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#How to use a kindle with buttons install#
#How to use a kindle with buttons download#

On a bumpy subway ride, you don’t want to be delicately balancing a $180 object on your fingers while your thumb gropes for the “next page” touch zone. Off-balance: Going along with the speed problem: moving your thumb means lessening the strength of your grip on the Kindle. But with a touchscreen, you have to move your thumb from the bezel to the screen, then either tap or execute and even longer page-turn gesture by swiping. You don’t have to move your thumb laterally at all to turn a page you just apply a tiny amount of force. The old page-turn buttons are on the bezel around the screen, so your thumb falls naturally on them. But the touchscreen is also slower than a button. That’s one thing that’s not thought about in the transition from paper to E Ink: turning a page takes much longer than pressing the “next page” button. It’s slower: This is a nitpick, but this entire article is a nitpick about a product I really think is great, so, you know, onwards! It is slower to operate a touchscreen than to press a button. But having a touchscreen as the only option doesn’t make sense: why would you opt for a control scheme that’s great for the stuff you do rarely, and not great for the stuff you do all the time? It’s also much easier to type in the on-screen keyboard. The touchscreen is great for everything except for those two commands–it’s much faster to select items in a list, for example, by tapping what you want rather than pressing the “down” arrow past all the things you don’t want. That is wrong! It doesn’t mean Kindle is a bad product–it still rules–but it could rule more, and we want it to rule more.ĩ8% of your time with a Kindle is spent reading a book, rather than shopping or browsing or adjusting settings or whatever, which means the vast majority of your navigation is two commands: page-forward and page-back. But, Amazon’s flagship Kindle, now the Kindle Paperwhite, continues a trend that very much does not rule: forcing us all to use a touchscreen to navigate an ebook.

Usually, the keyboard on your Kindle device is taken for granted, but if you spend a lot of time typing, it’s nice to have something that is not only responsive and functional but also really nice to look at.ĭon’t like our recommended keyboards? Maybe you know of a few that are better.To get it out of the way: Kindle rules. Just uncheck the newly added keyboard and it will revert back to the default one.If you don’t like the way the newly installed keyboard looks and feels, you can bring back the original keyboard pretty easily.

After you finish with that part, go into the Keyboard Language settings and select the name of the custom keyboard from the Active Keyboard Languages tab.

#How to use a kindle with buttons install#

When you install the APK, you just need to follow the instructions given to enable the keyboard.

Click on the three lines icon on the top left.

Open ES File Explorer to locate the downloaded app.

#How to use a kindle with buttons download#

Download the latest version of the app.

Open your search engine and type in the name of the keyboard app.

The keyboard is also amazing at deleting big chunks of text, as you can keep swiping the text back. It also has a night mode that will darken the colors if you are using your Kindle at night. The keyboard adapts its color scheme to the app you’re currently using. You want this one if you are more interested in the appearance of the keyboard. The app is still great and very customizable, so if you’ve had enough of Google or don’t like Gboard, you can give this one a try. Swiftkey is the runner-up, and it was once the most popular custom keyboard a few years back, only to be surpassed by Google’s superior technology and databases. The downside is that there aren’t many built-in themes, so if you are looking for more aesthetic improvements to your keyboard, you should choose from one of the other two apps. You have thousands of gifs and stickers available at the tap of a button. The app has amazing text prediction capabilities thanks to the inclusion of machine learning.

Developed by Google, this custom keyboard is the most popular, and for good reason.