5 secret Kindle app methods your e-reader cannot do

E-readers modified the lives of bookworms all over the place after they began gaining traction within the early 2000s. Immediately, you would take as many Vince Flynn novels with you anyplace you went, and nonetheless have (nearly) limitless area 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 dwelling to modify up the vibe.

Amazon’s well-known Kindle fashions have turn into synonymous with the time period ‘e-reader,’ and the retail big has executed an admirable job of getting digital books into readers’ fingers, even should you do not agree with all of its actions. It did not cease at its single-use units, both — Amazon launched a free Kindle app in 2009 for customers to learn their downloaded books on their smartphones or tablets, regardless should you had one among 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 similar — limitless studying irrespective of the place you go. For those who overlook your gadget 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 just a few 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 coloration

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.

For those who’re studying on the Kindle App, you might have extra choices: white, yellow, mint inexperienced, and black. The mint inexperienced coloration is especially fairly, and modifications it up should you’re becoming bored with the standard look. To vary the web page coloration, comply with these steps:

1. Open a ebook 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 underneath Web page Colour.

The great form of scrolling

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For those who’re the kind 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) completely by turning entire chapters into one lengthy web page that you simply scroll by way of relatively than click on by way of.

This is the best way to activate steady scrolling:

1. Open a ebook 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 manner of studying, as nearly all main social media platforms use this group type for his or her timelines. It is also acquainted should 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 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 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 whenever you’re studying. I bumped into this challenge nearly daily once I was in faculty — notably throughout 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 stored me on monitor with the high-quality print (I may’ve been Dr. Fogarty at this level).

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

1. Open your Kindle App and choose a ebook 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, dimension, and magnificence of ruler you like.

As for type, 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. Generally 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 referred to as Studying Insights, Studying Challenges is a bit of the Kindle App devoted to exhibiting off data just like the books you’ve got learn this 12 months and particular studying achievements. It is also a spot the place you’ll be able to set a purpose for what number of books you’d prefer to learn in a selected 12 months.

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

This is the best 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. Below 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 — until you bought it accidentally. Within the Kindle App, you’ll be able to truly submit a refund request proper out of your cellphone or pill. You can’t do that in your bodily e-reader itself. As an alternative, you should go to Amazon’s web site underneath “Your Orders” or “Handle Your Content material and Units” to submit a refund.

Humorous sufficient, you’ll be able to’t purchase books by way of the Kindle App like you’ll be able to on an official Kindle gadget. It is because the Kindle App might be downloaded to Apple, Android, or different units exterior Amazon’s walled backyard, so should you have been to make a purchase order by way of the app, whichever app retailer you utilize would take a minimize. Amazon does not need anybody to take a share of the cake.

To maintain all income in-house, Amazon made it so the one option 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 revenue, so Amazon does not notably thoughts should 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 ebook you’d prefer to return and choose a motive.