Kindle – Read Books, eBooks, Magazines, Newspapers & Textbooks
By AMZN Mobile LLC
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Description
The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 1,000,000* books in the Kindle Store plus hundreds* of newspapers and magazines. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device.
Get the best reading experience available on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch:
• Shop the Kindle Store by visiting Amazon for the largest selection of books people want to read: millions of books, including hundreds of thousands of titles that are exclusive to the Kindle Store and over 1.7 million titles that are $9.99 or less.
• Get free book samples – read the first chapter free before you decide to buy via Kindle Free Sample Search.
• Customize your reading experience by choosing margin size, line spacing, background color, font size, font style, and either portrait or landscape format.
• Tap and hold text to quickly highlight important sections, easily edit or change highlight colors, and select long passages that span multiple pages.
• Exclusive to Kindle, X-Ray lets you see the “bones of the book” and learn more about notable characters, places, and phrases with descriptions from Shelfari and Wikipedia. (English Titles Only)
• Collections: Easily categorize books, docs, and magazines with a few, easy taps.
• Instant dictionary word lookup with 250,000 entries and definitions. Tap and hold a word to view the definition. You can also use previously purchased Dictionaries, such as medical, legal, or other translation references.
• Search inside the book to find a character, topic, or section you want to revisit.
• Simply tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages.
• You can also read your Kindle books on your Kindle e-reader, Kindle Fire, PC, Mac, Android-based device, Windows Phone 8-based device, or in your web browser with Kindle Cloud Reader. Our Whispersync technology syncs your last page read, notes, bookmarks, and highlights across devices, so you can pick up where you left off.
• Read hundreds* of newspapers and magazines including The Economist, Reader’s Digest, Martha Stewart Living, and Food Network Magazine with high resolution color images. Visit the Kindle Store to subscribe to a newspaper or magazine and have each edition automatically delivered, or purchase individual issues.
• Email PDFs & other documents to your new Send-to-Kindle e-mail address and we deliver them to your device. The documents are automatically archived in the Amazon Cloud and available for re-download on your iOS or supported Kindle devices. You can also read PDFs from Mail, Safari, or by transferring them from iTunes.
• With Kindle textbooks you save up to 60% off print list prices when you buy, and up to 80% when you rent. Use the Notebook in your Print Replica textbooks to review your bookmarks, highlights, notes. Tag and filter the most important items to study.
• Accessibility features make it easier for blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libraries, read & interact with books, and more. Enable VoiceOver in your device settings to begin. A quick reference to gestures can be found under the FAQ section in settings.
* Selection and price of books and periodicals in the Kindle Store may vary by country.
What's New in Version 4.5.2
Bug fixes and stability improvements
Customer Reviews
Good but could be so much better
I love the new collections capability.
However, I hate the UI for bookmarks and notes.
It's made up of clunky blocks of texts that all blend together. I hate looking at it, it is overwhelming and makes me not want to look at it altogether. Ugh. But I use notes for discussion with my book club.
Please change notes/bookmarks to something more user friendly. Perhaps smaller squares so you can see smaller swatches of texts in each screen which would help preview and find certain notes/passages better.
And please find a way to make the notes and bookmarks look different. They are NOT the same thing and should not look the same.
Also this is an update to my review due to the iOS 8 update:
Still not liking "The Notebook" function for notes, it is still not user-friendly. I love your new widget which allows you to view current items in your library and all you have to do is tap them to open and start reading. However, I'm really annoyed that I removed some items from my device so there is only 1 book on my device but the widget still shows the 2 items that I have no intention of reading again and it is so annoying to me that I've turned off the widget. Can you please make this widget update based on what is currently in your library?
Terrible app
Terrible app. It doesn't keep track of which samples you have downloaded, so if you upgrade to a brand new iPhone or iPad, this app LOSES ALL OF YOUR SAMPLE BOOKS!! Also, this app is filled with bugs. Every time you switch back to this app from another app, your Kindle book goes COMPLETELY BLANK for a few seconds before it shows you your book again. This did NOT happen in previous versions! Also, if you're trying to sync between an iPhone and an an iPad, you're going to be disappointed because the #1 problem with the Kindle app is that when you synchronize from within a book, it ONLY SYNCHRONIZES the furthest location. It DOESN'T synchronize any of your bookmarks, notes, nor highlights! What good does it do to press the sync button from within a book if it's not actually going to sync everything! Totally annoying, because it forces the reader to LEAVE THE BOOK and go back to the main menu EVERY TIME they want to do a REAL SYNC. This makes no sense, and it burdens the reader unnecessarily.
Who needs a plain e-reader?
I love my Kindle App and it's usability with my family of Ixxx's. I have many devices and my wife and I keep a large library of books in the Kindle cloud to make life as simple for reading as the iPod did for music. We travel extensively and always have all the reading material we need in a light, shareable portable way. Love it. And we have a built in library in our home so going "e" was a big transition. I miss the smell of a well made and well printed hardcover and still add to our paper library but life marches on. I love a Grateful Dead concert but have to settle for the legacy left behind after Jerry died. The only constant is change and Kindle changed my life for the better. Thank you Jeff Bezos. Vision is a beautiful thing.

- Free
- Category: Books
- Updated: Oct 13, 2014
- Version: 4.5.2
- Size: 40.5 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Seller: AMZN Mobile LLC
- © 2009-2014 Amazon.com, Inc. or its Affiliates.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus.










