The newest Kindle replace helps you to flip pages ...

Amazon has up to date Kindles with a brand new approach to navigate books. Whereas nothing will recapture the tactile pleasure of bodily web page flip buttons, anybody with a Kindle working Version 5.18.1 of Amazon’s software program will now be capable to double-tap the facet or again of their e-reader to show pages.

“Double Faucet to Web page Flip” could be turned on within the Settings menu below Machine Choices. Amazon says it really works for extra than simply turning pages. You may also use double faucets to scroll by your House and Library pages, too. Apparently, the choice would not use the touchscreen in any respect. Good E-Reader speculates Amazon is counting on the accelerometer inside Kindles to detect faucets.

Together with the replace, Amazon can be including a characteristic it calls “Recaps for Books in Sequence.” These are quick summaries “for hundreds of bestselling English language Kindle books in collection you might have bought or borrowed.” The corporate already does issues like robotically group books from the identical collection to make them simpler to seek out, however this could prevent the difficulty of trying up a abstract of A Dance with Dragons earlier than diving into The Winds of Winter — assuming it is ever launched.

The 5.18.1 replace is rolling out now newer Kindles, just like the Kindle Colorsoft, and units as previous because the tenth technology Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite. It’s going to even be accessible on the final of Amazon’s e-readers to have bodily buttons, the Kindle Oasis. In case you do not see it in your machine now, you may manually obtain the replace from Amazon’s website and set up it your self.