I take advantage of this secret Kindle structure in 4 oddly particular situations

Whereas scrolling TikTok a couple of weeks in the past, I found one thing spectacular: Kindle panorama mode. E-readers, being principally single-use tech, are so easy and clear that unbelievable options typically go unused. Panorama mode is a kind of settings, and allows you to reorient a Kindle’s show 90 levels and maintain your machine horizontally.

I instantly rushed to the feedback. Whereas many Kindle customers had been simply as excited as I used to be, a good quantity had been confused, questioning what the massive deal was, since all panorama mode technically does is make the traces longer.

It is true that panorama mode is not some revolutionary new show setting that adjustments studying as we all know it. Nevertheless, I can consider a number of particular instances that I take advantage of (or wish to use) panorama mode on my Kindle. Right here they’re.

Aspect-reading

From the sofa to the seaside

It is borderline unattainable to tear my Kindle from my fingers once I’ve discovered a great novel. Even worse is once I discover a multi-book sequence — my e-reader will likely be glued to my fingers till the solar rises the subsequent morning. However you will not discover me in the identical spot all night time; I like to maneuver between my chair, sofa, and mattress to take pleasure in my tales.

There’s nothing that cures insomnia higher than laying in your aspect with a e-book. However I get actually irritated holding my e-reader within the default portrait type for greater than half an hour — I both have to carry it in opposition to the sofa with my high hand and look on the reverse aspect at a barely awkward angle, or maintain it up with my backside hand and canopy a part of the display. Gravity can also be not sort to my face once I nod off at 3AM and the Kindle slips out of my grip.

Whenever you swap your Kindle to panorama, holding it simply feels simpler. I am undecided what the physics are behind it, nevertheless it feels extra pure to carry the Kindle horizontally along with your high hand braced in opposition to the sofa. I took this trick on my final seaside journey, and I tore by means of novels even quicker with the brand new orientation.

Should you use bigger fonts

Cut back eye pressure

Studying with a much bigger font reduces the variety of phrases on every Kindle web page. Larger textual content takes up extra horizontal area, which suggests fewer phrases per line. In consequence, your eyes have to leap between traces extra regularly — which causes pressure over time. Should you learn in portrait mode with a bigger font measurement, you recognize precisely what I imply.

A method to remedy this fatigue is to learn in panorama mode. It makes your show wider relatively than taller, so even with a bigger font, you will match extra phrases per line. That boils right down to fewer textual content breaks, fewer bodily interruptions, and a extra steady studying expertise. Simply since you wish to improve the scale of your letters does not imply you need to sacrifice your studying groove.

To learn PDFs or articles

From my Ship to Kindle portal

Face it: PDFs aren’t at all times clear on a Kindle. The Ship to Kindle portal would not assure a format will work effectively in slim portrait mode. PDFs (and different paperwork you would possibly wish to learn) typically include blended media like charts, graphs, tables, wider formatting, and so on. Do not even get me began on when it has a couple of column of textual content.

Switching to panorama might not repair each structure situation, nevertheless it typically makes paperwork a lot simpler to learn. I want I had recognized about this throughout faculty when professors despatched 50-page PDFs — studying them in E Ink in panorama would’ve saved my eyes.

For a change of tempo

Preserve your eyes on their toes

You may not want panorama mode in your posture, font measurement, or wonky PDF structure, however you do not really want a proper excuse to make use of it. Should you learn each single e-book in your Kindle, you would possibly finally hit machine fatigue — one thing a contemporary new structure can alleviate.

Switching to panorama mode breaks the monotony of portrait studying. It adjustments the variety of phrases per line, adjusts the margins, and makes the display really feel barely extra open. Identical to venturing to a espresso store to interrupt out of my dwelling workplace, typically novelty is the very best motivation.

It is uncommon that I am in a studying stoop, however typically studying in panorama mode tips my mind into considering no matter textual content I am studying is one thing new, particularly if it is a e-book or article I do not significantly wish to learn. It is a small shift, however refreshing manner for my eyes to maneuver throughout a web page — to not point out the brand new grip in my fingers.