Abstract
- X-Ray on Kindle reveals characters, locations, phrases, pictures and fast context contained in the guide.
- Entry X-Ray from the in-book menu: faucet prime, open stop-light menu, then choose X-Ray.
- Works offline, hyperlinks to exterior sources generally, nice for large casts and maps.
As soon as a bookworm, at all times a bookworm. When you’re the identical, then you understand the ache of selecting between rereading an outdated favourite novel, beginning a brand new collection, or going to the bookstore to stack one other title atop the TBR pile. At one level or one other, you’ve got absolutely picked up a couple of story at a time and tried to do a tandem learn, which will get complicated quick if you happen to’re mixing up one fantasy world with one other. Iron would possibly kill fairies in Terrasen, however it does not do squat in Prythian.
Generally, you go weeks (or months… and even years) with out ending a guide, and whenever you lastly choose it again up, you are utterly misplaced. You flip open to a chapter stuffed with characters you barely keep in mind. Are they brothers, or simply greatest pals? Who’s that aspect character, and the place did she come from?
Or perhaps you are absolutely immersed within the collection, however there are simply so many characters that conserving monitor feels not possible. Sticky notes between pages might help, however if you happen to’re studying on a Kindle or different e-reader, you may’t precisely wedge Publish-its between digital pages. Happily, there is a sensible function that handles all of that for you — conserving characters organized and simple to reference: X-Ray.
- Model
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Amazon
- Display screen
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7-inch E-ink, 300ppi, 16-level grey scale
- Storage
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16GB
What’s X-Ray on Kindle e-readers?
Seeing between the traces
X-Ray is a reference software constructed proper into your Kindle. It allows you to faucet on the title of a personality or place and immediately get contextual info on them. It even works with obscurer phrases particular to that guide.
Generally, relying on the guide, there’ll even be hyperlinks to Goodreads, Wikipedia, or one other exterior supply that may present extra of an index on whichever time period you select. Nevertheless, some customers point out that some books’ X-Ray function have subsequent to no info whereas others function a complete index in and of itself.
As for the non-hyperlinked sources, you may even entry them with out an web connection, equivalent to on airplane mode or out and about with out Wi-Fi. The knowledge is saved throughout the e-book itself, and authors may even go in and add, edit, or just allow X-Ray entries for his or her Kindle e-books by means of Amazon Direct Publishing.
Among the issues a guide’s X-Ray will present embody:
- Biographies
- Associated passages
- Additional context
- Notes that the creator added themselves
Tips on how to entry an e-book’s X-Ray
It is just a little hidden
Identical to most of Kindle’s settings and options, X-Ray is simple to make use of and comparatively intuitive to seek out. Nevertheless, in contrast to altering the font measurement and margin sizes, X-Ray is in a distinct menu. Here is the right way to discover it:
- Begin throughout the guide you are presently studying. Faucet the prime of the web page to tug up the highest menu.
- Faucet the stop-light menu within the higher right-hand nook.
- Faucet X-Ray.
Relying in your guide, sure tabs will seem on the prime. For instance: Notable clips, Folks, Phrases, and Photos populated for the prequel to Throne of Glass, known as Murderer’s Blade, by Sarah J Maas. This explicit guide is mainly a group of tales in varied locations, so it appears like there are dozens of characters to maintain monitor of always, so I assumed it excellent to make use of it to showcase the X-Ray function.
The Notable clips part consists of precisely that — X-Ray pulls varied sentences and paragraphs from throughout the guide which can be vital to the story or predominant characters themselves. You need to use the tiny arrows on the left and proper sides of the display to toggle by means of them, and above the quote itself, there’s a progress bar that tells you the situation of every of the quotes, in addition to the chapter or part title.
Below Folks, you may first see the point out of characters in your present web page. Then, you may scroll right down to see different characters within the guide, in addition to every of their mentions. The primary character of Murderer’s Blade, Celaena Sardothien, was talked about 1,081 occasions. After I clicked her title, I obtained entry to tabs that confirmed me her particular person notable clips, in addition to all mentions of her title on the whole. For a predominant character, this is probably not as useful. Nevertheless, for a personality talked about solely a few times originally who makes a shock look on the finish, this function is extremely helpful.
Phrases is extra hit-or-miss, however for collection that function completely different sorts of individuals and/or magic techniques, just like the Grishaverse books by Leigh Bardugo, it is additional helpful. Lastly, Photos is one other part that may both be useful or not — some books solely have a picture for the quilt of the guide itself. Nevertheless, in case your guide encompasses a map originally or finish, X-Ray is an effective way to rapidly reference it if you happen to’re attempting to get a lay of the land — it positively helped me once I tried to know the logistics of Sam and Frodo’s journey to Mordor.
