Browsing and Downloading

Finding something to watch on your Fire is probably easier than navigating that 500-channel gridlock most TVs confront you with. On the Fire’s home screen, tap the Video Library and, if it’s not yet selected, head into the upper-right Store link. Here you see the three big buckets described at the top of the chapter—Prime Instant Videos, Movies, TV Shows. (Can you tell which one Amazon’s pushing?)

Each of these buckets gets its own horizontally swipeable row and a “View all” link for deep dives. On the “View all” screen, the listings are chunked into categories to make it easier to find the type of thing you feel like watching. If you’re in TV-land, for example, you get top-level sections for Popular TV Shows, Latest TV Episodes, Editor’s Picks, All Genres, and so on. The choices here vary based on whether you’re looking at movies or TV shows. Most of these sections are self-explanatory, but four in particular are worth paying a regular visit to: