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. Instantly, you can take as many Vince Flynn novels with you wherever you went, and nonetheless have (virtually) limitless area to dabble in all of the genres you needed. 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 dwelling to change up the vibe.

Amazon’s well-known Kindle fashions have develop into synonymous with the time period ‘e-reader,’ and the retail big has achieved an admirable job of getting digital books into readers’ arms, even should 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 should you had one in every of its e-readers or not.

The Kindle App syncs along with your Amazon account and offers you entry to all of the e-books bought via it, precisely like your Kindle e-reader. The thought is identical — limitless studying irrespective of the place you go. In the event you overlook your machine on the morning prepare 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 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 shade

Not simply temperature or darkish mode

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On my Kindle Paperwhite, I can alter 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.

In the event you’re studying on the Kindle App, you’ve got extra choices: white, yellow, mint inexperienced, and black. The mint inexperienced shade is especially fairly, and modifications it up should you’re becoming bored with the standard look. To alter the web page shade, observe these steps:

1. Open a e book you are studying on the Kindle App.
2. Faucet the highest of the web page to convey 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 Coloration.

The nice form of scrolling

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In the event you’re the sort to get intimidated by thick books with lengthy chapters, this app-only function is true up your alley. The Kindle App has a setting to rid your self of pages (and thus web page turning) totally by turning entire chapters into one lengthy web page that you just scroll via reasonably than click on via.

This is the way 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 convey 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 should you ever hung out looking infamous fanfiction web sites, like AO3 or Wattpad.

3

Studying ruler

Sustain the tempo by maintaining your house

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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 centered on that a part of the web page and choose up the place you left off in case your consideration is taken away for a number 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 screen, it is easy to lose your house whenever you’re studying. I bumped into this subject virtually day-after-day after I was in faculty — notably in the course of the semesters I used to be pre-med and acquired misplaced on these teeny tiny strains in my biology textbooks. If I had the Studying Ruler, it would’ve stored me on monitor with the tremendous 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 e book you wish to learn.
2. Faucet the highest of the web page to convey 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 model, I like that 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 leap to the underside of a web page to spoil an upcoming cliffhanger.

4

Studying Challenges

For information 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 yr and particular studying achievements. It is also a spot the place you’ll be able to set a aim for what number of books you’d prefer to learn in a selected yr.

I really like this function to look again on the yr and see all of the titles beneath my belt. It is also enjoyable to ‘unlock’ the completely different bookmarks that come whenever 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 high.
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 — except 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 not do that in your bodily e-reader itself. As a substitute, you have to go to Amazon’s web site beneath “Your Orders” or “Handle Your Content material and Gadgets” to submit a refund.

Humorous sufficient, you’ll be able to’t purchase books via the Kindle App like you’ll be able to on an official Kindle machine. It’s because the Kindle App might be downloaded to Apple, Android, or different gadgets outdoors Amazon’s walled backyard, so should you have been to make a purchase order via the app, whichever app retailer you employ would take a lower. Amazon does not need anybody to take a share of the cake.

To maintain all earnings in-house, Amazon made it so the one approach to buy books in your Kindle library was via its web site or natively by itself e-readers. Then again, refunds do not take away any earnings, 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 e book you’d prefer to return and choose a motive.