send a letter with the required file as an attachment to your Kindle email, which you learned in the third step.
7. A couple of minutes after Wi-Fi is turned on on the reader, the book will appear in the library.
The most autonomous option without the use of additional devices, applications and account. Books are downloaded directly from the built-in browser.
1. After purchase, turn on the button at the bottom at the end, the green light will light up, after the first loading of the indicator, select English, wait for the second loading of the indicator, click on the offer to register Home(house, rightmost button at the bottom) Disable WiFi otherwise the reader will quickly discharge: button Menu(right joystick button): Turn Wireless Off in version 4.01 or go to Settings and Airplane Mode in version 4.10, the inscription turn off and the Airplane icon means WiFi is turned off.
The reader version can be seen at the bottom of the screen if you click the House button, the Settings button, and go to Settings
2. Download what you like in the format MOBI, connect the book via USB and drop the downloaded file into the folder Disk:/ Kindle/ documents. Move to the next ten books list using the paging buttons: forward right, back left.
Bookmarks are placed automatically. You can also place a bookmark anywhere in the book and return to it later. To do this, in reading mode, press the Options button, then Add a bookmark: Add Bookmark. Go to the bookmark: View Notes & Marks/Select the desired one with the joystick/Press the central button of the joystick and select go to in the lower right corner. Delete a bookmark: select delete. To get to the list of books, click House(rightmost button)
Selecting font size, right joystick button, then Change Font Size. Lists of books, when there are many of them, are leafed through 10 pieces at a time using the side paging keys. Charge the book until a green light appears near the power button. You can charge whenever you want; you don’t have to wait until it’s completely discharged.
Deleting a book or links: Stand on a book or bookmark, joystick to the left ---> Delete. Or, by connecting to a computer, delete what you don’t need from the folder: ... /Kindle/ documents.
WITHsorting the list of books by last read or added, go to the top line in the list of books, Joystick right or left, Showing All - By Most Recent First = sorting books by last added or read (works with intermittent WiFi connection), Title = sorting by Title,. Showing All - Author = sorting by authors, Collections = sorting by Collections (available only after registration)
Another sorting option, if there are a lot of books, register the reader http://kindle.spb.ru/problem and Russify
make a folder I'm reading and put there what you are reading at the moment.
Selection: Place the cursor where you want to start the selection. Press the center button of the 5-way joystick and select “start highlight.” Highlight the required text with the cursor and press the center button again and select “end highlight”. Selected text is underlined. This will also add a file to the main screen called My Clippings.
Navigating through the book in the options without leaving the book you are reading:
Go To -> Cover go to Cover
Go To -> Beginning go to Home
Go To -> Table of Contents go to Table of Contents
Go To -> End go to end
Go To -> Page or Location going to the virtual page number or the percentage of what was read, you also need to use the keyboard to enter numbers.
Scroll through chapters: joystick to the right.
Add books to the Collection:(registration required) stand on the book in the menu, joystick to the right, Add to Collection, Create a new collection or add to an existing one. Or stand on the name of the Collection, joystick to the right, Add remove item, mark all the books you want to add (you can sort by author or recent at the top)
Reset to factory settings, first copy the books to your computer: Home -> Menu -> Settings-> Menu -> Reset to Factory Defaults
Pages flickering. Blinking is a technology of electronic books; on Kindle 4, pages are updated every 5 turns, usually people get used to it after a week. Light traces of letters from the previous page may also be visible, since every 5th page is updated, if you want every page to be updated, try setting: Menu/Setting/2 page/Page refresh/turn-off Each page will be updated, but it will also blink more often. Fast update may be disabled in extreme heat, cold, and PDF
Cullet. Since the reader has a glass screen, it must be treated like thin, fragile glass. It is not advisable to put it on the sofa, press it in transport, throw it on the sofa, etc. An example of a glass breaker, the reader was pressed in a bag in transport (the case did not help):
Non-warranty cases: Cullet. Unsuccessful installation of hacks and cracks.
To create collections Add to Collection you need to register on Amazon (see below) but then there will be a small banner at the bottom in the list of books, when reading there is no banner. Collections are displayed when displayed in the very top line: Sort by Collections (Collections) You don’t have to register, but simply add no more than 200 books, for example, so as not to get confused (20 pages of 10 Books each). Also Without connecting registration, you cannot set the time.
Time is shown on the reader when you press the Menu button in reading mode. In order for the time setting to appear in the settings, you need to register the reader.
To make it easier/faster to scatter a bunch of books into collections if the reader is registered:
1. Create a collection or several collections (empty or from one book).
2. Then from the home screen, select any collection and press the joystick to the right.
3. Select the Add/Remove Items item, a multi-screen list of all books uploaded to the Kindle appears - select and add (central joystick button) the necessary books to the collection one by one.
Registration (optional) Register on Amazon.com To continue registering already on the book, Select the “Settings” item and then select the “register” item and in the menu that appears, enter the name of your Amazon account and password for it.
Turn Wireless Off(On) Enable, disable WiFi In version 4.10 Settings -> Airplane Mode -> turn off
Shop in Kindle Store Go to the store
Change Font Size change the font size (MOBI format only), font style (Typeface), line spacing (Line Spacing), text page (margin) width (Words per Line), screen rotation (Screen Rotation).
Add Bookmark add bookmark
View Archived Items- viewing an archive of documents/books deleted from the device, but saved in the Amazon clouds.
Search- search by device (my items), content store (kindle store), Internet (google), dictionary (dictionary/wikipedia), follow a link (go to web). You need to call the on-screen keyboard using the “Keyboard” key.
Create New Collection- creating a new collection for documents/books. You need to call the on-screen keyboard using the “Keyboard” key.
Sync & Check for Items- synchronization and checking (availability of new) content, if necessary. - view the content download process. It is advisable to check before turning off Wi-Fi.
Settings- settings: registration (Registration), device name (Device Name), wireless connection (Wi-Fi Networks), device information (Device Info), firmware version (Version), interface language (Device Language), device address (Send- to-Kindle E-mail), Device Password, Device Time, Dictionaries, Social Networks, Popular Highlights, Public Notes, Annotation Reservation (Annotations Backup), page refresh mode (Page Reafresh), personal information (Personal Info).
Experimental- experimental applications: browser (on Kindle Touch player, reading aloud).
Screen Rotation(not on Kindle Touch) - rotate the screen.
Go to…(for MOBI) - transition (by document/book): to table of content, to beginning, to page, to cover, to end, to location .
Sync to Furthest Page Read(for MOBI) - synchronization of the last page read.
Book Description(for MOBI) - annotation of the document/book.
Search This Document(for MOBI) - search by document/book.
Add Bookmark(for MOBI) - add a bookmark.
View Notes & Marks(for MOBI) - view notes and quotes.
View Popular Highlights(for MOBI) - view popular quotes.
Zoom & Contrast(for PDF) - zoom, 5 levels of contrast (Contrast), screen rotation (Screen Rotation).
Place Cursor in Page(for PDF) - mode of moving the cursor across the page.
Zoom In(for Web) - zoom in/zoom in.
Zoom Out(for Web) - zoom out/zoom out.
Enter URL(for Web) - enter the site address. You need to call the on-screen keyboard using the “Keyboard” key.
Article Mode / Web Mode(for Web) - switching the page display mode.
Bookmarks(for Web) - bookmarks.
Bookmark This Page(for Web) - add the current page to bookmarks.
History(for Web) - history of open pages.
Browser Settings(for Web) - browser settings: clear history (Clear History), clear cookies (Clear Cookies), disable scripts (Disable Javascript), disable images (Disable Images).
