11 Answers2026-07-27
My Kindle is used in bed so to solve for the problem above I've set up a gooseneck for a tablet holder on my headboard. The Kindle sits right in front of my face and I use a small Bluetooth remote to turn pages. My hands are tucked under the blankets and never touch the screen. It's a bit of a goof but really is the most comfortable way to read. Sensitivity is never an issue since I never touch the screen.
9 Answers2025-07-28
I see many people fail to grasp a very simple two-step process here, which is true for any modern Kindle: Swipe down from top of screen with your finger, and then tap the gear icon in the resulting screen. After that, as is typical for Kindle settings, you can simply tap your way through the left-hand list of categories and their right-hand details. “Reading Options” is by far the most important category for most users, as it determines how a book will look to them, i.e. the visual appearance of a book. Thus it is very important to get the visual appearance of a book right for comfort over longer periods of time. The other categories include “Device Options” for administrative actions (rebooting, checking storage), “Wireless” for connecting a Kindle to the Internet, etc. The interface inside the settings is extremely simple and clean.
7 Answers2025-07-04
I just found out people actually look at the home page on our app and I thought everyone just used the swipe-up link in their chat or the menu button to go straight to their library. That space on the home page is just real estate for an ad I can swipe past anyway.
10 Answers2025-07-04
You can’t fully disable the personal recommendations, as Amazon wants to try to sell you additional products. The only thing you can try to do is to limit their visibility. To start, navigate to Settings > Device Options > Advanced Options > Home & Library. Change the ‘Home Screen View’ to ‘Library’ in order to avoid seeing the ad-heavy home screen when turning your Fire TV on. Then, within that same menu, turn ‘off’ ‘Show Recommendations on Home’ and ‘Show Recommended Content in Library’. Again, this won’t necessarily remove the recommendations from existence, but it will at least move them out of your face.
12 Answers2025-08-04
Older Kindle models (without front light) can be a challenge to read manga on. Their screens are small and have low resolution. While on landscape mode you can ‘pinch’ and ‘zoom’ a lot, the optimal reading size of a manga page (approximately 800×1200 pixels) in portrait mode does not fit onto the 167 ppi screens of these basic Kindle models.
Your main focus should be to prepare the file as optimally as possible on your computer before transferring it to the device. I convert my ebook files using Calibre, and in the output profile I choose the correct Kindle for which I’m producing the ebook. This down-scales the images to the correct resolution for the device. In many cases, the resulting images are actually sharper than if the device were to rescale them software-wise.
8 Answers2025-07-31
For some books, the printed text area can vary quite a lot between different print editions. A book such as The Alchemist has been released in a number of different mass-market sized paperbacks which seem to have been printed to around 250 pages, as well as larger trade paperback editions of around 170 pages which actually contain the same text. The Kindle edition of The Alchemist uses one of these print editions as a reference point. Most commonly it is the 208-page edition, so when someone quotes a page number from this book, this is the sort of reference they will be using. However, the Kindle will then scale this to the chosen font size and also take into account any margins that have been set. This is a short book. If you are expecting a deep and complex fantasy then you will be disappointed. The Alchemist is a philosophical fable of roughly the same length as a long story or a folk tale. Such stories are not long by nature, they are long by meaning.
3 Answers2025-07-15
The ability to change text size within a book on Kindle is fantastic. Typically I read fiction and non-fiction. I have the text size changed for fiction to a smaller size (3 or 4) to be fully immersive, and for non-fiction to a larger size (5 or 6) for clearer reading.
Pairing these adjustments up with other settings such as increasing the font size and utilizing a medium bold font like ‘Amazon Ember’ creates a wonderful reading experience. I prefer to read with medium margins and increased line space between words (1.8) to ensure I don’t find myself jumping from line to line to read. The combination of using Kindle in dark mode with increased text size makes for a late-night reading experience that is easy on the eyes and cozy.
3 Answers2025-07-08
As a general rule, I prefer not to read PDFs on my Kindle. However, I have found that there are two methods that can make reading PDFs relatively hassle-free. The Kindle’s built-in ‘Fit to Screen’ option is sufficient for simple PDFs, such as novels or reports. However, for more complex documents, it is better to convert them to EPUB first using a free online service such as Zamzar and then transfer them to your Kindle using a USB cable.
To read comics and illustrated PDFs, I use ‘Kindle Comic Converter’. It splits up the PDF into readable parts on your Kindle, saving you from having to reduce the font size so much that you can no longer read it properly. Some books even contain beautiful pictures which get preserved very well by this tool. For travel I simply email the PDF to my Kindle under the subject line ‘convert’. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than nothing.
12 Answers2025-07-11
Search is really powerful in most of these programs, but to make it that fast, by default they index every word in every book that you have. This means that if you have Indexing turned on, opening up a new book can take a few minutes and use up some battery life. But then, search is instant. I don’t know of a way to turn this off.
The reading configuration utilises a clean and modern design. For this purpose I have chosen to use almost exclusively the font ‘Amazon Sans Ember’, which is the same font used by Amazon Kindle for reading books. This font is used for menus and reading books, thus I have found it to be serenely consistent. The font size is set to 4, the bold setting is set to 0 and the text is left aligned. The brightness is set to auto and the warm light is switched off. As a day time reader, I want the highest amount of clarity and neutrality. My reading configuration is ruthlessly efficient and provides instant access to reading content, without any added style or frills. The font is so neutral that it becomes invisible, which I believe to be the highest compliment to any typeface.
10 Answers2026-07-27
I just make the text larger in the original document before creating a PDF or printing it. If it's a Word document or a web page, I view it at 150% on my computer before printing or saving it to PDF. The resulting file has larger text on the physical page, which then becomes smaller when viewed on the Kindle screen, but is still readable. This method is simple, requires access to the original document, but does not introduce any conversion artifacts or change any of the original formatting. The text is simply larger from the start.