Abstract
- X-Ray on Kindle reveals characters, locations, phrases, pictures and fast context contained in the ebook.
- Entry X-Ray from the in-book menu: faucet high, open stop-light menu, then choose X-Ray.
- Works offline, hyperlinks to exterior sources typically, nice for giant casts and maps.
As soon as a bookworm, all the time a bookworm. In the event you’re the identical, then you understand the ache of selecting between rereading an outdated favourite novel, beginning a brand new collection, or going to the bookstore to stack one other title atop the TBR pile. At one level or one other, you’ve got certainly picked up multiple story at a time and tried to do a tandem learn, which will get complicated quick in the event you’re mixing up one fantasy world with one other. Iron may kill fairies in Terrasen, nevertheless it does not do squat in Prythian.
Typically, you go weeks (or months… and even years) with out ending a ebook, and if you lastly decide it again up, you are utterly misplaced. You flip open to a chapter full of characters you barely bear in mind. Are they brothers, or simply greatest mates? Who’s that aspect character, and the place did she come from?
Or possibly you are totally immersed within the collection, however there are simply so many characters that maintaining observe feels unattainable. Sticky notes between pages may also help, however in the event you’re studying on a Kindle or different e-reader, you possibly can’t precisely wedge Publish-its between digital pages. Thankfully, there is a sensible characteristic that handles all of that for you — maintaining characters organized and simple to reference: X-Ray.
- Model
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Amazon
- Display
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7-inch E-ink, 300ppi, 16-level grey scale
- Storage
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16GB
What’s X-Ray on Kindle e-readers?
Seeing between the traces
X-Ray is a reference software constructed proper into your Kindle. It allows you to faucet on the title of a personality or place and immediately get contextual data on them. It even works with obscurer phrases particular to that ebook.
Typically, relying on the ebook, there’ll even be hyperlinks to Goodreads, Wikipedia, or one other exterior supply that may present extra of an index on whichever time period you select. Nonetheless, some customers point out that some books’ X-Ray characteristic have subsequent to no data whereas others function a complete index in and of itself.
As for the non-hyperlinked sources, you possibly can even entry them with out an web connection, similar to on airplane mode or out and about with out Wi-Fi. The data is saved inside the e-book itself, and authors may even go in and add, edit, or just allow X-Ray entries for his or her Kindle e-books by way of Amazon Direct Publishing.
A few of the issues a ebook’s X-Ray will present embrace:
- Biographies
- Associated passages
- Further context
- Notes that the writer added themselves
Easy methods to entry an e-book’s X-Ray
It is a bit of hidden
Similar to most of Kindle’s settings and options, X-Ray is simple to make use of and comparatively intuitive to seek out. Nonetheless, in contrast to altering the font dimension and margin sizes, X-Ray is in a unique menu. This is the best way to discover it:
- Begin inside the ebook you are at present studying. Faucet the high of the web page to tug up the highest menu.
- Faucet the stop-light menu within the higher right-hand nook.
- Faucet X-Ray.
Relying in your ebook, sure tabs will seem on the high. For instance: Notable clips, Individuals, Phrases, and Pictures populated for the prequel to Throne of Glass, known as Murderer’s Blade, by Sarah J Maas. This explicit ebook is principally a group of tales in varied locations, so it appears like there are dozens of characters to maintain observe of always, so I believed it good to make use of it to showcase the X-Ray characteristic.
The Notable clips part consists of precisely that — X-Ray pulls varied sentences and paragraphs from throughout the ebook which might be essential to the story or principal characters themselves. You should use the tiny arrows on the left and proper sides of the display to toggle by way of them, and above the quote itself, there’s a progress bar that tells you the placement of every of the quotes, in addition to the chapter or part title.
Below Individuals, you will first see the point out of characters in your present web page. Then, you possibly can scroll all the way down to see different characters within the ebook, in addition to every of their mentions. The principle character of Murderer’s Blade, Celaena Sardothien, was talked about 1,081 instances. Once I clicked her title, I received entry to tabs that confirmed me her particular person notable clips, in addition to all mentions of her title on the whole. For a principal character, this might not be as useful. Nonetheless, for a personality talked about solely a few times at the start who makes a shock look on the finish, this characteristic is extremely helpful.
Phrases is extra hit-or-miss, however for collection that characteristic completely different sorts of individuals and/or magic methods, just like the Grishaverse books by Leigh Bardugo, it is additional useful. Lastly, Pictures is one other part that can both be useful or not — some books solely have a picture for the duvet of the ebook itself. Nonetheless, in case your ebook encompasses a map at the start or finish, X-Ray is a good way to shortly reference it in the event you’re attempting to get a lay of the land — it positively helped me once I tried to grasp the logistics of Sam and Frodo’s journey to Mordor.
