{"id":207459,"date":"2026-01-28T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/4-tips-for-turning-an-old-iphone-into-a-kindle\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:20:09","slug":"4-tips-for-turning-an-old-iphone-into-a-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/4-tips-for-turning-an-old-iphone-into-a-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"4 tips for turning an old iPhone into a Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/tips-for-turning-old-iphone-into-a-kindle\/\">4 tips for turning an old iPhone into a Kindle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/tips-for-turning-old-iphone-into-a-kindle\/\">https:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/tips-for-turning-old-iphone-into-a-kindle\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-28 14:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pocket-lint.com\">www.pocket-lint.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite my love of technology, I was a staunch reader of physical books until last year. I always felt that paper books were the best way to truly disconnect, and I&#8217;ve always enjoyed collecting them. It wasn&#8217;t until I picked up my     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"208908\">first Kindle e-reader<\/span> last year that I realized just how convenient and comfortable digital reading can be.    <\/p>\n<p>While I still buy physical books, being able to instantly purchase and travel with dozens of books on my Kindle has been incredibly convenient, and it&#8217;s also helped keep my ever-growing reading backlog in check.<\/p>\n<p>One of the benefits I quickly discovered though is that Kindle e-books are, of course, not just limited to the e-reader itself. They&#8217;re also available through the     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"210330\">Kindle app<\/span>. So if I want to sneak in a quick chapter when I have time, and don&#8217;t have my Kindle on me, I can easily pick up right where I left off on my iPhone.    <\/p>\n<p>That said, compared to reading on my Kindle&#8217;s paper-like E Ink display, my iPhone&#8217;s screen is much brighter and far more distracting, making it harder to read on.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that there are solutions to this. While it&#8217;s impossible to make an iPhone screen feel exactly like reading on a Kindle, there are ways to make it much closer and more comfortable. So if you want to read Kindle books on your iPhone, or turn your old iPhone into a dedicated handheld Kindle, here are a few simple tweaks I&#8217;ve used to make the experience noticeably better.<\/p>\n<p>                                            \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    \t\t\t\t &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/tips-for-turning-old-iphone-into-a-kindle\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 tips for turning an old iPhone into a Kindle https:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/tips-for-turning-old-iphone-into-a-kindle\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-28 14:13:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.pocketlintimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/01\/kindle-app-on-iphone-hero.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207461,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207459\/revisions\/207461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}