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The predictive typing feature helped compensate for errors, but I wish the keys offered haptic feedback. Tapping one causes it to blink black for a moment, which is a bit distracting. That means you'll have access to your e-books as well as your partner's.Ĭlick to EnlargeThe Voyage's on-screen keyboard features small square keys. Coming soon, you'll be able to link two adults' accounts. You can adjust how the device determines the difficulty level of the words by moving a slider.įamily Library solves one of my biggest gripes since the beginning of e-readers: the inability to easily share content across a family. Word Wise, designed for those who are learning to read, automatically displays very short and simple definitions above difficult words.
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Tolkien, I could easily see that Bilbo Baggins Esquire dominates the book, but Gollum only appears in two sections.Īmazon plans to roll out an update this fall that will add more features to this already impressive e-reader. For example, using X-Ray when reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. X-Ray offers a CliffsNotes-like experience of a book, letting you know at a glance how often and where in a book a specific character or term appears. Amazon's Vocabulary Builder will remember what words you pressed, and at any point, you can look up the words and test yourself (or your child) with flashcards. Simply holding my finger over the button didn't advance the pages on accident.Īmazon also adds some unique features to enhance the reading experience on all its e-readers.Īs you're reading, if you press and hold on a word, a pop-up window will appear with options for the Dictionary, X-Ray and Wikipedia. It also made the e-reader comfortable to hold with one hand. You can also turn the page by tapping or swiping on the display. In the settings, you can manually adjust both the amount of pressure required to turn a page and the amount of haptic feedback you get from pressing. Page turns were instantaneous and pretty much identical to the Kindle Paperwhite.Īlthough I've always preferred buttons to tapping or swiping, I found PagePress easy to use. You can create profiles for up to four children in your family, which allows you to block access to the Kindle store, Web browser, Wikipedia and social sharing.Ĭlick to EnlargeWhen viewing Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, the Voyage offered sharper text and crisper images than either the Paperwhite or the GlowLight. FreeTime is Amazon's parental controls, extended even to e-readers. The menu button also houses a couple new additions. Within a periodical, this bar allows you to "Clip This Article" for reading later. You can sync to the furthest page read, bookmark and open notes. Within a book, the menu options include displaying book or author descriptions. Interestingly, you can also set to read in landscape mode, instead of portrait. The menu button reveals options to shop, view ads, change to List View, create a content collection, check for new items, tweak the settings and open the browser.
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MORE: 8 Biggest Tech Rip-Offs and How To Avoid Them You can swipe across either row to advance the lists of books and magazines.
The second row of thumbnail images shows book recommendations. Content can be sorted by type, title, author and most recently received. Just below the menu bar on the home page, you can toggle between your Amazon library of content in the cloud or what's on the device. This navigation bar can follow you into the content as you read it, but only as a drop-down menu when you tap the top of the page.
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The top bar houses a series of icons for home, back, light, shopping, search, Goodreads and settings. The home screen lists recently viewed or downloaded titles as thumbnail images of the book covers. Plus, when it's time to read in bed, the light will gradually dim itself over an hour or so, as your eyes adjust to the light and you prepare to sleep.Ĭlick to EnlargeThe Kindle's interface is as easy to navigate as always. In my well-lit living room, it auto adjusted to 9, but when I stepped outside on a bright day, the display auto-adjusted to 16. In the light's controls you can set the light to auto adjust based on the ambient light around you.
The light on the Voyage isn't just bright, it's smart.
Not only was it the brightest, but of the three, the Voyage also offered the most even lighting. Using our lightmeter, the Voyage measured a bright 496 lux, nearly identical to the GlowLight's 490 lux, and far brighter than the Paperwhite's 333 lux. Like the Paperwhite, the Voyage also uses Amazon's front-light technology, which lets you read in the dark.
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