This navigation tip for the Kindle comes under the heading of “things you can do for yourself” to make navigation easier. That means setting bookmarks for things that you know you will want to find as you read. You can set a bookmark anywhere in a book by turning down the little page corner at…
The Kindle Reading Experience
Five Tips for Navigation on the Kindle – #2: Flipper Options
by Will DeLamater
OK, so now you know how to use the Enhanced Progress Bar to jet around the book you are reading. If it is a big text, then this is an immense help. Otherwise, you are left clicking “next page” like the flipper button on a pinball machine. Once you are in the vicinity of where…
Five Tips for Navigation on the Kindle – #1: The Progress Bar
by Will DeLamater
One of the little known ways to get around the Kindle, especially if you are reading a large document, is to use the Enhanced Progress Bar. (Neat, huh?) So, how to do this? 1. Roll the scroll wheel over the Progress Bar (that line of dots across the bottom of the screen) and click. The…
Student Kindle Comment from the Twitterverse
by Will DeLamater
A recent tweet: Theres nothing better for a boring class than a Kindle : D Not exactly what we had in mind for the Kindle in education…(but it works for me!)
A Limit to Reading Blogs on the Kindle
by Will DeLamater
Recently I noted that there are some blogs that format for the Kindle beautifully and that carry content worth paying for. Stanley Fish’s Think Again blog in the New York Times is a good example. But I found that, even with this erudite and text-driven blog (as compared to Street Use, which makes its point…
Grabbing a Screen Shot on the Kindle
by Will DeLamater
I have been reading Disrupting Class on the Kindle and note that Christenson et al use a number of charts and graphs in the book. (Is this why the book costs twice the usual price for a Kindle-enabled book?) The resolution of the skinny-lined figures I’ve run across so far begged me to capture them…
Kindle Font Size and Student Reading
by Will DeLamater
The ability to read a book, a newspaper, whatever, at a congenial font size is part of what makes the Kindle such a pleasure to use. The demographics of older readers with aging eyes like my own make this a strong incentive to get involved with electronic (and configurable) text. But what about students? Research…
Font Size Chart for Kindle
by Will DeLamater
Everyone knows a couple of things about font size on the Kindle. 1) You can change it to suit your fancy and 2) the Kindle has six font sizes to choose from, more than the Sony reader. You may also know, if you follow this blog, that my persoanl favorite font size for reading is…
Page Number Versus Position on Kindle
by Will DeLamater
August 22, 2016 – Update on Page Flip. Amazon recently updated its reader software to solve one of the longest standing problems with e-reading. Formerly, it was difficult if not impossible to jump around in a book and land back at the point you began, rendering non-fiction books with lots of graphs, images, and references…
If Adults Read More on Kindle, Will Students?
by Will DeLamater
It is a commonplace now in tweets and posts about the experience of owning a Kindle that users find themselves reading more on the Kindle than they did before. That is certainly my story. I browse the Wall Street Journal every morning now, and currently have two novels going. The time I spend reading has…