Amazon Announces Page Flip – A Reimagined Kindle Navigation Experience for Users

Amazon has announced Page Flip, a new feature that will allow Kindle users to easily explore books while always saving their place.

The reimagined Kindle navigation experience – as described by Amazon – will allow users to easily flip back and forth between pages to reference different parts of the book while they read.

The new feature will be delivered as part of a free, over-the-air (OTA) update to Kindle E-readers, Fire tablets, and the free Kindle app for Android and iOS.

“With Page Flip, we’ve taken inspiration from how people read print books and improved upon it,” said Chuck Moore, Vice President, Kindle.

“Page Flip makes it easier than ever to refer back to pictures in a political memoir, flip back and forth between a map and your current page in an epic fantasy series, or find passages you’ve highlighted in an investing guide,” he added.

With Page Flip, users can automatically save the page they are reading in a book. The feature also allows for a bird’s eye view of the book, and offers peta-pixel accurate thumbnails along with thumbnails of diagrams, maps, charts and layout of each page.

“As an author, I love knowing that my work is presented with fluid clarity, freeing my readers from the page shuffling that can cloud and spoil the narrative,” said Laura Hillenbrand, best-selling author of Unbroken.

“With Page Flip, books become vastly more accessible, navigable, interactive, and enthralling. As a ravenous reader and scholar, I savor the ease with which Page Flip allows me to keep thumbnails of maps and diagrams, my notes and highlighted passages, and bookmarked pages before me as I read, so that all I wish to see is accessible with the tap of a finger and my focus never has to leave the storytelling.”

Amazon introduced Kindle eight years ago, and since then, it has been inventing and introducing new features to make users’ experience better and better. Some Kindle innovations recently introduced include:

• Audible Narration: This feature is available on Alexa, Fire tablets, and the free Kindle app for iOS and Android. It allows readers to switch seamlessly between the Kindle and Audible versions of the books.
• Enhanced Typesetting: This feature offers better text justification, kerning, image positioning, drop caps, and more to help users read faster with less eyestrain.
• Sharing: This feature allows users to recommend a book to a friend. They can chat about a funny quote using Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, email, and texting, and let their friends have a free preview of the book on their tablet, phone, or PC.