Kindle iOS app adds new features for visually impaired - tuaw.com

The Kindle iOS app ( free) was updated to version 3.7 today, bringing with it a handful of new features to make life easier for blind and visually impaired customers and to anyone who wants to review a book or read recommendations for similar books.

To help the visually impaired navigate Their libraries Kindle, the Kindle app now supplies directions via VoiceOver. Once VoiceOver is enabled for the entire device through the Settings app, Kindle not only Provides verbal directions for each button and control on the screen, but Also helps in terms of reading the books as well. Sliding a finger up or down the page reads the text one line at a time.

The “Go To” menu now accesses the powerful “Before you go …” page, very useful when you’ve finished reading the book and want to leave a review. Reviews can be made and submitted from within the Kindle app and you can share the fact that you’ve finished the book with friends via Twitter, Facebook, or Email. Tapping on the cover image for the recommended book gives readers the choice to add to que Their book wish list, get an email about the book, or download a sample of it.

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