If you’re one of those who prefers accessing their Kindle collection via their Mac, it’s always a better idea to get used to the keyboard shortcuts in order to get the work done in a jiffy.
Be it browsing the application, library, using text-to-speech, while reading a book or navigating within tables, there is a keyboard shortcut for every need, making Kindle app on Mac even more accessible.
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Kindle keyboard shortcuts for Mac
Application-wide
- Open Library: Command, ALT, L
- Sync: Command R
Apple menu systems
- Kindle for Mac: Preferences: Command ,
- Kindle for Mac: Quit Kindle for Mac: Command Q
- File: Close Book: Command W
- Actions: Sync and Check for New Items: Command R
- Go: Sync to Furthest Page Read: Command R
In the library
- Move the focus of the book above the current selection: Up Arrow
- Move the focus of the book to the right of the current selection: Right Arrow
- Move the focus of the book to the left of the current selection: Left Arrow
- Move the focus of the book below the current selection: Down Arrow
- Scroll the list of books up one page: Page Up, Command, Up Arrow
- Scroll the list of books down one page: Page Down, Command, Down Arrow
- Open selected book (go to last page read): Return, Command, O
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While reading a book
- Next Page: Page Down, Command Down Arrow, Enter, Right Arrow, Space, or Down Arrow
- Previous Page: Shift Enter, Shift Space, Page Up, Command Up Arrow, Left Arrow, or Up Arrow
- Back: Delete, Backspace
- Increase font size: Command +
- Decrease font size: Command –
- Bookmark: Command D
- Open/Close Notes and Marks: Command B
- Go to Location: Command G
- Search: Command F
- Open Flashcard side panel: Command, Shift, F
- Export to Flashcards from Notebook: Command, Shift, N (when using the Notebook)
- Export Notes from Notebook: Command, Alt, E (when using the Notebook)
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While using text-to-speech
This feature is only supported with Mac OSX 10.10 or higher. To use the Kindle keyboard shortcuts for Mac, you must enable text-to-speech first.
To do that, press Command T or select the Tools menu and choose Start Text-to-Speech.
- Toggle Text-to-Speech: Command T
- Pause or resume reading: Spacebar (while in a book)
- Read the current sentence: Command S
- Read the previous sentence: Command, Shift, Up arrow
- Skip forward one sentence: Command, Shift, Down arrow
- Increase speech rate: Shift +
- Decrease speech rate: Shift –
- Toggle continuous reading: Command, Shift, C
- Text-to-Speech Read Instructions: Command I
This feature only works on eligible Kindle content. The text-to-speech language can be configured via the System Preferences on your computer.
