Description
The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, providing users the ability to read Kindle books using a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You can discover and read over 620,000 books in the Kindle Store, including the latest best sellers and new releases. You can also read your Kindle books on your Kindle, Kindle DX, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and Android-based device. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all of your devices, so you can pick up right where you left off no matter what device you are reading on.
Shop the Amazon Kindle Store:
• New! Experience Kindle Editions with Audio/Video
• More than 620,000* Kindle books available in the Kindle Store, including 109 of 112 New York Times® Best Sellers
• New York Times® Best Sellers and new releases in the Kindle Store from $9.99, and tens of thousands of the most popular classics for free, including titles like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, and Treasure Island
• Free book samples—read the first chapter for free before you decide to buy
• Amazon.com customer reviews, personalized recommendations, and editorial reviews
Get the best reading experience available on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad:
• Customize background color, font color, and font size to your preference
• Tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages
• Read in portrait or landscape mode, with the ability to lock the screen orientation
• Add bookmarks, notes and highlights. To add notes and highlights, simply tap and hold on a word
• Instant dictionary word lookup with 250,000 entries and definitions. Tap and hold a word to view the definition. Use the Google and Wikipedia links to get more information.
• Search inside the book to find a character, topic, or section you want to revisit
• View Popular Highlights: See what the Kindle community thinks are the most interesting passages in the books you're reading
• Pinch and zoom on images in books
Additional iPad features:
• New beautiful user interface tailored to the size, look, and feel of the iPad
• New Home library view with pinch, zoom and scrolling support
• New page turning animation that replicates the look of turning a page in a book. Customers who prefer a simpler, unadorned reading experience can use the default “Basic Reading Mode” option to turn off animation
• Adjustable screen brightness within the app to help reduce eye strain
Read your Kindle books anytime, anywhere:
• Kindle books can be read on your Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and Android-based device. You can download our free Kindle app on each device that you own.
• Amazon’s Whispersync technology automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all of your devices. Read on your Kindle, read some on your iPad or iPhone, and always pick up right where you left off.
Books you purchase can also be read on Kindle and Kindle DX, Amazon’s wireless reading device with free 3G wireless, that downloads books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs to a crisp, high-resolution electronic-paper display that looks and reads like real paper, even in bright sunlight.
*If you are a non U.S. customer, book availability may vary.
What's New In Version 2.2
• Instant word lookup on included dictionary with 250,000 entries and definitions
• Search inside the book on iPad
• Improved experience for searching inside the book on iPhone and iPod Touch
• Improvements to line-spacing on iPad
• Look up words on Google and Wikipedia
• Fast app switching and bug fixes on iOS4 devices
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.
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Free
- Category: Books
- Updated:Jul 29, 2010
- Current Version:2.2
- 2.2 (iOS 4.0 Tested)
- 6.1 MB
- Language:English
- Seller:Reinke LLC
- © 2010 Amazon.com, Inc. or its Affiliates.
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
