5 secret Kindle app tips your e-reader cannot do

E-readers modified the lives of bookworms in every single place after they began gaining traction within the early 2000s. Out of the blue, you might take as many Vince Flynn novels with you wherever you went, and nonetheless have (nearly) limitless house to dabble in all of the genres you needed. 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 residence to change up the vibe.

Amazon’s well-known Kindle fashions have grow to be synonymous with the time period ‘e-reader,’ and the retail big has finished an admirable job of getting digital books into readers’ palms, even when 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 when you had considered one of its e-readers or not.

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

1

Change the web page colour

Not simply temperature or darkish mode

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

If you happen to’re studying on the Kindle App, you have got extra choices: white, yellow, mint inexperienced, and black. The mint inexperienced colour is especially fairly, and modifications it up when you’re becoming bored with the normal look. To alter the web page colour, comply with these steps:

1. Open a e-book 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 Format tab.
5. Select between white, yellow, mint inexperienced, and black beneath Web page Colour.

The great type of scrolling

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If you happen to’re the kind to get intimidated by thick books with lengthy chapters, this app-only characteristic is correct up your alley. The Kindle App has a setting to rid your self of pages (and thus web page turning) fully by turning complete chapters into one lengthy web page that you just scroll by way of fairly than click on by way of.

This is easy methods to activate steady scrolling:

1. Open a e-book 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 Format tab.
5. Toggle on Steady Scrolling.

It is a acquainted method of studying, as nearly all main social media platforms use this group fashion for his or her timelines. It is also acquainted when you ever frolicked shopping infamous fanfiction web sites, like AO3 or Wattpad.

3

Studying ruler

Sustain the tempo by conserving your home

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The Studying Ruler creates a colourful overlay bar that you could drag up and down the web page to maintain observe of which line you are studying. It helps you keep centered 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 finest good friend. Whether or not it is bodily books or your e-reader’s display screen, it is simple to lose your home once you’re studying. I bumped into this subject nearly daily after I was in faculty — significantly in the course of the semesters I used to be pre-med and obtained misplaced on these teeny tiny strains in my biology textbooks. If I had the Studying Ruler, it’d’ve stored me on observe with the high quality print (I might’ve been Dr. Fogarty at this level).

As an alternative, right here I’m in journalism to inform you easy methods to get that studying ruler in your Kindle App:

1. Open your Kindle App and choose a e-book you need 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 fashion, I like that you could go for the ruler to focus on the textual content you are studying or block out the textual content you are not. Typically my eyes can not help however bounce to the underside of a web page to spoil an upcoming cliffhanger.

4

Studying Challenges

For information nerds like me

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Beforehand known as Studying Insights, Studying Challenges is a piece of the Kindle App devoted to displaying off info just like the books you have learn this 12 months and particular studying achievements. It is also a spot the place you possibly can set a purpose for what number of books you’d prefer to learn in a specific 12 months.

I really like this characteristic to look again on the 12 months and see all of the titles beneath my belt. It is also enjoyable to ‘unlock’ the completely different bookmarks that come once you fulfill an achievement.

This is easy methods 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. Beneath Studying Problem, faucet Problem particulars.

5

Request a refund

However no shopping for books

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Books usually aren’t one thing individuals return too typically — until you bought it by chance. Within the Kindle App, you possibly can truly submit a refund request proper out of your cellphone or pill. You can not do that in your bodily e-reader itself. As an alternative, you could go to Amazon’s web site beneath “Your Orders” or “Handle Your Content material and Units” to submit a refund.

Humorous sufficient, you possibly can’t purchase books by way of the Kindle App like you possibly can on an official Kindle machine. It is because the Kindle App could be downloaded to Apple, Android, or different gadgets exterior Amazon’s walled backyard, so when you had been to make a purchase order by way of the app, whichever app retailer you utilize would take a minimize. Amazon would not need anybody to take a share of the cake.

To maintain all income in-house, Amazon made it so the one strategy to buy books to your Kindle library was by way of its web site or natively by itself e-readers. Then again, refunds do not take away any earnings, so Amazon would not significantly thoughts when 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 e-book you’d prefer to return and choose a motive.