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Amazon is known world-wide as the biggest e-commerce store, cloud computing, AI and much more. Amazon focuses in all technological aspects of the contemporary world

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Feb 21 2019
Tips to get more out of your Amazon Kindle E-reader

Amazon is known world-wide as the biggest e-commerce store, cloud computing, AI and much more. Amazon focuses in all technological aspects of the contemporary world and caters billions of happy Amazon users worldwide.

One of Amazon’s venture is Kindle. It is an app used usually for reading books. It is packed with may features which many users are not aware of. The following are some tips to help you get more out of the amazing Amazon’s e-book reader.

Convert documents before sending it to Kindle

One of the features of Amazon’s e-book reader is the send-to-Kindle feature which enables you to quickly email the books or documents to your Kindle. Kindle is compatible with a huge range of file formats. For you to take full advantage of its functionalities kindle also offers, together with the send-to-kindle feature, the font size and Whisper sync.

To convert the documents to the Kindle format, all you would need to do is write “convert” as the subject line while emailing the file to your send-to-Kindle email address and Amazon will automatically convert the file. So it’s better to convert your documents beforehand.

Clutter-free Kindle home screen 

The problem with Kindle home screen is the display of so many books. Now, you can fix this by turning off the recommendations from Amazon.

Normally, your home screen is occupied with your favorite books. Amazon will use this to keep sending you items related to your favorite books. Turning off the recommendations can fix the issue of populated Kindle home screen. To do so, you can go to the settings then device options. Tap advanced options and you will find an option to disable Home Screen View from there.

Connect social accounts to your Kindle

It automatically enhances your user-experience when you connect your social media accounts to an app or site. Amazon takes the lead on this, as it lets you link your Facebook and Twitter accounts to your Kindle. You can now instantly share your favorite passage of the book on your social timeline.

To connect your social media profiles you will have to go to settings, tap My Account and scroll to Social Networks. By clicking the account you can easily link it with your Kindle account.

View the most highlighted passage in the e-book

If you want to view the most highlighted passages in an e-book then you have to follow a procedure. First open the book and tap the three-dot button that is present on the top quick access menu. Then, click notes and also Popular tab right after. Here you will be able to view the text that was highlighted by the maximum numbers of e-book readers. It will also show you the number of people who highlighted it. You can also simply tap any individual paragraph to quickly access the associated pages too.

Screenshot your Kindle

You can certainly take a screen shot in Kindle just like you do it with your phone or computer. The process is a little complicated and can take up to a couple of attempts at the beginning. To capture a screenshot, you will tap two opposing corners like the top right and bottom left. If this attempt is successful then the screen will flash momentarily and you are good to export the screenshots.

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