5 secret Kindle app tips your e-reader cannot do

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

Amazon’s well-known Kindle fashions have change into synonymous with the time period ‘e-reader,’ and the retail large has accomplished an admirable job of getting digital books into readers’ fingers, even if you happen to 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 if you happen to had one in all its e-readers or not.

The Kindle App syncs along 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 thought is identical — limitless studying irrespective of the place you go. In the event you overlook your gadget on the morning practice 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 just a few secret options solely obtainable 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 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.

In the event you’re studying on the Kindle App, you’ve extra choices: white, yellow, mint inexperienced, and black. The mint inexperienced colour is especially fairly, and modifications it up if you happen to’re becoming bored with the standard look. To alter the web page colour, observe these steps:

1. Open a guide you are studying on the Kindle App.
2. Faucet the highest of the web page to deliver 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 sort of scrolling

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

This is methods to activate steady scrolling:

1. Open a guide you are studying on the Kindle App.
2. Faucet the highest of the web page to deliver 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 approach of studying, as virtually all main social media platforms use this group fashion for his or her timelines. It is also acquainted if you happen to ever hung out shopping infamous fanfiction web sites, like AO3 or Wattpad.

3

Studying ruler

Sustain the tempo by protecting your home

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

This function is a distracted reader’s greatest pal. Whether or not it is bodily books or your e-reader’s display screen, it is easy to lose your home once you’re studying. I bumped into this challenge virtually daily after I was in school — significantly through the semesters I used to be pre-med and acquired misplaced on these teeny tiny traces in my biology textbooks. If I had the Studying Ruler, it’d’ve saved me on monitor with the tremendous print (I may’ve been Dr. Fogarty at this level).

As a substitute, right here I’m in journalism to inform you methods 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 deliver 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 magnificence of ruler you favor.

As for fashion, I like which 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 knowledge nerds like me

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Beforehand known as Studying Insights, Studying Challenges is a bit of the Kindle App devoted to displaying off data just like the books you have learn this yr and particular studying achievements. It is also a spot the place you possibly can set a aim for what number of books you’d wish to learn in a specific yr.

I like this function to look again on the yr 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 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 folks return too usually — except you bought it by chance. Within the Kindle App, you possibly can 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 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 gadget. It’s because the Kindle App will be downloaded to Apple, Android, or different gadgets outdoors Amazon’s walled backyard, so if you happen to had been to make a purchase order by way 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 strategy to buy books in 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 does not significantly thoughts if you happen to use its iOS app to attempt to get your a refund.

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 motive.