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April 16th 2021 5:26 pm
Some tech advancements seem so useful and simple that it s weird they weren t invented sooner. Famously, wheels weren t added to suitcases until 1970, despite the fact that wheels and suitcases had existed for a lot longer.
The Kindle has just rolled out one such update Kindle readers can now toggle a switch in their settings to make the cover of the book they re currently reading turn into the device s lock screen.
Simple, easy, and something users have been demanding for years, the Display Cover feature makes reading your Kindle even more like picking up the physical version.
Turning on Display Cover
Amazon adds blindingly obvious Kindle feature to make book covers your lockscreen
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Amazon Kindle owners can now set the lockscreen image to the cover of the book they’re reading. The long overdue Display Cover feature, first spotted by
Engadget, was previously only available after jailbreaking your device (and a popular motivator to do so). Amazon says that it works with “most books, magazines, comics, and Manga.”
The Display Cover feature is only supported on some Kindle devices without ads. These devices include the Kindle (8th, 10th generation), Kindle Paperwhite (7th, 10th gen), Kindle Oasis (8th, 9th, 10th gen), and Kindle Voyage (7th gen). If you can’t recall which Kindle you have then click here to identify it. Promotions on ad-supported devices can be disabled for $20, or by calling into customer support and asking
New Kindle update will let you set your current book cover as lockscreen
Amazon has released a new firmware update for Kindle that will let users set their lockscreen wallpaper for the device for the first time ever.
Sarthak Dogra | April 16, 2021 | Updated 18:47 IST
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The new firmware update brings a Display Cover feature to Kindle.
Users will be able to select the cover of their current book as the lockscreen wallpaper.
The feature has already been spotted on several Kindle units across countries.
Updates to Amazon Kindle are usually limited to the addition of new books in its library. In a different and rather desirable update, Amazon will now let you set your Kindle s lockscreen wallpaper as the cover of the book you re reading.
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