17. Manage your Kindle Fire

Your Kindle Fire doesn’t require much oversight. It does a good job of serving up content and apps and letting you surf the Web. Sometimes, though, you might need to delve into the settings or even reset to factory defaults.

Given the cloud-connected nature of your Kindle Fire, you can also change some settings on Amazon.com without ever using the Fire. This is especially handy if your Fire is lost or stolen because you can deregister the device via the website to make sure the thieves don’t go on a spending spree.

Customizing device settings

The Fire has a dizzying array of settings that you can tweak. Most of them are app specific; they impact ...

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