5 secret Kindle app tips your e-reader cannot do

E-readers modified the lives of bookworms all over the place once they began gaining traction within the early 2000s. Out of the blue, you might take as many Vince Flynn novels with you wherever you went, and nonetheless have (nearly) 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 grow to be synonymous with the time period ‘e-reader,’ and the retail large has finished an admirable job of getting digital books into readers’ palms, even in the event 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 the event you had one among 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 it, precisely like your Kindle e-reader. The thought is identical — limitless studying regardless of the place you go. Should you overlook your machine on the morning practice 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 a couple of secret options completely out there on the Kindle App that your e-reader can solely dream of. Listed here 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, 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.

Should 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 adjustments it up in the event you’re losing interest with the standard look. To alter the web page colour, comply with these steps:

1. Open a e-book 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 Structure tab.
5. Select between white, yellow, mint inexperienced, and black beneath Web page Colour.

The great type of scrolling

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Should you’re the sort to get intimidated by thick books with lengthy chapters, this app-only function is correct up your alley. The Kindle App has a setting to rid your self of pages (and thus web page turning) solely by turning complete chapters into one lengthy web page that you simply scroll by fairly than click on by.

This is tips on how to activate steady scrolling:

1. Open a e-book 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 Structure tab.
5. Toggle on Steady Scrolling.

It is a acquainted method of studying, as nearly all main social media platforms use this group type for his or her timelines. It is also acquainted in the event 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 monitor 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 couple of moments (or minutes).

This function is a distracted reader’s finest pal. Whether or not it is bodily books or your e-reader’s display, it is simple to lose your house if you’re studying. I bumped into this situation nearly each day after I was in faculty — significantly through the semesters I used to be pre-med and obtained misplaced on these teeny tiny strains in my biology textbooks. If I had the Studying Ruler, it would’ve saved me on monitor with the superb print (I may’ve been Dr. Fogarty at this level).

As a substitute, right here I’m in journalism to inform you tips on how to get that studying ruler in your Kindle App:

1. Open your Kindle App and choose a e-book you need 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, dimension, and elegance of ruler you favor.

As for type, I like you could go for the ruler to spotlight 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 referred to as Studying Insights, Studying Challenges is a bit of the Kindle App devoted to exhibiting off info just like the books you’ve got learn this 12 months and particular studying achievements. It is also a spot the place you possibly can set a purpose for what number of books you’d wish to learn in a selected 12 months.

I really like this function to look again on the 12 months and see all of the titles beneath my belt. It is also enjoyable to ‘unlock’ the completely different bookmarks that come if you fulfill an achievement.

This is tips on how 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 sometimes aren’t one thing individuals return too typically — 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 not do that in your bodily e-reader itself. As a substitute, it’s essential 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 the Kindle App like you possibly can on an official Kindle machine. It’s because the Kindle App could be downloaded to Apple, Android, or different gadgets outdoors Amazon’s walled backyard, so in the event you have been to make a purchase order by the app, whichever app retailer you employ 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 method to buy books in your Kindle library was by its web site or natively by itself e-readers. However, refunds do not take away any earnings, so Amazon does not significantly thoughts in the event you 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 e-book you’d wish to return and choose a motive.