The most recent Kindle replace helps you to flip pages by double-tapping

Amazon has up to date Kindles with a brand new option 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 have the ability to double-tap the aspect or again of their e-reader to show pages.

"Double Faucet to Web page Flip" could be turned on within the Settings menu beneath Gadget Choices. Amazon says it really works for extra than simply turning pages. You can too use double faucets to scroll by way of your Residence and Library pages, too. Apparently, 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 also 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 may 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'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The 5.18.1 replace is rolling out now newer Kindles, just like the Kindle Colorsoft, and gadgets as outdated because the tenth era Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite.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 is going to even be out there on the final of Amazon's e-readers to have bodily buttons, the Kindle Oasis. When you don't see it in your gadget now, you may manually obtain the replace from Amazon's website and set up it your self.

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