5 secret Kindle app tips 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. Abruptly, you can take as many Vince Flynn novels with you anyplace 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 house 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 executed an admirable job of getting digital books into readers’ arms, even in case 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 case you had considered one of its e-readers or not.

The Kindle App syncs together with your Amazon account and offers you entry to all of the e-books bought by it, precisely like your Kindle e-reader. The concept is identical — limitless studying regardless of the place you go. For those who neglect your machine 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 a number of secret options solely obtainable on the Kindle App that your e-reader can solely dream of. Listed here 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, Gentle 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 in case you’re becoming bored with the standard look. To alter the web page coloration, 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 underneath Web page Coloration.

The great type of scrolling

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For those who’re the sort 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) totally by turning complete chapters into one lengthy web page that you just scroll by quite than click on by.

This 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 case you ever hung out shopping infamous fanfiction web sites, like AO3 or Wattpad.

3

Studying ruler

Sustain the tempo by retaining your house

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The Studying Ruler creates a colourful overlay bar 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 decide 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 house once you’re studying. I bumped into this subject virtually day by day after I was in faculty — significantly through the semesters I used to be pre-med and bought 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 nice print (I may’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 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, dimension, and elegance of ruler you like.

As for model, I like 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 info just like the books you’ve got learn this yr 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 yr.

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

This 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 prime.
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 folks return too typically — until you bought it accidentally. Within the Kindle App, you’ll be able to really submit a refund request proper out of your cellphone or pill. You can’t do that in your bodily e-reader itself. As a substitute, it’s essential to go to Amazon’s web site underneath “Your Orders” or “Handle Your Content material and Gadgets” to submit a refund.

Humorous sufficient, you’ll be able to’t purchase books by the Kindle App like you’ll be able to 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 in case you have been to make a purchase order by the app, whichever app retailer you utilize would take a lower. Amazon would not need anybody to take a share of the cake.

To maintain all income in-house, Amazon made it so the one method to buy books to your Kindle library was by its web site or natively by itself e-readers. However, refunds do not take away any revenue, so Amazon would not significantly thoughts in case 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 prefer to return and choose a purpose.