Get # Kindle Ease: Mastering the Voyage from Page to Home Screen

The Amazon Kindle in a world of digital content is the shining beacon of book lovers, where the two have merged and the technology has fulfilled its destiny. Since first appearing in 2007, the Kindle brings access to thousands of books into a form factor easily portable in a handbag or pocket. Users of Kindles can spend hours in the world of books, take a deep dive into reading your latest novel, then get lost in how to get back to the home screen of the Kindle device. This article will show you how to quit a book on your Kindle and get back to the home screen and other books waiting.

Navigating Your Kindle E-Readers

The Immersive Kindle Reading Experience

What an overarching aim for an interface to have. The Amazon Kindle was designed to make reading as comfortable and immersive reading as possible. That’s why a reader who becomes lost in a book on the Kindle is uninterrupted from her reading experience by wandering fingertips on navigation buttons and interface artefacts. And that’s why reading is so great – and some users, familiar with the tactility of physical buttons or with the touch interfaces of smartphones and tablets, are confused when they have to make their way back to the digital shelves of their Kindle’s home library.

Simple Steps to Exit a Book

It’s actually a lot easier to exit a book and jump to the home screen on your Kindle e-reader than you think. Here’s how:

• Tap with a light touch near the top of your screen to make the reading toolbar appear.
• Find the arrow pointing to the left (indicating ‘back’) that sits on the same line as the options of ‘Library’ or ‘Home’.
• Hit the back arrow, and poof, you’re back on your home screen to explore further.
• A reboot can often fix apparent non-responsiveness; if tapping the screen doesn’t work, hold down the power button for 40 seconds to do a cold reboot. This will often clear the device of temporary glitches.

Kindle App Navigation

The Desktop and Mobile Kindle Experience

The Kindle is not only surprisingly versatile in its standalone e-readers. The Kindle mobile and desktop apps allow you to slip into any corner of your digital library pretty much whenever you have a mobile device handy — that is to say, a lot of the time. Like backtracking to the Kindle’s homepage from a book, the process of returning to your place is still a bit mysterious at first.

Exiting Books on Mobile and Desktop Apps

To quit a book and go back to the Kindle mobile app home screen:

• Tap the top of your screen to reveal the reading toolbar.
• Tap the right-pointing arrow in the top left corner to go back to the home screen.
• If the app fails to respond after using the Force Touch, try quitting the app and rebooting.

For Kindle desktop app users:

• Click at the top of the page to bring up the reading-tool panel.
• Press the back arrow in the top left-hand corner and you’ll be taken back to the landing screen.
• Should the app freeze, force closing and re-opening it should solve the problem.

Kindle Unlimited: Your Literary Oasis

With your navigational chops back in hand, taking that final leap back to your Kindle’s home screen puts readers on a pathway connecting them to the latest titles available, to all of their favourite titles on the device, or off it, to checking in on their Kindle Unlimited subscription, which provides 10 books and 10 magazines per month, for a total of $10 per month. There, all those books and all those magazines are waiting.

Understanding Kindle: More Than an E-Reader

Yet even in this highly competitive e-reader market, there’s one device that’s maintained its popularity not just for its vast library of books, but for the innovative, user-centric reading experience it offers. Thanks to its e-ink display, designed to feel just like real paper, Kindle might be the best way for those who have resisted adopting digital books to finally dip their toes into the digital ocean. Even the most ardent bibliophile and the most casual reader alike will benefit from learning all the ins and outs, from navigating your library to tweaking the look and feel of your reading experience.

If you let yourself get used to the Kindle’s elegant and ergonomic design, and its helpful little interface tools, everything you do with it becomes an experience of potential discovery. So dive back into your digital library, or head off into the great wide open – a tap is all it takes to get your next literary journey started.