I switched my Kindle to this secret view, and I am by no means going again

Abstract

Allow Panorama: in a guide, faucet high → Aa → Format → Orientation → choose Panorama.
Nice for mendacity in your aspect, seashore tanning, or late-night “only one extra chapter” studying.
Panorama refreshes structure — wider traces and straightforward font/margin tweaks for a brand new studying vibe.

Planes, trains, and airplanes — all locations you will discover me with my trusty Kindle Paperwhite in hand. I am a voracious reader who does not have the muscle mass (or a powerful sufficient tote) to lug round a library and a half of onerous covers. Even a modest re-read of my favourite collection, Throne of Glass, is an excessive amount of paper to hold for one lady alone. 5-thousand and a few pages actually does add up.

It is true that, in most public transportation and social settings, readers will normally be discovered posted up in a chair, studying their e-readers in regular vertical format. It is the default, in any case, and conventional books are usually printed in portrait. Nevertheless, catch a reader mid-series on a seashore towel or at 3AM saying “only one extra chapter,” and so they’ll in all probability have a game-changing setting enabled to make studying on their aspect much more handy: panorama mode.

Did not know your Kindle may play that method? A number of individuals do not. So, this is the way to allow Panorama mode and browse sideways like a professional.

Storage: 16GB
Display screen Dimension: 6-inch E Ink (300ppi)
Connections: USB-C
Battery: As much as 6 weeks

Amazon’s base-level Kindle ships with 16GB of storage, a 6-inch E Ink show, and a ruggedized exterior shell that may stand up to the weather.

How one can put your Kindle in Panorama mode

Solely 5 faucets

Identical to each different setting on Kindle, discovering Panorama mode is simple and comparatively intuitive. You do not even should exit out of the guide you are presently studying.

Begin inside a guide you are already studying. Faucet the highest of the web page to open the menu choices.
Faucet the Aa choice.
Choose the Format tab.
Below Orientation, faucet the second choice depicting Panorama mode.
Faucet out of the menu, and your textual content will reorient.

There you may have it — now rotate your Kindle 90 levels and revel in longer traces in your present learn.

Why would I put my Kindle in Panorama mode?

Change of tempo, or in any other case

Sure, pricey reader, I do know what you are pondering: the textual content does not change orientation regardless of the way you maintain the Kindle — in contrast to on tablets and telephones the place we have now to make use of Portrait Lock to maintain the orientation the identical after we lie on our sides. However there are a couple of explanation why Kindle-lovers on the market are flocking to this not-so-new technique to learn.

First, readers who like mendacity on their aspect (particularly to even out a tan for those who’re at the beach or pool) completely benefit from the panorama structure. It is also extremely common for late-night readers, with customers throughout TikTok expressing their awe and pleasure at discovering the setting.

Lastly, it is merely a pleasant change of tempo. Kindles could also be single-use know-how, however they’re nonetheless rather more superior than an everyday hardcover or paperback. The power to vary textual content kinds, font sizes, margins, and extra offers a extra refreshed studying expertise normally. To not point out, if somebody is not significantly keen on studying regular bodily books, they could discover that the dearth of ardour was within the formatting, not the contents or act of studying books themselves.

If Panorama mode is not your cup of tea, do not fret. There are many different fun settings to mess with on your Kindle, to not point out on the Kindle app as nicely in your smartphone or pill.

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