{"id":2774,"date":"2025-04-05T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/2774\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:43:08","slug":"the-kindles-new-recaps-feature-will-catch-you-up-on-a-book-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/2774\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kindle\u2019s new Recaps feature will catch you up on a book series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Amazon is comparing a new feature for the Kindle to the \u201cPreviously on\u2026\u201d segments that TV shows frequently use. But the Kindle\u2019s Recaps feature is instead focused on book series and provides a \u201cquick refresher on storylines and character arcs\u201d before readers start the next book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/books-and-authors\/kindle-recaps-feature-ebook-series-refreshers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The short Recaps, which do include spoilers, are available to readers in the US for \u201cthousands of bestselling English language Kindle books in series you have purchased or borrowed,\u201d according to Amazon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">You can determine if a series you\u2019re reading has Recaps available by looking for a View Recaps button \u201cin the series page in your Kindle Library.\u201d It will also be available in a three-dot menu where you see a series of books grouped together in the Kindle UI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Amazon says it\u2019s being rolled out as an over-the-air update over the next several weeks, but it can also be <a rel=\"sponsored noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html?nodeId=GKMQC26VQQMM8XSW&amp;tag=theverge02-20\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded from Amazon\u2019s website<\/a> and manually installed on Kindles immediately. Amazon also plans to soon make it available on its Kindle app for iOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon is comparing a new feature for the Kindle to the \u201cPreviously on\u2026\u201d segments that TV shows frequently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[324,1685,12,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-2774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-gadgets","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114283295972363684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}