![]() ![]() Sharing: You can register your Kindle Touch with your Facebook and Twitter accounts to share passages with friends and family. Even sideloaded books and PDFs-just send them to the Kindle's free email address. All notes, highlights, and bookmarks get synced across multiple devices as well with Amazon's Whispernet feature. These get saved as a text file so they are easily exportable. Notes and marks can then be viewed as a list from the menu. To add bookmarks you just have to tap the upper right corner. The on-screen keyboard works great for typing notes it is responsive and fast to react. Just hold down on a word to bring up options to add notes and highlights. Notes, Highlights, and Bookmarks: The touchscreen works well for these features. ![]() Additionally, there are three line spacing and margin settings. There are eight font sizes and three font choices, the default Caecilia font, a condensed version of Caecilia, and a generic sans serif font. Text Adjusting Options: The Kindle Touch offers the same exact font options as the earlier Kindles. However, the Touch loses landscape mode and the ability to search specific highlighted words and phrases on Wikipedia and Google (you can manually type searches for Wikipedia from the search bar). Eh.I'd rather have the option to show book covers.įor the most part the Kindle Touch has all the same ereading features as the non-touchscreen Kindles. I guess Amazon figures the touchscreen needs more spacing. The list items are more spread out on the Kindle Touch than other Kindles. The homescreen consists of the usual old boring list with sorting options for recent, author, collections, and title. The user interface on the Kindle Touch is very similar to the non-touch Kindles.unfortunetly. The touchscreen is good for navigating and using the on-screen functions, but it's nice to have the physical page-buttons and nav-controller the Kindle 4 offers too. In a way, I wish they would have combined the two. The new Kindle Touch and Kindle 4 feel more sturdy and balanced and comfortable to hold. I, for one, like the new direction Amazon is going. The overall design is a lot different than older Kindles. One-handed use with the Kindle Touch works fine while reading, being able to tap the screen with a thumb, but interacting with the Kindle Touch in other aspects requires two hands because your thumb doesn't have enough range to tap all the links on the screen. With ebooks, pinch-zooming doesn't actually zoom it brings up a quick menu that adjusts font size on the fly by increasing or decreasing the pinching motion. The zooming speed isn't as smooth as it could be it often lags and then is suddenly large or small. The function isn't greatly useful, but you can use it to zoom in on PDFs and when using the web browser. The Kindle Touch's screen also supports multitouch. The Kindle Touch uses the same infrared touchscreen technology that other ereaders like the Sony Readers, Nook, and Kobo use, which works very well for E Ink screens and performs nicely. The difference, of course, is the implementation of a touchscreen. Speaking of screen, the Kindle Touch has a 6-inch E Ink Pearl screen, just like the Kindle 4 and Kindle 3. It's not a problem but can result in more shadow effects at the edges of the screen. One thing that stands out is the fact that the screen is inset deeper than other touchscreen ereaders, nearly an eighth on an inch. The front has a slick, metallic feel just like the Kindle 4. It has a pleasant feel and adds some grip. The back of the Kindle Touch has a slight rubbery coating. Price: $99-$189 at Amazon Kindle Touch Video Review I was expecting it to blow away the Kindle 4 with the touchscreen and other added features, but I actually ended up liking the Kindle 4 a little better. It's just not as big a step forward from the other Kindles as I was anticipating. The Kindle Touch is a good ebook reader and does what it is supposed to do and is one of the best values for the $99 model. It's basically running the same Kindle interface Amazon has been using for years, minus some key features like landscape mode.ĭon't get me wrong. Same old ugly homescreen as older KindlesĪside from the touchscreen, the Kindle Touch doesn't bring any significant changes or do anything better than the non-touch Kindles.Kindle Touch 3G wireless limited to Amazon, Wikipedia, and Shelfari (with the Kindle 3 you can browse the web over 3G for free).The Kindle Touch is slightly slower than then Kindle 4 and Kindle 3 to turn pages, load ebooks, and menus.Can download DRM-free ebooks with the web browser from non-Amazon websites like Feedbooks and Baen.Supports text-to-speech, MP3 playback, and audiobooks from.Touchscreen works very well it uses infrared like the other touchscreen ereaders.Solid build quality, comfortable to hold, minimalistic design. ![]()
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