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1. #KINDLE APP WINDOWS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS SOFTWARE#
2. #KINDLE APP WINDOWS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS PC#
3. #KINDLE APP WINDOWS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS DOWNLOAD#

If you want to escape the Amazon ecosystem, then alternatives do exist for desktop users. Alternatives To The Kindle Desktop Reader You can also share the same collection, keep your saved position and sync it across your devices, and do the same with any book annotations you make across all Kindle products. For instance, many of the accessibility features are common across all Kindle products, although the Kindle devices lack some of the more advanced features like text-to-speech. Otherwise, there really isn’t a huge amount of difference between the Kindle desktop app, Kindle mobile apps, or Kindle devices themselves. mobi eBook files using the Kindle app natively with no additional fuss. This leads to another direct advantage that the Kindle desktop app over other Kindle products. The larger screens on desktop PCs and laptops allow you to view much more text at once, which could be useful for those studying books and those who want to catch up on reading from their PC.Īmazon wants you to buy its books through its own store and, while it isn’t impossible to read non-Amazon eBooks on Kindle devices, it isn’t the easiest process-unless you’re using the Kindle desktop app. While the Kindle desktop app isn’t designed to be portable, it does have one distinct advantage over Kindle mobile apps-size. You can also use a built-in text-to-speech mode to create auto-generated audiobooks you can listen to while you work, as well as annotate your books directly-perfect for students or academics.

#KINDLE APP WINDOWS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS DOWNLOAD#

I've updated our Kindle Quick Guide with the new features and you can now download it.It has many of the features you’d expect to see from an eBook reader, including many seen on Kindle devices, offering the ability to change font and font sizes, alter page widths for better reading, as well as switch to an accessible viewing color mode.

There are now over 700,000 books available from the Amazon UK website and so it's a huge source of digital books. The new Kindle reader is a significant step towards making commercial eBooks accessible for readers with print disabilities.

#KINDLE APP WINDOWS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS SOFTWARE#

Like the standard Kindle reader, the font size can be massive (up to about 90pt), and you can change the colours (white on black, black on white, black on sepia).įor keyboard only users, there are keyboard shortcuts to navigate around the software and the eBooks.

You can't use other voices on your computer with the Kindle software, and it doesn't highlight the text as it reads. You can start, pause and stop the speech and read the current, previous or next sentences (see the list of shortcuts below). The software comes with two American voices - one male and one female - which are OK but not as good as Heather, for example. The Kindle reader software can be used to read out the text of the book, and blind readers can use Jaws or NVDA to read the menus and navigation instructions.

#KINDLE APP WINDOWS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS PC#

Kindle for PC is free software for reading Kindle eBooks on your Windows PC. The Kindle for PC Accessibility Plugin is now available for UK customers (and also for users in Australia, Canada and the U.S.). Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 31st May, 2011