Amazon Fire: How to Bookmark Book Pages

Don’t get lost when reading that favorite novel. Learn how to bookmark pages of your books on the Amazon Fire tablets.

The popularity of eBooks is gaining more and more popularity, especially among the young generation. Apart from the devices like Kindle eBook readers, Amazon Fire tablets are also used for reading eBooks. These electronic devices provide features like bookmarking to offer readers an experience similar to reading the hard copy of a book.

Bookmarking book pages is an effective technique to enhance your reading experience. Using bookmarks, you can mark your progress and make your reading experience more enjoyable. It also helps you to keep track of important details and refer to specific passages in the future.

In case you’re wondering how to bookmark book pages on Amazon Fire tablets, continue reading. I’ll discuss the methods to bookmark pages on Fire HD versions in the following sections. But first, look at the reasons why you might want to bookmark pages on your books.

Reasons Behind Bookmarking Book Pages on Amazon Fire

As we all know, bookmarks make it easy to navigate through the book and find important information. These are the main reasons people like to bookmark their book pages on devices like Fire HD and Amazon Fire tablet.

Mark Where You Left: The primary purpose of a bookmark is to mark the page where you have left the book. With Amazon Fire bookmarks also, you can mark your progress in a book and pick up where you left off when you choose to read the book again.

Without bookmarking your progress, you’ll have to flip through the pages to find where you left off, which is frustrating and time-consuming at the same time.

Highlight Important Sections: If you’re reading a novel with a complex storyline, bookmarks let you keep track of important details or references. For example, if you’re reading Jane Eyre, you might use a bookmark to mark the chapters that contain important information or subplot.

Bookmarking is also helpful when you are reading multiple books on Amazon Fire for a semester. Before the exam, you only need to revise the bookmarked pages or chapters.

Use as Reference for Discussion: If you’re reading a book that you need to discuss with others, bookmarks can be useful for sharing chapters or discussing specific parts of the book. Bookmark to highlight a page that you want to share or discuss with others or to remind yourself of a point you want to bring up during a discussion.

How to Bookmark Book Pages on Amazon Fire

If you’re using any of the latest versions of Fire HD 10 or Amazon Fire tablet, here is what you need to do to bookmark important pages of a book:

• Open the Kindle app on your Amazon Fire device.
• Tap on the book that you want to read and bookmark.
• While you’re on the page that you want to bookmark, tap once on the screen.
• If a single tap takes you to another page, you need to double-tap on the screen.
• A list of options will appear on the top menu bar.
• There will be a bookmark icon in the right corner. Tap on it.

• If your Kindle is in light mode, tapping will turn the icon black. For dark mode, it’ll turn white.
• The page will have a blue bookmark icon in its top-right corner.
• That’s it, the page has been bookmarked successfully.

How to Access All Bookmarks on Kindle App on Fire HD

After bookmarking several pages of your favorite book, you might want to access all the bookmarks together. For that, you need to follow these steps:

• Open the book and tap on the margin of any page.
• It’ll make the menu options visible on the screen.
• Tap on the My Notebook icon that looks like a book page.
• All the bookmarks and highlighted sections will appear.

• Scroll down to tap on the Bookmarks option to open all the bookmarked pages.
• For each bookmark, it’ll also display the page number for your convenience.
• Double-tap on any bookmark that you want to open, and it’ll open immediately.
• Thus, you can seamlessly access any bookmarked page of a book from this list.

How to Delete Bookmark on Amazon Fire Tablet

If you have accidentally bookmarked a page or don’t want to keep a bookmark anymore, you can also delete the bookmark in easy steps:

• First, go to the bookmarked page from which you want to delete or remove the bookmark.
• Tap on the screen to get the top menu containing the bookmark option.
• Tap on the highlighted bookmark icon to remove the bookmark from the page.
• Thus, the bookmark icon will return to its original color.
• Also, the blue bookmark icon from the page will also go away.
• Now, that page isn’t bookmarked anymore.

How to Bookmark PDF Book Pages on Fire HD

Now, you can open and read PDF files on your Amazon Fire tablet. You can either email the PDF file to your Kindle email address on transfer the PDF file to your Fire tablet from a computer using a USB cable.

Next, you need to go to the Library section of the Kindle app and select the All tab from the top. All books on your device, including the imported PDF files, will be visible at this point. Tap on the PDF file you want to open and follow the steps mentioned above to bookmark any page of that PDF file.

To delete a bookmark of a PDF file and view all PDF bookmarks on Amazon Fire, you need to follow the methods mentioned earlier in this article.

How to Manage Bookmarks on Old Fire Kindle Devices

Adding a Bookmark

1. While reading a book, tap the screen once so that the top and bottom frames appear on your tablet screen.
2. You’ll see a bookmark icon also appear in the upper-right corner of the page.
   
3. Tap the bookmark icon, and it will change color. The page is officially bookmarked.

Accessing Saved Bookmarks on HD and HDX Models

1. While reading a book, tap the center of the screen.
2. Select Bookmarks or the bookmark icon at the top of the screen.
3. The list of bookmarks will appear on your Kindle app.
   

Accessing Saved Bookmarks on Fire 1 Models

1. While reading a book, tap center the screen once to bring up the menu bars, then tap the Menu icon at the bottom of the screen.
2. Your list of bookmarks will be in the My Notes & Marks section. Tap on any bookmark to be taken to that page.

Deleting Bookmarks on Old Fire Tablet Devices

1. Access your saved bookmarks using the steps mentioned in the above section.
2. Tap and hold the bookmark you wish to delete until a menu appears, then tap Delete.

Conclusion

Bookmarking is a convenient and practical method to stay organized. While reading a book on devices like Amazon Fire, you can use the bookmark feature to mark the last read page or the most important pages.

In this guide, I’ve included the best methods to bookmark book pages on different versions of Amazon Fire tablet and Fire HD. If you have any questions or want to share your experience, write that in the comment section.

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