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What's new in version 4.0.2.1
- 4.0.2
- Fixed a bug with notes, dictionary, and highlights not displaying
- Fixed a bug for missing table of contents
- Tip:
- View options are available in a book by tapping the screen and then the "Aa" icon
- More tips available at: amazon.com/help/kindleforandroid
- 4.0.0
- Redesigned library experience.
- Carousel displays recent items on the Kindle app home screen.
- Navigation panel organizes content for quick access to your Books, Documents, and Newsstand periodicals.
- Browse all your items in the Cloud or just the content downloaded on your Android device.
- Explore and download popular samples in the Kindle Store.
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Product Description
Product Description
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.
Choose from three different reading backgrounds
Reading revolutionized
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.
Easy on the eyes--and the fingers
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.
Annotations and automatic bookmarking
Search your books for key words and phrases
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.
New York Times bestsellers, starting at $9.99
Read everywhere with Whispersync
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.
Books in 60 seconds
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.
Massive selection
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.
Low book prices
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.
Try before you buy
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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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
626 of 779 people found the following review helpful
By G. Argov
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.
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.
106 of 129 people found the following review helpful
By blahblahblah
"Fixes a crash that some customers experienced when opening the app"
maybe so, but i never had that problem with the previous version of the app and was really loving kindle on android. ever since the update (3.5.1), each time when i turn on kindle on my android phone,
- the entire phone slows down to a crawl
- screen sometimes will blank out and be unresponsive
- a dialogue appears and that asks me to either wait, or force quit
I have since uninstalled 3.5.1 and found an old version of kindle (2.0.x) and am happy to be able to read my books again.
less is more ....
maybe so, but i never had that problem with the previous version of the app and was really loving kindle on android. ever since the update (3.5.1), each time when i turn on kindle on my android phone,
- the entire phone slows down to a crawl
- screen sometimes will blank out and be unresponsive
- a dialogue appears and that asks me to either wait, or force quit
I have since uninstalled 3.5.1 and found an old version of kindle (2.0.x) and am happy to be able to read my books again.
less is more ....
483 of 608 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...
May 26, 2011
By Chuck Davis
Amazon Verified Purchase
(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.
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.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
works just fine
I haven't used it very much yet, since I have a Kindle Touch that "lives" in my purse for reading purposes. Read more
Published 4 hours ago by Lois Larson
4.0 out of 5 stars
Makes reading online easier
Not using regularly but when do I like it. I use it to read on my PC which has a bigger screen than a handheld device.
Published 9 hours ago by Mary Rimsans
1.0 out of 5 stars
Did not adapt
I tryed to get access to my Nexues 7 tablet thru here and it did not work I tryed everything I wanted to order books but can't
Published 11 hours ago by Mary R. Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love that Amazon keeps it open
Although I didn't choose an Amazon tablet, I love the fact that they still make this reader available for all platforms.
Published 13 hours ago by DK
5.0 out of 5 stars
so much better
this app is so much better than the app /e reader that came with my tablet.there is countless books. Read more
Published 13 hours ago by stephanie
5.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to use.
I just got my tablet and I am not an expert using it yet but I really like all the things I can do on it so far with this APP such as checking out eBooks from my library and I look... Read more
Published 1 day ago by A. Theriault
5.0 out of 5 stars
works great on Galaxy Note II
I use this app to read my Kindle books on my Samsung Galaxy Note II. It works great, and the screen on my smartphone turns into a smaller Kindle - complete with Carousel. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Music Lover
3.0 out of 5 stars
Aggravated
The new update has me so flustered that sometimes I wish there was some real competition. One of my favorite features is gone... Read more
Published 1 day ago by Eric G Griffis
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's my kindle for when I don't have my kindle!
I love being able to keep up with my reading when I leave my kindle at home. The program takes me to the last known place in the book I am reading - so I quickly get right to... Read more
Published 2 days ago by momtothree
5.0 out of 5 stars
Works just like it did on my Kindle!
My husband was given an Award where he works and as a result we got 2 Android pads...so, I gave my Kindle Fire to my daughter. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Sharon Sanderson
