This video tutorial takes about eight minutes to show you some tips for easy navigation of the Kindle Paperwhite’s touch screen. I had new users in mind when I prepared this, emphasizing the different actions that result from a tap or a tap-and-hold, as well as how to highlight and how to make a screenshot. If you have other tips to help new users get the most out of this latest and greatest E Ink Kindle, please leave them in Comments.
I want to thank Chris Kraft of Splash Media for suggesting that I do this video. Sorry it took so long to get it done!
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Can you begin a highlight on one page and carry it over to the next? I can do this on my K3 (keyboard) but not on my Fire.
Posted 29 Oct 2012 at 9:36 am ¶Yes, and I’m sorry I did not mention that in the video. You start the highlight on one page and move your finger (or stylus) to the very bottom-right corner of the screen. Pause for a moment, and the page will advance to the next page, which will all be highlighted. You can keep going to another page, or move your finger back up the second page to where you want the multi-page highlight to end. Thanks for asking the question!
Posted 29 Oct 2012 at 11:34 am ¶Thanks for the quick answer; it was one of the only things to give me apprehension as I wait for my PW.
Posted 29 Oct 2012 at 12:26 pm ¶Len, thanks for the video. I pre-ordered a Paperwhite for my wife to replace her damaged Kindle Keyboard. She was having issues getting used to the touch screen, but now she feels very comfortable. I, however, am just plain jealous, as I’m coveting her Paperwhite’s screen while I read on my year old basic Kindle.
Posted 30 Oct 2012 at 11:29 pm ¶Chris, I can understand your covetous feelings toward your wife’s Paperwhite. If it helps you justify buying one for yourself, you could donate your trusty basic Kindle to E-Books for Troops, and we will make sure it has a valued second life!
Posted 30 Oct 2012 at 11:33 pm ¶I’ve been loving my Paperwhite. I like the ability to quickly switch the reading progress indicator in the bottom left corner by tapping that area. I also LOVE the ‘X mins left in chapter/book’ feature. One question/minor irritation I have is that I can’t see anywhere how many locations are in the book I’m reading. On previous kindles it says Loc 5 of 2500, or whatever. Now, as far as I can tell, it just says Loc 400. It does tell me % complete but that would require me to do math while I’m reading. Is there something I’m missing? Over the past few years I’ve trained my mind to think more in terms of locations and I can get a better sense of how long a book is by number of locations, more so than page numbers.
Posted 02 Nov 2012 at 3:58 pm ¶Jason, I agree it’s not as convenient but here is a way to see the total locations in a book when you have the book open: Tap at the top to reveal the menu bars, tap on “Go To,” tap on “Page or Location.” There you will see “Enter a location ( 1 – X) with X the total locations in the book. It’s a lot more taps than earlier versions.
Posted 02 Nov 2012 at 4:05 pm ¶Thanks, Len. That helps…not ideal but at least it’s there. I’d like it if they’d even put it in the product details section of the book description.
Posted 02 Nov 2012 at 4:21 pm ¶That would make a lot of sense.
Posted 02 Nov 2012 at 4:23 pm ¶If I tap once at the top of the page of the book I am reading at the bottom left it says
Loc 1543 of 3990
I see percentage read in the bottom right, and minutes left in chapter and book.
Posted 02 Nov 2012 at 6:14 pm ¶Do you know of a way to move by chapters on the Paperwhite? It was an ascending or descending (depending on moving forward or back) swipe on the Touch but seems to have disappeared from the Paperwhite. Thanks.
Posted 26 Dec 2012 at 11:43 am ¶Jim, I believe they dropped that capability in moving from the Touch to the Paperwhite. One thing I noticed is that my wife Darlene often skipped to the next chapter without knowing what happened, so that may have been a problem they wanted to avoid.
Posted 26 Dec 2012 at 1:45 pm ¶Gosh, Len, to me that really makes the Paperwhite a lot less useful for scholarly study where you need to jump from chapter to chapter. It’s fine, I guess, if you’re reading a novel, but for other things, not so much.
Posted 31 Jan 2013 at 12:00 am ¶I see your point, Shane. A well constructed Table of Contents with live links might make up for the loss of chapter jumps with up or down swipes.
Posted 31 Jan 2013 at 12:11 am ¶Just got a new paperwhite – I am a bit confused about the collections. Had my previous kindle set with collections and all the books were filed in one or another. I have collections set up on my paperwhite but I can’t get rid of the duplicate titles on my homepage.
Also , can i set it up so that the collections are always listed at the top of the home page rather than the most recent thing I looked at?
Thanks
Posted 06 Feb 2013 at 3:04 pm ¶Jackie, try setting the sort by pull down on home page to Collections. That should solve both problems.
Posted 08 Feb 2013 at 12:43 pm ¶Thanks soooo much from technophobe new to kindle from the UK! Great tips and look forward now to getting started. x
Posted 03 Apr 2013 at 1:34 pm ¶I just purchased a new paperwhite and it seems that i jump many pages without realizing how? Any suggestions? I’m tapping on the right side of the page but sometimes it just goes…
Posted 05 Apr 2013 at 6:45 pm ¶thanks.
Jude, the tap zone on the Paperwhite is larger than just the right side of the page, so you may inadvertently be advancing the page when your finger or stylus touches what feels more like the center of the page.
Posted 05 Apr 2013 at 7:02 pm ¶I am trying to figure out how to properly use my kindle paperwhite. how do i get back to the homescreen if i am reading a book? i have tried tapping various points on the screen and turning it off and nothing has worked. help please
Posted 23 Apr 2013 at 11:29 am ¶Tap once near the top of the screen. This will bring up a controls bar with the icon of a house at the left. Tap on the house to go back to the home screen.
Posted 23 Apr 2013 at 2:33 pm ¶On my kindle when I want to go to Bible Book List in Bible Gateway, my finger is too big and sometimes hits the wrong chapter they are in such small type. Is there any thing I can buy similar to a pencil that I can press a very small area? Would appreciate an answer. Thank You.
Posted 25 Apr 2013 at 3:06 pm ¶Althea, a stylus might help. Here is one that has three sizes of point, so the smallest one might work for you. It’s $14.99 on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HJGPVO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008HJGPVO&linkCode=as2&tag=httpthekicom-20
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