Immersion reading lets you read along with your audiobook. X-ray for books is one of the cool Kindle Fire exclusive features not available on the iPad. The iPad has a very similar mode that seems to be compatible with more sites, but offers no color or font customizations. Reading mode is a neat idea, but needs to be compatible with more pages before it can be truly useful. This mode works perfectly on some pages, but even on pages where the mode was available, it pages didn't always format as they should and most of the article could be missing. Silk's reading mode converts web pages into Kindle book format, with the same font and pages color options you'd expect to see when reading a Kindle book. However, Silk's full screen mode uses more of the Fire HD's 7-inch screen as it spreads pages to its edges - a neat little extra. On the contrary, Silk feels clunkier and accessing bookmarks and history takes a few more steps than I'd like. Safari also has a more streamlined design: bookmarks and history are easily accesible and reading list can be a very useful feature. Silk on the Fire HD is sometimes even slower than on the original Fire, and usually a couple of seconds behind the iPad when loading the same page. Josh Miller/CNETįrom a speed perspective, Amazon's browser comes up short. The Fire HD, on the other hand, was all HD, all the time. Streaming through Amazon's video app, the iPad video never achieved an HD resolution.
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