Kindle – Read Books, eBooks, Magazines, Newspapers & Textbooks
By AMZN Mobile LLC
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Description
Carry a library in your pocket anywhere you go. Get access to more than 3,000,000 books and audiobooks including over 850,000 Kindle exclusive titles. With the Kindle app, get your book once and read it on any device and share across your family’s devices. Choose from a wide selection of books, newspapers, and magazines from Wall Street Journal, New York Times to Reader’s Digest.
Build your own library
• Read a sample of any book before adding it to your library
• Share your books across your household with Family Library
• Get personalized recommendations with Welcome Experience
• Get popular magazines and newspapers, and even textbooks with high-resolution color images
• Go into your local library to check out an eBook, and have it delivered wirelessly to your Kindle app
Best reading tools
• Customize your reading experience with your preferred font style, font size, background color, line spacing and margin size
• Enjoy nighttime reading with adjustable screen brightness
• Easily edit or change highlight colors, and select long passages that span multiple pages
• Tap and hold text for instant definition and translations
• Search inside the book to find key ideas, characters, and locations using smart look-up, as well as background info and biographies from Wikipedia within the app with X-Ray for Books (English, German, Japanese, Chinese titles only)
• Accessibility features make it easier for blind and visually impaired readers to navigate Kindle libraries, read & interact with books, and more
Kindle exclusives
• Enjoy unlimited access to over 800,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks with Kindle Unlimited eBook Subscription
• Automatically synchronize bookmarks, annotations, and your furthest page read across devices and app with Whispersync
• Switch seamlessly between reading your Kindle book and listening to its audio companion with Whispersync for Voice
Kindle Education
• Maintain the rich formatting of your textbook, just like the print edition, with Kindle Print Replica
• Explore important terms in your textbook using X-Ray, including links to Wikipedia and YouTube content
• Make your own flashcards or auto-generate them to brush up on concepts, terms, and definitions after each chapter
Organize your reading
• Easily group your reads into custom categories with Kindle’s Collection. The sorted collections are then stored in the Cloud linked to your Amazon account
• Send PDFs or any documents to Kindle for later reading. Amazon provides free Personal Documents Service to assist with file transfers
What's New in Version 4.20
Double spread layout for comics
Fix for Cloud Library sync problems (for very large libraries this might take a few seconds)
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Customer Reviews
Ok but...
I love reading so I'm on this app daily. In general, the app is acceptable. Even though it gets frustrating when I'm searching for a book.
My complaint is that there's no way to sort out the books the way I want. Your limited to by title, by author, or recent. I wish you can customize it.
I download so many books at one time. Practically every day, I get a book. Sometimes I download a book I intend to read but then another book catches my eye and so on and so forth. Then later on, I've forgotten what that book was until another time when I'm looking for another title.
Right now you can categorize it. But you can't rank or sort it.
What I would like is that there should be a way to mark the books I want to read first. Then also mark the books I've already read. Then mark the books that I don't want to read again but don't want to delete from my library. And I also want a way to write notes on the book. Like reminders. I believe there is a way now but only when you're IN the book. It's not something you can see while your browsing the library.
It should be almost like Netflix. There's a way to sort out the movies you want to watch next. Or highlight. Or check. Right now I just have a to-do category. But within that category, you can't rank it. Which I would really prefer to do on the library screen.
Just a thought...
Addicted to my Kindle
I bought a kindle when it was first released and stopped watching my weekly TV shows. The kindle was so revolutionary because I could get just about any book anytime I wanted without the hassle of carrying multiple books around at a time.
I'm an avid reader. On average I read five to seven books a week. If the book is good, I read until I finish.
I have the kindle app on all my devices which seems to work best on my IPhone. I've noticed that a lot of the kinks have been worked out of the past couple years which is great.
I've bought a three kindle fires for all of my girls, and two paper whites for my oldest daughter. My personal models are not sold anymore. Maybe I'll treat myself to a new one later this year.
The best gift to give an avid reader.
Kindle App
My daughter got me the basic Kindle for Christmas two years ago. The only problem, it wasn't lighted. I was going through batteries for my book light like you wouldn't believe. Other than that I became addicted to my Kindle. The following year my daughter bought me a Samsung Tablet. I downloaded the Kindle app on it. I have to admit i was able to download my books a lot faster and I had light. Gone was the little book light. The next year I purchased an iPad. I down loaded the kindle app on it and my iPhone. I love reading and would be lost with out the kindle app. I can read anywhere. Now I have the Kindle app on all three of my devices. I also have Kindle Unlimited. Life is good and I have my book.
- Free
- Category: Books
- Updated: May 16, 2016
- Version: 4.20
- Size: 89.1 MB
- Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Seller: AMZN Mobile LLC
- © 2009-2016 Amazon.com, Inc. or its Affiliates.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.