How To Go To Settings On Kindle Fire

How to set upwards a new Kindle

(Prototype credit: Henry T. Casey)

If you've got a new Kindle for the holidays, or are giving one to someone, nosotros've got a helpful set of things to know most how to brand the most of your new device. And while the Kindle can be simple and easy to use, it'due south a fiddling subtle nearly some things.

Whether information technology'south the entry-level Amazon Kindle or the best kindle there is (the Kindle Paperwhite 2022), there are many things that could make your e-reading experience smoother and easier. And thankfully they're easy to explain.

Whether it'due south learning some new tricks near the modern Kindle screens, making your reading experience more than focused or removing ads from your device, we've got all the tips you need. Happy east-reading!

The Kindle app on your phone can be a huge assist

If the Kindle hardware has any existent big flaw, it'south that typing on its keyboard is bad. Digital paper screens are okay for tapping unmarried buttons, merely spelling out a whole email address and password on a slightly laggy screen is non a great feel.

And then, before yous even open up your Kindle, download the Kindle app onto your mobile phone — it can brand the setup process an utter breeze.

Yous only sign into (or create) your Amazon business relationship on your telephone in the Kindle app (iOS / Android), and so via Bluetooth your telephone can easily transmit your account data to your Kindle. As someone who reviews Kindles and other tech, and sets devices up all the time, I wish this were the standard. It doesn't even require y'all pointing your phone'due south camera at a QR code

Enable or Disable Goodreads

A lot of digital ink has been spilled over whether or not Goodreads is actually proficient. Information technology's one of Amazon'south many ways to brand reading more social and online. And to u.s.a., it's unnecessary. As Angela Lashbrook explained for OneZero (and others have explained elsewhere), Amazon'southward Goodreads is practically broken. Certain information technology has an end-of-year "Your Year In Books" wrap-upwards, but information technology's no Spotify Wrapped.

If you want a list-making app to keep track of the books you desire to read, and the ones you've read, you tin can just use your phone's notes app.

Then, when y'all're setting upwards your Kindle for the first time, think twice about if you desire a social network, with weird and rote recommendations lists, on your Kindle. The initial Kindle setup lets y'all opt-in or opt-out, simply (of form) you can ever modify your heed.

To enable or disable Goodreads:

Tap the three dots button in the pinnacle corner
Tap "Your Business relationship"
Tap "Social Networks"
Tap "Goodreads"
And follow the on-screen instructions

Disable ads

Removing Kindle ads — (Prototype credit: Amazon)

This ane's optional, merely it'southward going to help with our next tip and nosotros personally recommend information technology. Your Kindle may take come with ads on its lock screen, and it's never been a ameliorate time to remove it (again more on why beneath). Amazon charges $twenty to remove these ads, and we recall you'll be happy you did this if you lot apply your Kindle a lot.

Sign into Amazon and open your My Devices page. Then tap Kindles, and select your Kindle. Look for the Special Offers (Amazon's other way of saying Ads) section, and tap Remove Offers.

Plough on Cover on Lock Screen

The Kindle Paperwhite 2022 with dune on the cover — (Image credit: Henry T. Casey)

Once you've removed ads (or if you bought the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, which has none), yous're ready to unlock the low-key best Kindle feature. This setting, which lets you alter the lock screen to the the embrace of the book you most recently read, is kind of a no-brainer.

The merely alibi for information technology, we imagine, is if you've been reading something so saucy or vulgar that you don't want others to know about it. And no judgement for those raunchy readers. We salute your boldness, and understand your desire for privacy.

Just for everyone else? At that place'south no reason to non practise this, unless yous dearest Amazon'southward default images of typography. Information technology's a expert fashion to show off the book yous're actually reading, and recall what it was like to accept books with actual covers.

Here's how to practise it (afterwards disabling ads):

Tap the three dots push in the acme corner
Tap Device Options
Plow "Brandish Cover" on

Try out Kindle display warmth

The Kindle Paperwhite 2022 with display warmth off and on — (Image credit: Henry T. Casey)

Just like the books you choose to read, this feature is all about your personal preference. Contempo Kindles, currently the Paperwhite (2021), Paperwhite Signature Edition and Kindle Oasis, accept a display warmth setting. It's the kind of thing you lot might honey or but forget almost later trying — simply it'southward too easy to try to sleep on information technology.

And speaking of sleep, don't think this characteristic is near helping you sleep. It's not to be dislocated with blue-light filter engineering that helps your optics relax and fall asleep faster. It'south just a way to change the color of the lighting and therefore your Kindle screen.

To modify Kindle display warmth, start tap the drawer push button at the very peak of the screen (think of it every bit a wide '5'). And then, if your Kindle supports warmth, you lot'll see a calibration for Warmth, with a dot you lot can drag to the right to increment warmth.

If you want to have brandish warmth plow on and off during specific times of day, tap the Schedule button, tap the Off switch to turn it on and selection the times of solar day when you desire warmth enabled.

Borrow local library books

Amazon may not promote this feature, only the Kindle tin can borrow ebooks from your local library. Just y'all can't do it from the Kindle. Kickoff past going to overdrive.com and finding your local library, then observe a book you desire.

Then, you can bank check out the book by clicking Borrow. You may need to sign in or create an business relationship. Then, wait for a button called Read Now with Kindle. Y'all'll then be sent to Amazon'south website to cease the process.

Examination out Nighttime Mode and Bluetooth for audiobooks

The Kindle Paperwhite 2022 in dark mode — (Image credit: Henry T. Casey)

Now that you know about the drawer card at the top of the screen, it'due south a good time to try out two features yous may not know are there. Night Mode, as its proper noun suggests, enables a dark mode with white text and black background. A Dark fashion is less necessary for an due east-ink screen, but some will prefer it.

So at that place's likewise the Bluetooth toggle in the drawer menu, which you'd plough on if y'all want to listen to Audible audio books. To pair headphones or a speaker with your Kindle go to Settings (under the three dots push button), tap Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and tap Bluetooth devices.

Henry is a senior editor at Tom's Guide covering streaming media, laptops and all things Apple, reviewing devices and services for the past seven years. Prior to joining Tom'south Guide, he reviewed software and hardware for TechRadar Pro, and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Magazine. He'south also covered the wild world of professional wrestling for Cageside Seats, interviewing athletes and other manufacture veterans.