If you’re a Kindle reader, you may want to listen up. A woman has shared that you may not be getting the full experience from your e-reader, so there may be some settings that you want to change.

Liv Charette demanded: “If you’ve recently got a Kindle, I’m going to need you to change these three settings immediately.”

There are so many different ways that you can enhance your reading experience on a Kindle, but she wanted to focus on these three first. They are:

1. Turn the clock on

Liv said: “First, turn on the clock. I don’t know about you, but I like to know what time it is. For some reason, Kindles always come with the clock off.

“If you’d rather just not know what time it is, and just get totally lost in a book, I love that for you. But it doesn’t work for my Type A personality.

“I’ll be so immersed in my book at night that I’ll end up reading until like 2 in the morning. So turning on the clock just helps me get my beauty sleep”.

How to apply the clock function

To turn on the clock while reading on a Kindle, open any book. Then, tap the top of the screen to open the menu.

Select the Aa icon, choose the More tab and toggle ‘Show Clock While Reading’ to on.

If you don’t do this, the clock can be viewed by swiping down from the top of the screen – but it can get a bit clunky and annoying. 

2. Pick a background

Liv urged people to “put a cute little background” on their Kindles to make the reading experience a whole lot better. Of course, you can get adorable cases, but having a nice background can make all the difference too.

The bookworm said: “While most of the screensavers are passable, I’m a much bigger fan of seeing what book I’m currently reading, because the covers are just so pretty.”

For most devices, you can do this by enabling the ‘Show Cover’ feature in your settings. You’ll be able to find it in the Screen & Brightness section.

If you have a Kindle and opted for the ads experience, you won’t be able to change your background. Instead, the ads for different books run when your Kindle is locked and not being used.

If you want to change your background to reflect the book you’re currently reading, you’ll have to pay to upgrade for no adverts. 

Depending on the specific model, a Kindle without ads can cost anything from £10 up to £40. This can also be applied retrospectively if you change your mind.

So, if you’d like to put a background on, it may be worth considering whether it’s worth the extra money. 

3. Turn on page refresh

Finally, Liv added: “While you’re at it, make sure we have page refresh turned on so we don’t get those gross little ink bleeds between pages. It’s called ghosting or something like that”.

Kindle ghosting is a common phenomenon in which faint remnants of previous pages, text, or images remain visible on the E-Ink screen.

It happens because E-Ink displays use tiny, physical ink particles that sometimes do not fully return to their original position on screen. 

It can be seriously annoying when you’re trying to read the page you’re currently on, but you can see remnants of the page you were on previously.

How to turn on page refresh

Go to Settings, then Reading Options and toggle Page Refresh on.

This forces a full-screen flash with every page turn to clear residues. It really is as easy as that!