When reading books, magazines, newspapers, or other items on Kindle, you can select a font size that is comfortable for you. Kindle provides a choice of eight font sizes ranging from approximately 7 to 40 points and allows you to easily change the text size while reading.

To change the font size, press the “Aa” key located on the bottom row of the keyboard and select your desired option using the 5-way controller. On the same screen, you’ll also see options to adjust the words per line and screen rotation as well as controls for Kindle’s Text-to-Speech feature.

More information about Kindle is available on the product detail page or in our Help pages here:

http://www.amazon.com/kindlesupport

I hope this helps. I ordered one today for my dad, who is recently visually impaired, and we are hopeful it will allow him to get back to reading.

I completely agree. The Kindle is not the ultimate low vision reading device. It does have some significant deficiencies. For low vision patients I do like the Amazon Kindle DX model better since its screen is bigger, thus allowing for better readability. The buttons can also be a little difficult for some. It is not a complete low vision reading device but it does provide another option for some folks. Thanks for weighing in. It would be great if Amazon provide a low vision version.

Unfortunately, most of the Kindle’s features are inaccessible to me. The fonts are so unnecessarily small that I really struggle to read them, even with a lighted magnifier. I can’t use the Kindle Store (except on my computer, which defeats the purpose of the device’s store), or the Kindle’s web browser, or the other services and games that are available for it. If someone else buys a book for me or if I buy it on Amazon.com, I can read it easily on the Kindle. So, it’s certainly not useless — but it has a long way to go before it can pass for a truly low-vision accessible device. I’d be more optimistic and less annoyed about this, except that the Kindle is no longer even remotely new and the developers are responding very slowly to the low vision and blind community’s needs. A number of colleges and universities are to thank for the accessibility features the Kindle does have so far, since they refused to use Kindle textbooks until they were made accessible to their sight- and learning-disabled students. So, now a lot of books are accessible, but the rest of the device is still not. Things will continue to improve and there are probably some visually impaired people who can benefit enough from what the Kindle is right now, but none of the 3 low-vision people in my immediate family are particularly pleased with it yet.