Description
Kindle for iPhone allows Apple iPhone and iPod touch owners to read Kindle books using a simple, easy-to-use interface. You can shop for hundreds of thousands of books at www.amazon.com/kindlestore, and wirelessly transfer the books to your iPhone or iPod touch. Enjoy Amazon’s low prices on Kindle books, including New York Times Best Sellers and most new releases for $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
With Kindle for iPhone, you can:
* Buy a Kindle book from your Mac, PC, or iPhone using a Web browser and wirelessly transfer the books to your iPhone
* Read the beginning of any book for free before you buy
* Download the Kindle books you already own for free — they are automatically backed up on Amazon.com
* Adjust the text size and add bookmarks
* Tap and hold on a word to create a note or a highlight. Whispersync will back up and synchronize annotations with your other Kindle devices
* Read in portrait or landscape mode
* Select alternate background and text colors to improve reading comfort in low light conditions
* Tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages
* Pinch to zoom images in books
Whether you have used other ebook reader or ereader applications or tried ebooks on other devices, Kindle for iPhone - offered by Amazon - is a great solution that fits in your pocket.
Kindle for iPhone also includes Whispersync, which allows you to seamlessly switch back and forth between your Kindle device and Kindle for iPhone while keeping your bookmarks and reading location synchronized between devices. Now you can easily pick up reading right where you left off on your Kindle or iPhone.
Books you purchase can also be read on Kindle and Kindle DX, Amazon’s portable readers that wirelessly download books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs to a crisp, high-resolution electronic-paper display that looks and reads like real paper.
What's New in Version 1.3
Kindle for iPhone is now available in more than 60 countries.
Customer Reviews
Great App for Kindle owners!
Have had this for some time and have two Kindles (wife and myself). This allows me to share books with my son, who does not have a Kindle but does have an iPod touch. Not great for long times spent reading (device sceeen is too small), but great for occasional reading like while waiting for a bus or an appointment.
As far as the dummy "reviewer" that complained that you "have to buy the books": WTF?
Of course you have to buy books!! How the heck else are authors supposed to make money?
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Good: this app is a great thing for Kindle users and iPhone/Touch users who want to read books on their mobile device. It seems to work very well as a reader.
The Bad: if you are a Kindle user with two devices on one account, the app does not allow you to register any Kindle e-mail device other than the primary device. What that means is that, although you can download books purchased on the account, you cannot sync bookmarks and last page read between devices (except the primary). Big bummer.
The Ugly: in trying to work out the above issue, I deregistered the Kindle app on my iPhone. Now I can't re-register it to EITHER Kindle e-mail address, and deleting and reinstalling the app does not cure the problem. In other words, the app is now completely useless to me.
Hope they fix this soon because it will be a great thing when it's working properly. I'd give it five stars if it worked as intended. Note: the problems I've encountered shouldn't affect most Kindle users and should be of no concern to iPhone/Touch-only users.
Good, but not perfect
It has the features of the kindle for reading - can sync your last-read page - etc. It lets you access any book you've bought for your kindle.
It can't:
- Look up words in a line in the dictionary
- Add notations to a section
and by FAR - the largest omission from the app description, as well as reviews I've read:
- It does NOT give you the ability to get your newspaper/magazine subscriptions. ONLY books.
The last one was worth 1 star in and of itself, and the first two another. I'm guessing the last one was due to licensing issues but it still would be my most-desired feature to get my daily paper on my iPhone.
- Free
- Category: Books
- Updated: Dec 12, 2009
- Current Version: 1.3
- 1.3 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 4.2 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Reinke LLC
- © 2009 Amazon.com, Inc. or its Affiliates.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
