Amazon Kindle Touch

The Amazon Kindle Touch provides users with an easy to hold device with clear, crisp text. The Kindle Touch allows users to purchase electronic copies of books, magazines and newspapers from Amazon and read them on a display screen that is easy on the eyes. The Kindle Touch offers a glare-free, advanced e-ink display that feels like reading words off of a piece of paper. It allows a user to easily flip through pages of a book by sliding a finger along the touch screen. It connects to Wi-Fi hotspots at home or on the road to download new content.

Design of the Amazon Kindle Touch

The design of the new Kindle Touch is light, ergonomic and compact. It offers a 6-inch screen size and weighs 7.5 ounces. The design includes a simple touch screen similar to a touch smartphone; it easily allows a user to turn pages of an e-book, take notes and shop for e-books. It uses a virtual keyboard and full touch screen display.

Available Content for this E-Reader

The Kindle Touch can download over a million e-books, audio books, newspapers and magazines from Amazon; most of these can be downloaded within 60 seconds. Amazon also allows Kindle users to download a free sample of an e-book before deciding to buy it. Users can check out an e-book from a public library.

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The Amazon Kindle Touch provides users with an easy to hold device with clear, crisp text. The Kindle Touch allows users to purchase electronic copies of books, magazines and newspapers from Amazon and read them on a display screen that is easy on the eyes. The Kindle Touch offers a glare-free, advanced e-ink display that feels like reading words off of a piece of paper. It allows a user to easily flip through pages of a book by sliding a finger along the touch screen. It connects to Wi-Fi hotspots at home or on the road to download new content.

Design of the Amazon Kindle Touch

The design of the new Kindle Touch is light, ergonomic and compact. It offers a 6-inch screen size and weighs 7.5 ounces. The design includes a simple touch screen similar to a touch smartphone; it easily allows a user to turn pages of an e-book, take notes and shop for e-books. It uses a virtual keyboard and full touch screen display.

Available Content for this E-Reader

The Kindle Touch can download over a million e-books, audio books, newspapers and magazines from Amazon; most of these can be downloaded within 60 seconds. Amazon also allows Kindle users to download a free sample of an e-book before deciding to buy it. Users can check out an e-book from a public library.

Ease of Use of the Amazon Kindle Touch

The Kindle Touch offers adjustable text to help individuals find the perfect size to help them read comfortably. In addition to flipping of the pages by swiping a finger, the EasyReach feature allows a user to tap on the screen to turn the page without swiping.

Battery Life of this E-reader

With the wireless off, the battery life of the Kindle Touch can last for up to two months at a time on a single charge; this assumes a person reads on the Kindle for half an hour each day. Even if wireless is enabled, the charge can still last for up to six weeks.

Additional Features of Kindle Touch

The Text-to-Speech feature reads words on the page to the user, even for summaries of newspaper and magazine articles. The Kindle Touch comes with Whispersync technology to synchronize a user’s last page read, bookmarks and annotations; this allows you to continue reading at the same place where you last stopped. The X-Ray feature provides all references in an e-book to particular ideas, characters and places. The Instant Translations feature can translate a word or phrase into other languages.

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