Amazon’s Kindle e-reader is designed to mimic the experience of reading a real-life book, but with a digital screen. One obvious advantage to digital is that you as the reader have the capability to manually adjust things text size or page brightness. It is possible to increase the font size on a Kindle device, though the exact process varies depending on which Kindle you are using.
Early Generation Kindle
And now readers have the increased luxury of closing their eyes, relaxing and listening to their e-books on their phones, by using the free Classic Text-to-Speech Engine app. Things You'll Need Classic Text-to-Speech Engine for Android app. My wife did upgrade her Kindle and to our shock, Kindle discontinued the text to speech feature. The dictionary was the only reason to use a Kindle anymore, but the loss of text to speech psychologically diminished my drive to re-establish a relationship with my Kindle device. I know for sure the kindle touch and the kindle Keyboard, and the Kindle 2 have the text-to-speech feature you are looking for not sure about the kindle 1. I used to adore it and used it when driving.
Step 1
Press the 'Aa' button, next to the space bar, on the Kindle keyboard.
Step 2
Press the 'Select' key to choose a new text size. Changes will be applied immediately.
Late-Generation Kindle
Step 1
Step 2
Press the 'Menu' button to open the contextual Kindle menu.
Step 3
Adjust the font size, typeface, words per line and line spacing in the pop-up menu.
Kindle Touch
Step 1
Open an item for reading. The Kindle Touch uses contextual menus.
Step 2
Tap the top of the screen to open the toolbar. Touch the “Aa” button.
Step 3
Select “Font Size.” Select the font size you want to use.
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