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CHAPTER 3
Reading on Kindle
Kindle retains the best qualities of printed books, but adds many features that are
available only through digital technologies such as word look up, changeable text size,
and clippings. This chapter explains more about Kindle's reading features.
3.1 Types of Content
There are many types of reading material available for your Kindle such as books,
audiobooks, newspapers, magazines, and blogs. If you want to begin purchasing and
downloading reading material, you can learn more in Chapter 5. You can also purchase
audiobooks from Audible.com and even have Amazon convert and deliver personal
documents to your Kindle. The different types of supported content are described
below.
Books
Thousands of books - both popular and hard-to-find - are available in the Kindle Store.
Once you buy a book, it usually arrives wirelessly in under a minute. Because you can't
always judge a book by its cover, you can download and read a sample of most Kindle
books for free. If you like it, simply buy it from within the sample and continue reading.
You can learn more about this feature in Chapter 5.
Newspapers
The Kindle Store offers a selection of U.S. and international newspapers. Subscriptions
are delivered wirelessly to your Kindle overnight so that the latest edition can arrive on
your device every morning, and every newspaper subscription starts with a free trial.
