I exploit this secret Kindle format in 4 oddly particular situations

Whereas scrolling TikTok a number 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 typically go unused. Panorama mode is a type of settings, and allows you to reorient a Kindle’s show 90 levels and maintain your gadget 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.

Aspect-reading

From the sofa to the seaside

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 sequence — my e-reader shall be glued to my palms till the solar rises the subsequent morning. However you will not discover me in the identical spot all evening; I like to maneuver between my chair, sofa, and mattress to get pleasure from my tales.

There’s nothing that cures insomnia higher than laying in your facet with a ebook. However I get actually aggravated holding my e-reader within the default portrait model 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 also be not form 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 towards the sofa. I took this trick on my final seaside journey, and I tore by way of novels even sooner with the brand new orientation.

When you use bigger fonts

Scale back eye pressure

Studying with an even 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. When you learn in portrait mode with a bigger font measurement, you recognize precisely what I imply.

A technique to resolve this fatigue is to learn in panorama mode. It makes your show wider fairly 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 improve the scale of your letters doesn’t suggest 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) typically comprise combined media like charts, graphs, tables, wider formatting, and so on. Do not even get me began on when it has multiple column of textual content.

Switching to panorama might not repair each format challenge, nevertheless it typically makes paperwork a lot simpler to learn. I want I had recognized about this throughout faculty 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 may not want panorama mode to your posture, font measurement, or wonky PDF format, however you do not really want a proper excuse to make use of it. When you learn each single ebook in your Kindle, you may finally hit gadget 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. Identical to venturing to a espresso store to interrupt out of my house workplace, typically novelty is the perfect 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 ebook or article I do not notably wish to learn. It is a small shift, however refreshing approach for my eyes to maneuver throughout a web page — to not point out the brand new grip in my palms.