Kindle
By AMZN Mobile LLC
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Description
The Kindle app gives users the ability to read Kindle books on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 1,000,000* books in the Kindle Store, including best sellers and new releases. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your most recent page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up where you left off on another device.
Get the best reading experience available on your Mac:
• Shop the Kindle Store for over 1,000,000* Kindle books, including New Releases. Over 610,000* of these books are $9.99 or less, including many of the New York Times Best Sellers.
• Start reading immediately with three free books: Pride and Prejudice, Treasure Island, and Aesop’s Fables. Thousands more free classics are available in the Kindle Store.
• Get free book samples – read the first chapter free before you decide to buy.
• Customize your reading experience by choosing the background color and font size.
• Instant dictionary word lookup with 250,000 entries and definitions. Select 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.
• Simply click on either side of the screen or press the arrow keys to turn pages.
• You can also read your Kindle books on your Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Voyage, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, Amazon Fire Phone, Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire HDX, iPhone, iPad, PC, Android-based device, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone 7-based device. Our Whispersync technology syncs your last page read, notes, bookmarks, and highlights across devices, so you can pick up where you left off.
* Selection and price of books in the Kindle Store may vary by country.
What's New in Version 1.12.4
Kindle for Mac 1.12.4: This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.
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Customer Reviews
Incorporate Text-to-Speech/Audiobook functionality for MACs please
It definitely would be nice to be able to have the same Text-to-Speech & Audiobook listening capabilities implemented into this app (for our MACs) in the same exact way it is available for us to use on our Kindle E-readers. I appreciate the efforts in making Kindle available for all of us to read on our MACs (if we’re ever away from our Kindle readers or don’t have them with us), and just wanted to make a suggestion which could possibly solve the dillema of when someone really wants to read a book on their Kindle but simply can’t because they are not in a position to be able to use it. When working on my MAC, it would be amazing to be able to open up the Kindle app and then listen to a book via Text-to-Speech/Audiobook just like our Kindle's are able to provide us. Anyways, thank you for all that you’ve been providing us and once again, I just wanted to provide a thought to potentially begin thinking about implementing sometime down the road. Appreciate the opportunity to give you my feedback!
Wonderful! But….
I have a kindle voyage, an iPhone, a Mac book pro, and many paperback books, and I am convinced reading on my laptop is my personal favorite. This is the best e-book platform out there. However, the “notebook” function is too limited as it can only come up as a sidebar. I would love to see the notebook full screen, but the app does not allow that, which is very frustrating when trying to read and go over long highlights and long notes in a tiny column that cannot be expanded over the page. I am aware that this can be done online, but viewing my kindle notes online is not even close to the same thing, because the color sorting that is done within the app is lost, so the highlights are no longer organized online, and the online User Interface is not even close to as aesthetic as the UI within the app. This app is great for reading, I just want to be able to see my notebook over the full page.
More bugs than a University Entymology Lab
As a college student, I like kindle books because, well, they’re cheap, I’m broke, and hey- textbooks! But this mac app is a disaster. So many bugs, app instability, and constant crashing. But what did the kindle developers expect? As of writing this review, this app hasn’t been updated since October 2015— are they even still developing this? Clearly users (like myself) get frustrated when an app is constantly breaking. UI is slow to respond, rather bulky, and a bit dated. PDF-based textbooks wth images are not very well supported, and changing the window size usually results in a poorly displayed page (i.e., too thin, text bunched together). The app gives way less than a relaxed reading experience when it comes to page display, as the slightest change will alter things like the page number, text highlighted, notes, etc. In short, many of these issues would have been solved if the app were being consistently updated. Instead I wonder whether it’s been abandoned alltogether.
- Free
- Category: Reference
- Updated: Oct 05, 2015
- Version: 1.12.4
- Size: 60.3 MB
- Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Seller: AMZN Mobile LLC
- © 2009-2015 Amazon.com, Inc. or its Affiliates.
Compatibility: OS X 10.8 or later