Answers.Body: <p>If you're in full screen on Windows 10 and on a touchscreen device (2-in-1 devices) and detachable keyboard, you just touch the bottom middle of the page and a menu appears. Touch the X and you're out of full screen.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>The Kindle app must think it's on a tablet, or it's a "tablet only" app for Win 10, so it will have no visible title bar or close/minimize/maximize buttons. There are 2 ways. </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Using your finger (if a touchscreen) or mouse, "grab" the top of the Kindle app window where the title bar would normally be, and drag the window down. The app will disappear and this will close the app. </li>
  <li>or hit  the Escape key. This should also exit the app. </li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>In both cases you will likely return to your (what I call) "tablet desktop", which is different from the normal Windows desktop that has been in use for 20+ years.
  The "tablet desktop" has link to many apps, but in the bottom left (on my PC anyway) it has a link to a normal desktop you are used to. </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>This drove me nuts, too. Alt-tab will allow you to move away from the the Kindle screen, but it doesn't close it. If Kindle offers a direct keystroke to close the program, they're keeping it a secret. But here's how you can force close it: move your cursor over the "K" (for Kindle) in your Windows Task Bar. Right click and select "Close window". Adios Kindle.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>On my Win10 machine I just downloaded the kindle version amazon made for windows 7 because of all the issues I had with the version from the store. You could try using that in the future.
  <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/pc/download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/pc/download</a></p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>For my installation of Win10 I can still use alt tab or the like if I'm using a full screen application. </p>
  
  <p>Maybe that would work for you, did you get the application from the website or from the store? </p>
  
  <p>Sometimes they differ. </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I was stuck at that too but figured out: It's F11! F11 toggles in and out of full screen. Jeez...</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Swipe from the right.  Click 'Settings', 'Control Panel'.  The ctrl panel should pop up as should a bar along the bottom.  Look for the Kindle app on the bar and close it like you would normally close a program by R clicking/holding it down.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I just downloaded the Kindle app for my Windows 10 PC. When I open a book, the app takes up the entire screen. I can't see any of my other apps, and I can't figure out how to close Kindle or switch to another app. If I hit ESC, it does nothing. The only way I can get out of the book is to hit the Windows key on my keyboard, but this doesn't seem like a useful solution.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Hi just googled this query and found this thread. After several attempts on a WIN 10 laptop running Kindle App I can exit full screen by right click anywhere on screen. Simple but elusive!ing
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Title: Kindle app takes up entire screen on windows 10 and I don't know how to get out of it
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ThreadText: # Kindle app takes up entire screen on windows 10 and I don't know how to get out of it
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-07-08)
  
  I just downloaded the Kindle app for my Windows 10 PC. When I open a book, the app takes up the entire screen. I can't see any of my other apps, and I can't figure out how to close Kindle or switch to another app. If I hit ESC, it does nothing. The only way I can get out of the book is to hit the Windows key on my keyboard, but this doesn't seem like a useful solution.
  
  **Tags:** kindle, kindle-app, windows
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Hi just googled this query and found this thread. After several attempts on a WIN 10 laptop running Kindle App I can exit full screen by right click anywhere on screen. Simple but elusive!ing  
  
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  ## 7 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2020-12-05. Score: 3
  
  If you're in full screen on Windows 10 and on a touchscreen device (2-in-1 devices) and detachable keyboard, you just touch the bottom middle of the page and a menu appears. Touch the X and you're out of full screen.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2017-11-22. Score: 1
  
  The Kindle app must think it's on a tablet, or it's a "tablet only" app for Win 10, so it will have no visible title bar or close/minimize/maximize buttons. There are 2 ways.
  
  * Using your finger (if a touchscreen) or mouse, "grab" the top of the Kindle app window where the title bar would normally be, and drag the window down. The app will disappear and this will close the app.
  * or hit the Escape key. This should also exit the app.
  
  In both cases you will likely return to your (what I call) "tablet desktop", which is different from the normal Windows desktop that has been in use for 20+ years.
  The "tablet desktop" has link to many apps, but in the bottom left (on my PC anyway) it has a link to a normal desktop you are used to.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2017-02-27. Score: 1
  
  This drove me nuts, too. Alt-tab will allow you to move away from the the Kindle screen, but it doesn't close it. If Kindle offers a direct keystroke to close the program, they're keeping it a secret. But here's how you can force close it: move your cursor over the "K" (for Kindle) in your Windows Task Bar. Right click and select "Close window". Adios Kindle.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_5 on 2017-03-01. Score: 0
  
  On my Win10 machine I just downloaded the kindle version amazon made for windows 7 because of all the issues I had with the version from the store. You could try using that in the future.
  <https://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/pc/download>
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_6 on 2016-07-14. Score: 0
  
  For my installation of Win10 I can still use alt tab or the like if I'm using a full screen application.
  
  Maybe that would work for you, did you get the application from the website or from the store?
  
  Sometimes they differ.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_7 on 2018-01-23. Score: 0
  
  I was stuck at that too but figured out: It's F11! F11 toggles in and out of full screen. Jeez...
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_8**: F11 worked for me. drops out of full screen to the main view.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_9 on 2018-01-08. Score: 0
  
  Swipe from the right. Click 'Settings', 'Control Panel'. The ctrl panel should pop up as should a bar along the bottom. Look for the Kindle app on the bar and close it like you would normally close a program by R clicking/holding it down.
  
  
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