Among all the possibilities that mobile phones offer us, we find that of reading content, including electronic books. To be able to read them we do not need practically anything, just buy the book in question or download it among the thousands of free titles that exist. All smartphones include some type of already integrated system that allows us to open PDF, EPUB or any other documents.
Both in Android and in the iPhone we have these tools that avoid us having to download applications or complicate ourselves excessively. But in addition to this we have other needs such as trying to eliminate colors, a serious problem that prevents us from seeing the mobile as if it were an electronic book reader , which we are going to teach you to achieve.
Convert an Android mobile into an e-book reader
Since the arrival of Android 10, smartphones with the most widespread operating system have endless functions that allow us to take advantage of them whenever we want. In order to use the screen as if it were an electronic book reader we also have an option and it is very simple to carry out.
- We will start by accessing the Settings of our smartphone.
- Then we go to the Digital Wellbeing section.
- And then we select the rest mode.
- Among the options that there are, we are going to touch on customize.
- Finally we activate the grayscale mode .
Now in the same tab we will only have to choose a predetermined time and put the time when we usually read or modify it whenever we need it. To deactivate it, we will only have to lower the notification curtain and choose the option to deactivate pro now.
Steps to transform an iPhone into a book reader
Apple was not going to be less and it also has a valid alternative for when we want to read books on our mobile and we do not want to be making our eyes suffer with infinite colors. This time the option is also hidden and that is why many users may not have found it.
- To begin we are going to go to the Settings section.
- Then we will go to Accessibility.
- And finally we are going to look for the option called Color filter.
- Among all the available options we will have to select gray scale.
With this option the screen of our iPhone will change the colors for the different shades of gray, making it easier to stay for minutes or even hours mining the screen of the device to read books, documents or files. We don’t need a book reader , we just need to take advantage of our mobiles.