Amazon launched a brand new software program replace for a number of current Kindle fashions final week. The corporate’s launch notes solely point out “efficiency enhancements, bug fixes, and different normal enhancements,” however the replace consists of notable upgrades on the subject of adjusting textual content and line spacing, enhancing legibility and accessibility for a lot of customers, as noticed by The eBook Reader.
Beforehand, these Kindles solely supplied three fundamental line spacing choices discovered beneath the “Structure” part, together with choices for adjusting the dimensions of margins. The brand new spacing choices are actually discovered by choosing the button for the “Font” part, which takes you to a devoted web page. There, you’ll now discover 4 measurement choices for adjusting line spacing, paragraph spacing, phrase spacing, and even character spacing, plus the choice to reset all of them to default settings.
Customizing the textual content and line spacing on Kindles has lengthy lagged behind the choices supplied by a few of Amazon’s rivals within the e-reader area. Nonetheless, whereas the most recent technology Kobo gadgets nonetheless supply extra measurement adjustment choices for font measurement, line spacing, and margins, they don’t supply particular controls for paragraph, phrase, and character spacing. With the most recent software program replace, these current Kindle fashions may very well be a greater possibility for customers with a visible impairment, or these coping with dyslexia.
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