Tips & Tricks #19: Turning Off Screen Rotation

The Kindle DX will automatically rotate the screen when you rotate your DX, so that up is always up, and you can always read what’s on your screen. (For more about how to use landscape mode, check out our previous post.)

What if you don’t want the screen to rotate?  There’s an easy way to shut it off.

Click the Text button on your DX.  It’s the button that has two capital letter As on it, one larger than the other, directly to the right of the space bar. Your Text Options window will open, and will look like this:

Text Options Screen

The “Screen Rotation” will be set to “auto” by default, which means that your screen will rotate when your DX does.  The four options to the right of it are to “lock” in your preference until the next time your DX is powered off. The options are represented by images of the DX – the little dots represent the DX’s keyboard. Use the five-way navigation button to highlight and click your choice.

If you want to turn auto-rotate back on without turning your Kindle off and back on, go through the same process and choose auto from the options menu.