Overview Reader Amazon Kindle 6: black, touch, in Russian

Appearance and screen

Since the control is completely moved on the touch screen, with all the buttons panel disappeared, and the appearance of the body can be described in two words: black, plastic. As it should be in this book, it is important not to cover, but the content.

Touch screen reader is made based on infrared sensors. This means that any touch surface, even accidentally, will serve as a signal of the command. For cold latitudes it is rather a plus: you can read on the street or in public transport, with the gloves.

Area touches on the screen well-demarcated, so that each press always calls the desired function. management skills are brought to automaticity in just a few hours.

6-inch screen E-Ink Pearl with a resolution of 800 × 600 pixels produces high quality images, allowing you to read comfortably and view pictures. No backlight: for night reading you need to spend money to upgrade equipment and purchase a separate clip.

Default Kindle page is completely updated in several occasions: when you unlock when you open a new book, or a change of the head. Better just to find the reading settings and connect the option "Update page" to carry out a full perezalivke at each time you change the page, or after a certain time accumulated between the lines "garbage" in the form of light-colored text will interfere reading.

Interface and reading

Read with the Kindle can be long and hard. Formats supported by the reader directly: AZW3, AZW, TXT, PDF, MOBI, PRC. With the conversion, you can view HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP. Battery capacity is 750 mAh. Need to charge four o'clock (if charged by connecting to a computer), and to completely use up energy - a few weeks.

Very good news - the interface in Russian. After the first turn to pass a short training course on using the reader, and further management will not cause problems, and if they cause, the user manual will always be there. The Kindle is present even explanatory dictionary of the Russian language, which you can use to search for unfamiliar words values.

For books and magazines that you bought on Amazon, available cloud storage to which the reader is connected via Wi-Fi. When there is an access point nearby, you can read the files uploaded to the device, the benefit of 4 GB of memory can hold a whole library. To make it easier to navigate the files, books can be organized into collections. Desk shows the cover of books stored on the device or in the cloud, as well as the top offers a bookstore.

text display options allow you to change the size and typeface, increase or decrease the distance between lines and select the page orientation. Offered more than enough features to customize your favorite book. Moving from books Standard: using the scroll bar, scroll through the pages, and the transitions between chapters and bookmarks, which you can manage a couple of touches.

An interesting feature - the definition of the time it takes to read. Based on your reading speed, calculates the Kindle when you reach the end of a chapter or book. Really helps to schedule the time.

Additional functions

Even at the beginning of the Kindle offers more functions: to link your account with services Facebook and Twitter, set parental controls, and connect to the network recommender Goodreads. In social networks, you can share bookmarks and view them from other users.

Parental control is implemented in two ways: You can create profiles for children, to allow them only reading books, put the problem (for example, devote 30 minutes a day book) and check it performance. A can block certain functions, such as access to the store or to the experimental browser.

By the way, about the browser. His questionable work can only be understood because it is experimental. Most of the attempts to see how it functions, has led to crash the reader.

results

At Amazon Kindle 6 has only two features for which you should pay attention to the reader: user-friendly touch screen and interface in Russian. In all other respects it is a common reader for reasonable money.