5 secret Kindle app tips your e-reader cannot do

E-readers modified the lives of bookworms in all places after they began gaining traction within the early 2000s. All of a sudden, you can take as many Vince Flynn novels with you anyplace you went, and nonetheless have (virtually) limitless area to dabble in all of the genres you wished. At a espresso store and get the itch for LOTR fantasy in the course of a friends-to-lovers rom-com? No extra simply coping with it till you bought dwelling to modify up the vibe.

Amazon’s well-known Kindle fashions have develop into synonymous with the time period ‘e-reader,’ and the retail large has executed an admirable job of getting digital books into readers’ arms, even in the event you do not agree with all of its actions. It did not cease at its single-use gadgets, both — Amazon launched a free Kindle app in 2009 for customers to learn their downloaded books on their smartphones or tablets, regardless in the event you had one in all its e-readers or not.

The Kindle App syncs along with your Amazon account and offers you entry to all of the e-books bought by means of it, precisely like your Kindle e-reader. The thought is identical — limitless studying irrespective of the place you go. Should you overlook your machine on the morning prepare however cannot bear the cliffhanger from the night time earlier than, it is nice in a pinch to not miss out on any chapters. However, there are a number of secret options solely accessible on the Kindle App that your e-reader can solely dream of. Listed below are my six favorites.

1

Change the web page shade

Not simply temperature or darkish mode

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On my Kindle Paperwhite, I can modify the web page to be in Darkish mode, Mild mode, and even the heat of the web page to be simpler on my eyes. Nonetheless, these are my solely choices if I am studying on the e-reader.

Should you’re studying on the Kindle App, you have got extra choices: white, yellow, mint inexperienced, and black. The mint inexperienced shade is especially fairly, and adjustments it up in the event you’re losing interest with the normal look. To vary the web page shade, observe these steps:

1. Open a guide you are studying on the Kindle App.
2. Faucet the highest of the web page to carry up menus.
3. Faucet the Aa setting within the higher right-hand nook.
4. Choose the Structure tab.
5. Select between white, yellow, mint inexperienced, and black below Web page Shade.

The nice type of scrolling

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Should you’re the sort to get intimidated by thick books with lengthy chapters, this app-only characteristic is true up your alley. The Kindle App has a setting to rid your self of pages (and thus web page turning) solely by turning complete chapters into one lengthy web page that you simply scroll by means of slightly than click on by means of.

Here is the way to activate steady scrolling:

1. Open a guide you are studying on the Kindle App.
2. Faucet the highest of the web page to carry up menus.
3. Faucet the Aa setting within the higher right-hand nook.
4. Choose the Structure tab.
5. Toggle on Steady Scrolling.

It is a acquainted means of studying, as virtually all main social media platforms use this group model for his or her timelines. It is also acquainted in the event you ever frolicked looking infamous fanfiction web sites, like AO3 or Wattpad.

3

Studying ruler

Sustain the tempo by maintaining your home

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The Studying Ruler creates a colourful overlay bar that you may drag up and down the web page to maintain observe of which line you are studying. It helps you keep targeted on that a part of the web page and choose up the place you left off in case your consideration is taken away for a number of moments (or minutes).

This characteristic is a distracted reader’s greatest good friend. Whether or not it is bodily books or your e-reader’s display screen, it is simple to lose your home whenever you’re studying. I bumped into this challenge virtually every single day after I was in school — significantly throughout the semesters I used to be pre-med and received misplaced on these teeny tiny strains in my biology textbooks. If I had the Studying Ruler, it would’ve saved me on observe with the advantageous print (I might’ve been Dr. Fogarty at this level).

As a substitute, right here I’m in journalism to let you know the way to get that studying ruler in your Kindle App:

1. Open your Kindle App and choose a guide you wish to learn.
2. Faucet the highest of the web page to carry up menus.
3. Faucet the Aa setting within the higher right-hand nook.
4. Choose the Extra tab.
5. Faucet Studying Ruler, then toggle it on.
6. Choose the colour, transparency, measurement, and elegance of ruler you favor.

As for model, I like that you may go for the ruler to focus on the textual content you are studying or block out the textual content you are not. Generally my eyes can not help however leap to the underside of a web page to spoil an upcoming cliffhanger.

4

Studying Challenges

For knowledge nerds like me

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Beforehand referred to as Studying Insights, Studying Challenges is a piece of the Kindle App devoted to exhibiting off data just like the books you have learn this yr and particular studying achievements. It is also a spot the place you may set a aim for what number of books you’d wish to learn in a selected yr.

I like this characteristic to look again on the yr and see all of the titles below my belt. It is also enjoyable to ‘unlock’ the completely different bookmarks that come whenever you fulfill an achievement.

Here is the way to entry Studying Challenges:

1. Open your Kindle App.
2. Faucet Extra within the backside right-hand nook.
3. Choose Studying Challenges on the high.
4. Underneath Studying Problem, faucet Problem particulars.

5

Request a refund

However no shopping for books

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Books sometimes aren’t one thing individuals return too usually — until you bought it by chance. Within the Kindle App, you may really submit a refund request proper out of your telephone or pill. You can’t do that in your bodily e-reader itself. As a substitute, you need to go to Amazon’s web site below “Your Orders” or “Handle Your Content material and Units” to submit a refund.

Humorous sufficient, you may’t purchase books by means of the Kindle App like you may on an official Kindle machine. It is because the Kindle App may be downloaded to Apple, Android, or different gadgets exterior Amazon’s walled backyard, so in the event you had been to make a purchase order by means of the app, whichever app retailer you employ would take a reduce. Amazon does not need anybody to take a share of the cake.

To maintain all earnings in-house, Amazon made it so the one option to buy books to your Kindle library was by means of its web site or natively by itself e-readers. Alternatively, refunds do not take away any earnings, so Amazon does not significantly thoughts in the event you use its iOS app to attempt to get your a reimbursement.

1. Open your Kindle App.
2. Faucet Extra within the backside right-hand nook.
3. Choose Assist & Suggestions on the backside.
4. Faucet the guide you’d wish to return and choose a cause.