The way to take a screenshot in your Kindle

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Taking a Kindle screenshot is straightforward: maintain down two diagonal corners to seize the display screen, which flashes white.
Screenshots of something might be saved on the Kindle system for sharing or reference later.
Entry the screenshots by connecting the Kindle to a pc, opening File Explorer, and retrieving them from the Kindle drive.

I am that annoying one who sends their group chat screenshots of all the things, together with (however not restricted to) the hourly forecast on my climate app, a humorous publish I noticed on Bluesky, and naturally, funny Apple Intelligence summaries from my home screen. Beforehand, I did not suppose it was attainable to share screenshots of what I used to be studying on my Kindle, however after a couple of minutes of analysis I discovered that not solely is it attainable to take a screenshot on a Kindle, but it surely’s truly fairly simple as properly, although you’ll need a pc to really entry your screenshot as soon as you’ve got taken it.

Irrespective of whether or not you wish to ship a selected passage to somebody, making an attempt to troubleshoot a technical concern, or simply need to save your favourite web page for posterity, there are many legitimate causes to take a screenshot of your Kindle, and the method takes just a few moments.

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Taking the screenshot in your system

No buttons? No drawback.

To take a screenshot of your Kindle, all it’s essential to do is faucet and maintain two opposing diagonal corners of your system display screen for just a few seconds. You possibly can faucet both the top-left and bottom-right corners, or the top-right and bottom-left corners. Then, similar to in your cellphone, you will discover that the display screen will flash white, which signifies {that a} screenshot has been efficiently taken.

Nonetheless, in contrast to your cellphone, your Kindle would not have an on-device digicam roll or file administration instrument that you should use to view screenshots, so you will have to go to your pc for the following step.

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Accessing your screenshots

Join your Kindle to your pc

With a purpose to retrieve your Kindle screenshots, you will want to attach your Kindle to a pc by way of its included USB wire. As soon as it’s plugged in, here is how PC customers can entry their screenshots.

Open File Explorer.
Choose your Kindle (it ought to seem as an exterior drive).
Discover your screenshots. They need to seem as picture recordsdata with the time and date taken because the filename.
Drag any screenshots you need to save onto your Desktop.

The method is similar for Mac customers with Kindle units that had been made earlier than 2024 (simply use the Finder instrument as an alternative of File Explorer). Nonetheless, if in case you have a current-generation Kindle (this consists of the brand new Colorsoft) you may now not simply plug your Kindle into your Mac and have it present up as an exterior drive. As an alternative, comply with this course of:

Obtain the newest model of the Send to Kindle Mac app.
Join your Kindle to your Mac by way of USB.
Open Ship to Kindle and choose Open USB file Supervisor from the highest proper nook.
Discover your screenshots. They need to seem as picture recordsdata with the time and date taken because the filename.
Drag any screenshots you need to save onto your Desktop.