Tap anywhere on the screen and the app will bring up a number of options, including a control bar along the top edge: Not everyone likes to read that way, so here’s how you change it… Tap on the book you’re reading - The Dead Assassin in my case - and it’ll open you right to the current page:Īs you can see from the edges of the image, I have small text, narrow margins and narrow leading (inter-line spacing) to fit lots of content on a screen and minimize my page turns. A handy way to see how far you are in the book! That’s the book I’m readying and I’m at 19%. Notice the top left book The Dead Assassin by Vaughn Entwistle, and how it has a bookmark graphic on the top right with “19%” superimposed. History and historical fiction, with a smattering of techno-thrillers. You can see what I’ve been reading lately. On the above screen you can see that new books, like Terms of Use by Scott Allan Morrison show up under New Items and can be tapped directly to read, but you can also tap on the “Books” app with the “Kindle” icon. In many of these screen captures I’ve trimmed down what isn’t relevant in the interest of space and readability, don’t be surprised if your screen lays out slightly differently. To start, open up the Kindle app on your device: Not only can you change the size of the type, you can actually change typeface in case a serif or san-serif face is more to your liking, change the leading (the space between lines) and the margins to have the electronic display be perfect for your own visual acuity and reading preferences! Sure there’s the “Large Type” editions, but an ebook reader like the Amazon Kindle is really such a win by comparison because of how much you can fine-tune your reading experience. Get a book from the local library and if the type’s too small, well, then you’ll just have to suffer. One of the great advantages of ebooks is that unlike a printed book you aren’t at the mercy of the design and layout sense of the printer.

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