You’d be right most of the time, but the Kindle gives us an ability that we don’t have with print books: That’s easy, you might say… both go at the beginning if the book. We Insert these anchors in Ms Word with Menu|Insert|Bookmark.īut, before we start, let’s talk for a moment about where we want to put our Table of Contents and our Beginning. It doesn’t, until we insert anchors in the text to tell the Kindle where to find the Table of Contents and the Beginning of the file. These are navigation points that enable the Kindle to jump to the “Table of Contents" or to the "Beginning" of your book, when those items are selected by the Kindle user.īut, you may ask… how does the Kindle know where to jump? Several items are displayed, but right now, we are interested in only these two: We are interested in what is displayed on the Kindle screen if the user presses Menu while he is reading a book. Push up (Menu) displays a Menu on the Kindle screen, while push down (Back), takes the user back to his previous activity.Įxactly “what” is displayed on the screen when the user pushes Menu, depends on exactly what he was doing before he pushed the Menu button. Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation) To understand this requirement, it is necessary to think, for a moment, about the design and features of the Kindle reading device.īelow is an ad for the Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation)Īs you can see by the illustration, a small Menu Button is at the lower left edge of the device. In the Task, we will insert Anchors for Table of Contents (TOC) and Beginning (start) of file in MS WordĪmazon requires that Kindle books contain anchors to allow the user to jump to the start of the file and/or to the Table of Contents.
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