Amazon has up to date Kindles with a brand new method 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 beneath Machine Choices. Amazon says it really works for extra than simply turning pages. You may as well use double faucets to scroll via your House and Library pages, too. Curiously, the choice doesn't 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 function it calls "Recaps for Books in Sequence." These are brief summaries "for hundreds of bestselling English language Kindle books in sequence you’ve gotten bought or borrowed." The corporate already does issues like robotically group books from the identical sequence to make them simpler to search 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's ever launched.
The 5.18.1 replace is rolling out now newer Kindles, just like the Kindle Colorsoft, and gadgets as outdated because the tenth era Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite. It’ll even be obtainable on the final of Amazon's e-readers to have bodily buttons, the Kindle Oasis. Should you don't see it in your gadget now, you possibly can manually obtain the replace from Amazon's website and set up it your self.
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