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Version 5.18.5.0.1 – August 2025

Here's what's new:

Lock screen rotation: Keep your screen in portrait or landscape mode when moving your Kindle.

Larger Interface Text: You can now change the size of the font for your Kindle’s user interface to make it easier to read. Go to the “Screen and brightness” menu in settings to try it out.

New text spacing options: You can now adjust the spacing between paragraphs, words, and characters (in addition to lines) from the Font tab in the Reading Settings ("Aa") menu.

Assistive Reader: With the Assistive Reader, you can listen to your books with Text-to-Speech and read along with synchronized real-time underlining. The Assistive Reader supports books in English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian languages.

Performance improvements, bug fixes, and other general enhancements.

Version 5.18.4.0.1 – July 2025

Notes in multiple languages: Your device now supports multilingual handwriting recognition. Each notebook can use a different language for text conversion. To set your preferred language: Open your notebook, access notebook settings and set your handwriting recognition language.

Performance improvements, bug fixes, and other general enhancements.