Amazon launched a new software update for a number of latest Kindle fashions final week. The corporate’s release notes only mention “efficiency enhancements, bug fixes, and different normal enhancements,” however the replace consists of notable upgrades with regards to adjusting textual content and line spacing, enhancing legibility and accessibility for a lot of customers, as spotted by The eBook Reader.
Beforehand, these Kindles solely supplied three primary line spacing choices discovered below the “Format” part, together with choices for adjusting the scale of margins. The brand new spacing choices at the moment are discovered by deciding on 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. Nevertheless, whereas the newest era Kobo units 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 newest software program replace, these latest Kindle fashions might be a greater possibility for customers with a visible impairment, or these dealing with dyslexia.