What does xray mean on kindle

Using your Kindle's X-Ray is a great way to remind yourself of certain things, such as specific objects or characters you're unfamiliar with or need a little reminder on. This feature saves you time. It removes the need to trawl back through your book, trying to piece things together yourself. This is especially great when reading books set in locations you're unfamiliar with. Using X-Ray can help refine certain passages, keeping you better engaged with the story you're reading. Though it's not available on all ebooks more on that in a moment , a great benefit to X-Ray is that you don't need an internet connection to use it—you can access it anywhere, anytime.

Kindle's X-Ray feature isn't available on all ebooks, unfortunately, but it should be available on many ebooks on the Kindle Store. There are two ways you can access your X-Ray feature. The first is through option two in the previous step: open up your toolbar while you're reading your book, tap the three dots next to the search bar and select X-Ray. Another more contextual option is to select a character, location, or event in your book. If your chosen selection is featured in X-Ray, then a small description should come up, with the option to Open X-Ray if you want to delve deeper.

The latter option is perfect if you want a quick reminder of a certain character, place, or object without moving away from your book. Once you open up your book's X-Ray, you'll see a few sections. Before you explore any of these sections, you can make sure you don't spoil later parts of your book when you're on X-Ray. To do this, tap the three dots in the top-right of your screen and make sure that Show All Clips is an option.

If it isn't and you see Hide Unread Clips , then select that to keep your X-Ray venture spoiler-free. Under Notable Clips , you can scroll through memorable passages throughout your book, jump to those pages, as well as share and highlight them. Anything in these passages that brings up an X-Ray if you select them is in bold, such as characters and locations.

Under People , you can learn more about the characters in your book, helping remind you of anyone you might have forgotten. You can also see how many times they're mentioned in your book. If you've sorted this by Relevance , then you can see which characters are on your page, followed by a list of all the characters in your book. You can also sort this Alphabetically if you just want to quickly locate a certain character. Selecting a character gives you more information on that character as well as shows their notable clips.

Next to X-Ray, look for Enabled. This differs from the Wikipedia lookup tool which does require a connection.

While reading a book on your Kindle, access the toolbar by tapping at the top of the screen. Tap the Menu button on the top right and select X-Ray. Again, if X-Ray is greyed out, then the book does not support it. Just tap a tab to view the items and then sort if you like by Relevance or Alphabetical.

Tap to select one and view all of the mentions and the locations. You can also tap See More at the top for to view additional details about it.