New Kindle X-Ray Feature

One feature that I really like the look of on the new Kindles is X-Ray.

X-Ray on Kindle Fire

Basically, when you are watching a movie and an actor appears, and you think "where have I seen him before", simply click pause and IMDB will pop up and give you details of any actor in that particular scene!

This is a great idea and a very neat feature, and one which I hope will be present on iOS at some point. Would be great if Apple TV had an IMDB app and the ability to do this.

X-Ray on Kindle paperwhite

The new paperwhite e-reader also has a version of X-Ray, which allows you to search through the book for certain characters or terms, and it presents a timeline where these appear in the book. So if a character who has not been mentioned for several chapters suddenly pops up, you can use X-Ray to quickly remind yourself who this character is and when they first appeared.

Again, very very neat and I like this a lot. Will be very useful for people like me who only read a couple of pages a night.

New Kindle Prices

Surprsingly, Amazon have been really quick this time to make nearly all of these new devices available to us in the UK. Sadly, the only exception so far is the new paperwhite e-reader which looks very very nice.

Kindle Fire HD - £159 in 16GB
Kindle Fire HD - £199 in 32GB
All New Kindle Fire - £129

Nice looking devices at good prices, but sorry Jeff - that iPad is still going to take some beating for me!