Abstract
- The Kindle App brings app-only perks: mint/yellow web page colours, steady scrolling, and a studying ruler.
- Observe progress with Studying Challenges, set yearly objectives, and unlock achievement bookmarks.
- Request e-book refunds proper within the app; purchases nonetheless should be made on Amazon or a Kindle system.
E-readers modified the lives of bookworms all over the place once they began gaining traction within the early 2000s. Immediately, you might 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 course of a friends-to-lovers rom-com? No extra simply coping with it till you bought dwelling to modify up the vibe.
Amazon’s well-known Kindle fashions have turn into synonymous with the time period ‘e-reader,’ and the retail big has accomplished an admirable job of getting digital books into readers’ palms, even for those who 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 for those who 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 by means of it, precisely like your Kindle e-reader. The concept is similar — limitless studying irrespective 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 number of secret options completely obtainable on the Kindle App that your e-reader can solely dream of. Listed here are my six favorites.
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Change the web page colour
Not simply temperature or darkish mode
On my Kindle Paperwhite, I can regulate the web page to be in Darkish mode, Mild mode, and even the heat of the web page to be simpler on my eyes. Nevertheless, 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 gotten extra choices: white, yellow, mint inexperienced, and black. The mint inexperienced colour is especially fairly, and modifications it up for those who’re losing interest with the normal look. To vary the web page colour, comply with these steps:
- Open a ebook you are studying on the Kindle App.
- Faucet the highest of the web page to convey up menus.
- Faucet the Aa setting within the higher right-hand nook.
- Choose the Format tab.
- Select between white, yellow, mint inexperienced, and black below Web page Coloration.
You can even toggle on “Replace Web page Utilizing System Theme” if you need the web page colour to routinely regulate based mostly in your system’s settings.
The great sort of scrolling
In the event you’re the kind to get intimidated by thick books with lengthy chapters, this app-only characteristic is true up your alley. The Kindle App has a setting to rid your self of pages (and thus web page turning) completely by turning complete chapters into one lengthy web page that you just scroll by means of somewhat than click on by means of.
This is find out how to activate steady scrolling:
- Open a ebook you are studying on the Kindle App.
- Faucet the highest of the web page to convey up menus.
- Faucet the Aa setting within the higher right-hand nook.
- Choose the Format tab.
- Toggle on Steady Scrolling.
It is a acquainted manner of studying, as virtually all main social media platforms use this group type for his or her timelines. It is also acquainted for those who ever hung out shopping infamous fanfiction web sites, like AO3 or Wattpad.
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Studying ruler
Sustain the tempo by maintaining your house
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 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 greatest good friend. Whether or not it is bodily books or your e-reader’s display screen, it is simple to lose your house while you’re studying. I bumped into this subject virtually day-after-day once I was in school — 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 saved me on observe with the effective print (I might’ve been Dr. Fogarty at this level).
As a substitute, right here I’m in journalism to inform you find out how to get that studying ruler in your Kindle App:
- Open your Kindle App and choose a ebook you wish to learn.
- Faucet the highest of the web page to convey up menus.
- Faucet the Aa setting within the higher right-hand nook.
- Choose the Extra tab.
- Faucet Studying Ruler, then toggle it on.
- Choose the colour, transparency, measurement, and elegance of ruler you favor.
As for type, I like which you could go for the ruler to spotlight the textual content you are studying or block out the textual content you are not. Generally my eyes can not help however leap to the underside of a web page to spoil an upcoming cliffhanger.
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Studying Challenges
For information nerds like me
Beforehand referred to as Studying Insights, Studying Challenges is a bit of the Kindle App devoted to exhibiting off data just like the books you’ve got learn this 12 months and particular studying achievements. It is also a spot the place you may set a aim for what number of books you’d wish to learn in a selected 12 months.
I really like this characteristic to look again on the 12 months and see all of the titles below my belt. It is also enjoyable to ‘unlock’ the totally different bookmarks that come while you fulfill an achievement.
This is find out how to entry Studying Challenges:
- Open your Kindle App.
- Faucet Extra within the backside right-hand nook.
- Choose Studying Challenges on the prime.
- Below Studying Problem, faucet Problem particulars.
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Request a refund
However no shopping for books
Books usually aren’t one thing folks return too typically — until you bought it accidentally. Within the Kindle App, you may truly 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, it’s essential to go to Amazon’s web site below “Your Orders” or “Handle Your Content material and Units” to submit a refund.
Humorous sufficient, you may’t purchase books by means of the Kindle App like you may on an official Kindle system. It is because the Kindle App might be downloaded to Apple, Android, or different gadgets outdoors Amazon’s walled backyard, so for those who have been to make a purchase order by means of the app, whichever app retailer you utilize would take a minimize. Amazon would 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 to your Kindle library was by means of its web site or natively by itself e-readers. However, refunds do not take away any earnings, so Amazon would not notably thoughts for those who use its iOS app to attempt to get your a refund.
- Open your Kindle App.
- Faucet Extra within the backside right-hand nook.
- Choose Assist & Suggestions on the backside.
- Faucet the ebook you’d wish to return and choose a cause.
Be aware that Amazon has a seven-day return coverage for unintended e-book purchases.
