How A Kindle Can Help You Study
Believe it or not, a Kindle is not just the perfect tool for someone who loves to read. It’s actually a great tool for studying!
No Distractions
Unlike reading on your phone, laptop, or tablet, a Kindle has no distractions. Yes, your Kindle can connect to wifi, but it doesn’t have the social media apps and browsers that can easily distract you from your reading material.
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Easy On the Eyes
Unlike your electronic devices, a Kindle will not strain your eyes. Kindles have an adjustable front light that is great for reading outdoors and indoors. Kindles also do not use blue light have LCD or OLED screens. They use what is called e-paper, and reads just like physical paper.
Adjustable fonts and background
In addition to adjustable front lighting, the Kindle has customizable fonts and backgrounds that you can choose from. If you don’t like a certain font, you can change it, and make it any size you want to make it easier for you to read. You can also make your background in the colors white, sepia, or black, and even change the number of columns that the text is displayed in.
Accessible
If you have a Kindle and the Kindle app on your other electronic devices, you really only need to download one text, and you can access it on all your devices. All your notes and highlights will also be accessible on all platforms (if you have the app and have your accounts synced).
Did you know that you can also find a lot digital textbooks made available to your Kindle? This means you don’t have to bring all sorts of books everywhere with you, you just need to bring one small device!
Save Money
Books and textbooks can be expensive. But electronic formats and the Kindle versions of these reading materials are often much cheaper than physical copies. If money and budgeting is a big concern for you, then investing in a Kindle is definitely worth buying books at a much lower price.
Lightweight & Space Saving
Instead of carrying around an endless number of textbooks, you only need to bring around your Kindle. Most Kindles, depending on the type and version, have a pretty big data storage. You can download up to 32GB worth of material.
Formats compatible with Kindle
Microsoft Word (. DOC, . DOCX)
PDF (. PDF)
Text (. TXT)
Images (. JPG, . JPEG, . PNG, . BMP)
Kindle Format (. AZW, . MOBI)
Other File Types (. RTF, . PRC, . PSZ)
Send to Kindle Feature
Other than downloading books and materials straight onto your Kindle (through the Amazon store), you can send files to your Kindle. Each Kindle has a corresponding “email address” that you can set up and send files to.
So as long as you have access to internet and emailing platform, you can easily send files and reading material to your Kindle. You can also restrict the people who are allowed to send files to your Kindle, so your Kindle device is private and only able to receive things from you and your trusted group of people.
Search
In your Kindle, you can easily search terms or words through any chapter or book you want. This can make it easier for you to find concepts, topics, and definitions, as well as quotes in a book that you need to study for.
Definition
The Kindle has a built-in dictionary that if you press and hold on a word, will give you a definition of that particular word. This allows for minimal disruption of your reading and studying, so you don’t have to open a dictionary or a separate website to find out the meaning of a word you may not understand.
Highlight & Notes
The Kindle is not just for reading: you can highlight and take notes on it too. If you have the Kindle app on your electronic device, or the Kindle Fire tablet, you can color code your highlights. Once synced, you will have access to all your notes and highlights on all your devices.
Furthermore, you can even change your notes into flashcards for easier studying!
