I exploit this secret Kindle format in 4 oddly particular eventualities

Whereas scrolling TikTok just a few weeks in the past, I found one thing spectacular: Kindle panorama mode. E-readers, being principally single-use tech, are so easy and clear that unimaginable options typically go unused. Panorama mode is a kind of settings, and allows you to reorient a Kindle’s show 90 levels and maintain your system horizontally.

I instantly rushed to the feedback. Whereas many Kindle customers have been simply as excited as I used to be, a good quantity have been confused, questioning what the massive deal was, since all panorama mode technically does is make the traces longer.

It is true that panorama mode is not some revolutionary new show setting that adjustments studying as we all know it. Nonetheless, I can consider a number of particular instances that I exploit (or wish to use) panorama mode on my Kindle. Right here they’re.

Facet-reading

From the sofa to the seashore

It is borderline unimaginable to tear my Kindle from my fingers after I’ve discovered a very good novel. Even worse is after I discover a multi-book collection — my e-reader will likely be glued to my fingers till the solar rises the following morning. However you will not discover me in the identical spot all night time; I like to maneuver between my chair, sofa, and mattress to take pleasure in my tales.

There’s nothing that cures insomnia higher than laying in your facet with a e-book. However I get actually aggravated holding my e-reader within the default portrait fashion for greater than half an hour — I both have to carry it towards the sofa with my prime hand and look on the reverse facet at a barely awkward angle, or maintain it up with my backside hand and canopy a part of the display screen. Gravity can be not sort to my face after I nod off at 3AM and the Kindle slips out of my grip.

Once you change your Kindle to panorama, holding it simply feels simpler. I am unsure what the physics are behind it, however it feels extra pure to carry the Kindle horizontally together with your prime hand braced towards the sofa. I took this trick on my final seashore journey, and I tore by novels even sooner with the brand new orientation.

If you happen to use bigger fonts

Cut back eye pressure

Studying with a much bigger font reduces the variety of phrases on every Kindle web page. Larger textual content takes up extra horizontal house, which suggests fewer phrases per line. Consequently, your eyes have to leap between traces extra continuously — which causes pressure over time. If you happen to learn in portrait mode with a bigger font dimension, you understand precisely what I imply.

A approach to resolve this fatigue is to learn in panorama mode. It makes your show wider moderately than taller, so even with a bigger font, you may match extra phrases per line. That boils all the way down to fewer textual content breaks, fewer bodily interruptions, and a extra steady studying expertise. Simply since you wish to enhance the dimensions of your letters does not imply you need to sacrifice your studying groove.

To learn PDFs or articles

From my Ship to Kindle portal

Face it: PDFs aren’t all the time clear on a Kindle. The Ship to Kindle portal would not assure a format will work effectively in slender portrait mode. PDFs (and different paperwork you may wish to learn) typically include blended media like charts, graphs, tables, wider formatting, and many others. Do not even get me began on when it has multiple column of textual content.

Switching to panorama could not repair each format problem, however it typically makes paperwork a lot simpler to learn. I want I had recognized about this throughout school when professors despatched 50-page PDFs — studying them in E Ink in panorama would’ve saved my eyes.

For a change of tempo

Preserve your eyes on their toes

You may not want panorama mode in your posture, font dimension, or wonky PDF format, however you do not really want a proper excuse to make use of it. If you happen to learn each single e-book in your Kindle, you may finally hit system fatigue — one thing a contemporary new format can alleviate.

Switching to panorama mode breaks the monotony of portrait studying. It adjustments the variety of phrases per line, adjusts the margins, and makes the display screen really feel barely extra open. Similar to venturing to a espresso store to interrupt out of my residence workplace, typically novelty is the very best motivation.

It is uncommon that I am in a studying hunch, however typically studying in panorama mode tips my mind into pondering no matter textual content I am studying is one thing new, particularly if it is a e-book or article I do not significantly wish to learn. It is a small shift, however refreshing means for my eyes to maneuver throughout a web page — to not point out the brand new grip in my fingers.