I actually want this new Kindle characteristic was...

I used to be so excited when my Kindle Colorsoft received the most recent Kindle Software program replace, as each it and the 12th Generation Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition received a helpful new characteristic: double-tap to web page flip. Although my muscle reminiscence nonetheless had me tapping the display most of the time, simply the power to show the web page by double-tapping on the machine itself (a faucet on the aspect or on the again works) was intriguing, and it made the machine really feel only a bit extra customizable.

Nonetheless, after deliberately attempting to make use of the characteristic for a short while, I really went again to tapping the display full-time. This is why.

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Unintended faucets are a ache, and you’ll’t return

You are going to need to faucet the display if you happen to by chance advance

Getting the grasp of faucets takes a minute and even as soon as I received the rhythm of tapping the again of my Kindle to show the web page, I nonetheless discovered myself by chance advancing once I did not need to, particularly once I moved unexpectedly attributable to a cat in my lap (it occurs extra typically than you suppose), or sneezed (it is allergy season, okay?) or simply tapped absentmindedly whereas studying.

That would not be such an annoyance, however as a result of you possibly can solely advance utilizing this methodology, backing up means you need to contact the display once more, which meant shifting how I used to be holding the machine on the whole. And sadly, these unintended web page turns occurred with sufficient frequency that I simply finally gave up on tapping the again of my unit and returned to the traditional method.

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It solely goes in a single path, and there isn’t any option to faucet to pick out

Although I used to be primarily taken with utilizing this new characteristic to learn, it can be used to navigate menus, sub-menus, and the Kindle bookstore. Nonetheless, in follow, it is very irritating to make use of double-tap on this space. It may solely be used to scroll down a web page, and if you wish to return up — maybe after studying a abstract within the bookstore — you will have to make use of the touchscreen once more. There’s additionally no option to double faucet to make a choice, so at finest, you will be utilizing a mixture of double-tapping and contact controls, which is totally counter-intuitive to say the least.

Sadly, though I appreciated that this new characteristic was rolled out, I ended up shortly turning it off, because the unintended web page turns and lack of ability to shortly return made this extra of a nuisance than it was price. With a view to flip this characteristic off, merely go into your Settings, choose Machine Choices, after which toggle the characteristic off. Maybe one other replace will make this extra of a usable characteristic, however proper now, I can not say I’ve gotten nearly any sensible use out of it, which is a disgrace.

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