5 of my favourite Kindle hacks that change how I e...

There is no competitors relating to my favourite gadget — the Kindle Paperwhite takes dwelling the gold each time. The 16GB E Ink pill comes with me on each morning commute, seaside journey, and low store run, simply in case I get a couple of minutes to bask in BookTok’s newest declare to fame. As a reader, carrying any form of Kindle in your ebook bag is equal to a knight along with his sword.

Nonetheless, like knights, we Kindle-bearers fluctuate in our levels of ability. Amazon snuck options onto its tablets that not even I knew about till just lately. I am not speaking about Evening Mode or Highlights, both — listed here are 5 Kindle hacks that caught me off guard and at the moment are part of my every day follow with the single-use pill.

1

Take a screenshot in your Kindle

And never with buttons, both

Whether or not it is a sick map, a fantastic monochromatic cowl, and even only a web page filled with quotes it’s essential to memorialize, it is solely pure to need to take a psychological image once you learn. Whilst you can simply snap an image of a ebook or Kindle together with your telephone, it simply is not the identical as capturing it with out different annoying distractions filling up the body. Do not you simply want you can take a screenshot in your Kindle?

Nice information — you’ll be able to. On the newer Kindle fashions, just like the 2024 Paperwhite and Oasis, all it’s important to do is faucet two reverse corners of the display screen on the similar time to snag it. The display screen will do a fast inverted ‘flash,’ and growth, screenshot acquired.

You possibly can take screenshots on different fashions, too. On the Kindle Contact, press and maintain the Residence button and faucet anyplace on the display screen. On a Kindle Scribe, press and maintain the ability button and hit Screenshot when the menu pops up.

Be aware that you would be able to solely entry your screenshots on a pc once you join your Kindle through USB. As soon as it is related, your gadget will pop up as an exterior drive. There, you may see a folder known as Screenshots, and inside might be all of your valuable footage.

2

Ship to Kindle

Recent eyes on not-so-fresh paperwork

Send to Kindle is a function Amazon graced its customers with in order that they might ship paperwork, books, and different information proper to their Kindles with out going buying by way of the net retailer itself. You possibly can ship these information out of your pc, cellular gadget, and even proper from apps like Phrase. It is a lifesaver for college students whose eyes are continuously strained by the intense screens of their laptops, and even my pal who likes to learn journal articles on her morning prepare trip (speak in regards to the intersection of analog and digital within the massive 2025). To seize one thing from the net like that, it’s important to use Amazon’s specific browser extension.

I prefer it particularly to make amends for tales from Pocket-lint that I’ve missed all through the week. It is an awesome workaround for customers who’ve bought books from someplace aside from Amazon, too.

3

Play with margins

I would like my studying expertise to be as near a ebook as potential

Now here is a very particular tip, and one that can make your Kindle really feel much more just like the hardcover titles of previous:

1. Start on an open learn.
2. Faucet the highest of the display screen to carry up the menu.
3. Faucet Aa.
4. Toggle over to the Structure tab.
5. Beneath Margins, choose the center choice.
6. Now toggle over to Font, and set the Measurement to 6, 7, or 8.

You are both going to like or hate this look. I feel that it really supplies extra of an extended web page really feel, and makes me really feel like I am studying a bodily ebook slightly than looking at a display screen — even when it’s the pretty E Ink. Some users declare it boosts their studying speeds.

4

Change fonts with a particular short-cut

Hiding in plain website

This one is extremely intuitive, particularly when you’re (additionally) the form of one that’s tried to ‘zoom in’ on a bodily ebook since you forgot you were not studying on a display screen. For those who take two fingers and unfold them aside and even collectively on the display screen — identical to you’d on different units to ‘zoom in’ or ‘zoom out’ — a font dimension menu will seem on the high of the display screen.

Cautious, although. For those who do not work together with it rapidly sufficient, it is going to disappear.

5

Swap between location orientations immediately

You may’ve discovered this one by accident, or in a irritating match of “what even is ‘location'” faucets. Simply me? Okay, nicely, if you have not heard of this one, learn on. As any Kindle proprietor has most likely seen, there is a setting within the decrease left-hand nook of your display screen that orients you in your studying progress. You possibly can select between:

• Web page in ebook
• Location in ebook
• Time left in chapter
• Time left in ebook
• None

Personally, I desire a easy web page quantity. However, when you’re in a time crunch and solely have a couple of minutes to learn on a aircraft or prepare, you may desire swapping to time left in chapter or ebook to find out when you’re about to be left on a cliffhanger. Fortunately, you do not have to go sifting by way of menus to vary it up on a dime. As a substitute, you’ll be able to simply rapidly faucet the decrease left-hand nook to swap between the choices till you land on the one you like.