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Read more than 850,000 Kindle books and over 100 different newspapers and magazines with Amazon's free application for Android devices--no Kindle required. Already have a Kindle? Whispersync technology syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across various devices.
Kindle for Android offers a number of features that take you beyond the standard reading experience. Access the table of contents through the menu button, and jump quickly to any section of the book. Search for words or phrases within the book, and look up words on Wikipedia or Dictionary.com right from the page.
There are five adjustable font sizes to suit your reading preference. You can increase the text size of your favorite book with the push of a button. If your eyes tire, simply increase the font size and continue reading comfortably. There are also three different background color options: white, black, and sepia. Read in portrait or landscape mode, and lock the screen in the orientation you prefer. Turn pages with a flick of the touchscreen or simply tap on either side of the page to move through the text.
By using your phone's keypad, you can add annotations to text, just like you might write in the margins of a book. And because it is digital, you can edit and delete your notes. You can highlight and clip key passages and bookmark pages for future use. You'll never need to bookmark your last place in the book, because Kindle remembers for you and always opens to the last page you read.
Kindle for Android makes it more convenient than ever to bring Kindle books everywhere you go--even if you don't have a Kindle. Whispersync ensures you'll never lose your place by allowing you to sync bookmarks, last page read, notes, and highlights between all of your Kindle-ready devices.
With the Kindle app for Android, you have the power to tap into the Kindle online store right from your phone. Buy an Android-optimized book from the Kindle store and have it auto-delivered wirelessly to your phone. Books you purchase can also be read on a Kindle, computer, or other Kindle-compatible mobile devices.
Search and browse more than 850,000 books, including 107 of 111 New York Times bestsellers (if you are a non-U.S. customer, book availability may vary). Shop various categories such as "New and Noteworthy" or "New York Times Bestsellers," or use the search field to find specific titles or authors. Read over 100 newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Reader's Digest with high resolution color images.
Of the 850,000 titles available in the Kindle Store, over 610,000 are $9.99 or less, including 79 current New York Times Best Sellers. For non-U.S. customers, content availability and pricing will vary.
No need to judge a book by its cover. Kindle for Android lets you download and read the beginning of books for free. Sample a new author or book--if you like what you read, simply buy and download the whole book with 1-Click, right from your phone, and continue reading. Sample length will vary by book.
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143 of 156 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely Love It!,
This review is from: Kindle for Android (App)
I don't own a Kindle, but have been using the Kindle app to read e-books on my cell phone ever since the program was released and absolutely love it. I have since also installed it on my rooted B&N Nook Color, and enjoy it even more.
This is a very convenient way to read since the program offers very stable performance, allows extensive customizations (such as changing font size and screen brightness), and remembers where in the book you last left off. I frequently use this program in the subway, it is great for when you want to relax but you don't have a cell signal to run some other programs. The real benefit of reading through the Kindle app as opposed to some alternatives is that the checkout process is lightning-fast. You can also frequently get free books for Kindle, so not only am I able to read more conveniently, but more cheaply, too! I am currently running it on my Droid 2 Global running Froyo (2.2), and have had no problems. While you can't download onto a tablet or AT&T phone through the Amazon Appstore yet, you can get this through the Android Market on those devices.
48 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
great companion to kindle,
This review is from: Kindle for Android (App)
I have the kindle & this app is great. It doesnt always sync to my kindle & you cant save to wishlist but you can read in the dark which you cant do with the actual kindle b/c its not backlit.
108 of 125 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
(v3.0.1.70) Great tablet app for Android (Motorola Xoom), BUT, with a some problems and shortcomings...,
By Chuck Davis (Tallahassee, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kindle for Android (App)
(12 of 12 people found this review helpful before I rewrote it with intent to improve. Please let me know if you still find this helpful.)
Generally speaking, this Kindle reader compares well to the competition and appears to work better than the Nook. It's features are probably just about everything a fiction reader could want, including easily accessible options to adjust the display to your liking (font size, colors, etc.), as well as to navigate, search, bookmark, and create notes. For non-fiction study and learning (e.g. studying a book on stock trading), it lacks important features (detailed under Cons, further below). For all readers, the Android version of this app has two problems (one with Whispersync, and the other with Archiving books; see details under cons). Cons for users who switch between devices: 1. Whispersync problem. If you switch between devices like I do (for me, it's between the Motorola Xoom and my iPhone), the Whispersync feature is very important. It tells Amazon the furthest point to which you've read. If you later want to pick up your reading on another device, the Kindle app will prompt whether you want to go to the "furthest read" point within the book. This is an invaluable feature, but it fails way too often, and without any way to fix it. (Examples: i. you accidentally click a Table of Contents link that takes you far into the book or to its end, as I have done by accident, ii. you click a superscript that takes you to the index, and the app fails to give a back button, then proceeds to mark the index as your "furthest read" point.) This feature has failed on my a number of times, and there is no way to reset the "furthest read" point. From then on, it becomes very tedious to page through a book and find where I left off each time I switch devices. SUGGESTION to Amazon: A simple "Set current location as 'furthest read'" option would resolve this issue. Cons for all users: 2. Unlike my iPhone's Kindle app, the Motorola Xoom app does not show which page you're on. Instead, it only reports how far you are into a book as a percentage. Cons for non-fiction readers who study to learn: 3. Cannot name bookmarks. 4. Cannot categorize/group bookmarks and notes. A folder system (just like that used for web browser bookmarks) would be great --but one collection per book; not a global (multi-book) collection. Of course, ability to re-organize --versus being stuck with the initial organization-- would be important as well. 5. Unable to archive free books. The iPhone has an Archive option, whereas the Android app does not; instead, it provides a Delete option. Archiving on the iPhone puts any book (whether it was free or not) into the Archive. In the Android version, choosing to Delete a book (whether it was free or not) results in a "Archiving book" message being shown briefly. Afterwards, if the book was a paid book, it will show up in the Archive; if it was a free book, it will disappear altogether. I spent hours downloading lots of classics last night (books by Plato, Aristotle, the founding fathers, Thoreau, etc.), only to discover that if I want to free up my Library (current reading) space, I have to delete them altogether from the app; they are now archived on the iPhone, but if I want to read them on my Xoom, I will either have to leave them in my current reading space (Library) forever, or return to Amazon's store to search for them each time I want to read or reference them and hope that they're still available.
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