I take advantage of this secret Kindle structure in 4 oddly particular eventualities

Whereas scrolling TikTok a couple of 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 unbelievable options usually go unused. Panorama mode is a kind of settings, and allows you to reorient a Kindle’s show 90 levels and maintain your machine horizontally.

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

It is true that panorama mode is not some revolutionary new show setting that modifications studying as we all know it. Nonetheless, I can consider a number of particular occasions that I take advantage of (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 palms after I’ve discovered an excellent novel. Even worse is after I discover a multi-book collection — my e-reader will probably be glued to my palms till the solar rises the subsequent 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 aspect with a e book. However I get actually aggravated holding my e-reader within the default portrait type for greater than half an hour — I both have to carry it in opposition to the sofa with my prime hand and look on the reverse aspect at a barely awkward angle, or maintain it up with my backside hand and canopy a part of the display. Gravity can also be not sort to my face after I fall asleep at 3AM and the Kindle slips out of my grip.

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

For those who use bigger fonts

Scale back eye pressure

Studying with a much bigger font reduces the variety of phrases on every Kindle web page. Greater textual content takes up extra horizontal area, which suggests fewer phrases per line. Consequently, your eyes have to leap between strains extra regularly — which causes pressure over time. For those who learn in portrait mode with a bigger font dimension, you recognize precisely what I imply.

A strategy to clear up this fatigue is to learn in panorama mode. It makes your show wider quite than taller, so even with a bigger font, you will 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 improve the dimensions of your letters does not imply you must sacrifice your studying groove.

To learn PDFs or articles

From my Ship to Kindle portal

Face it: PDFs aren’t at all times clear on a Kindle. The Ship to Kindle portal does not assure a format will work nicely in slender portrait mode. PDFs (and different paperwork you may wish to learn) usually comprise blended media like charts, graphs, tables, wider formatting, and so forth. Do not even get me began on when it has multiple column of textual content.

Switching to panorama could not repair each structure concern, nevertheless it usually 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

Maintain your eyes on their toes

You won’t want panorama mode on your posture, font dimension, or wonky PDF structure, however you do not really need a proper excuse to make use of it. For those who learn each single e book in your Kindle, you may finally hit machine fatigue — one thing a contemporary new structure can alleviate.

Switching to panorama mode breaks the monotony of portrait studying. It modifications the variety of phrases per line, adjusts the margins, and makes the display really feel barely extra open. Similar to venturing to a espresso store to interrupt out of my house 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 considering 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 manner for my eyes to maneuver throughout a web page — to not point out the brand new grip in my palms.