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. Immediately, you can take as many Vince Flynn novels with you wherever 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 course of a friends-to-lovers rom-com? No extra simply coping with it till you bought residence 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 completed an admirable job of getting digital books into readers’ fingers, 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 in all 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 via it, precisely like your Kindle e-reader. The concept is similar — limitless studying regardless of the place you go. In the event you overlook your system 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 couple of secret options completely obtainable on the Kindle App that your e-reader can solely dream of. Listed below 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, Mild 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 extra choices: white, yellow, mint inexperienced, and black. The mint inexperienced colour is especially fairly, and adjustments it up in the event you’re becoming bored with the standard look. To vary the web page colour, observe these steps:

1. Open a guide 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 Format tab.
5. Select between white, yellow, mint inexperienced, and black below Web page Colour.

The nice sort 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 characteristic is correct up your alley. The Kindle App has a setting to rid your self of pages (and thus web page turning) fully by turning entire chapters into one lengthy web page that you just scroll via somewhat than click on via.

This is how you can activate steady scrolling:

1. Open a guide 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 Format tab.
5. Toggle on Steady Scrolling.

It is a acquainted method of studying, as virtually all main social media platforms use this group model for his or her timelines. It is also acquainted in the event you ever hung out looking infamous fanfiction web sites, like AO3 or Wattpad.

3

Studying ruler

Sustain the tempo by preserving your house

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The Studying Ruler creates a colourful overlay bar which you could drag up and down the web page to maintain observe of which line you are studying. It helps you keep targeted 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 couple of moments (or minutes).

This characteristic is a distracted reader’s finest buddy. 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 each day once I was in school — notably through the semesters I used to be pre-med and received misplaced on these teeny tiny strains in my biology textbooks. If I had the Studying Ruler, it would’ve stored me on observe with the effective print (I may’ve been Dr. Fogarty at this level).

As a substitute, right here I’m in journalism to inform you how you can 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 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 magnificence of ruler you favor.

As for model, I like which 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 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 piece 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 aim for what number of books you’d wish to learn in a selected yr.

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

This is how you can 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 usually aren’t one thing folks return too typically — until you bought it accidentally. Within the Kindle App, you’ll be able to truly 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, you need to go to Amazon’s web site below “Your Orders” or “Handle Your Content material and Units” 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 system. It’s because the Kindle App could be downloaded to Apple, Android, or different gadgets exterior Amazon’s walled backyard, so in the event you have been to make a purchase order via the app, whichever app retailer you employ would take a reduce. Amazon does not need anybody to take a share of the cake.

To maintain all earnings in-house, Amazon made it so the one strategy to buy books in your Kindle library was via its web site or natively by itself e-readers. However, refunds do not take away any revenue, so Amazon does not notably thoughts in the event 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 wish to return and choose a cause.