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Kindle for Android

by Amazon.com

Rated: Guidance Suggested

25,409 customer ratings

Price: Free Download

Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC

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Access fine (e.g., GPS) location
Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, Wi-Fi) location

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Several experience improvements and bug fixes

Product details

Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2010
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ March 18, 2011
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Amazon.com
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004DLPXAO

Best Sellers Rank: #1,917 Free in Apps & Games (See Top 100 in Apps & Games)
- #5 in Book Readers & Players

Customer Reviews:
25,409 ratings

Developer info

Product features

Get the best reading experience available on your Android phone--no Kindle required
Buy a book from the Kindle Store optimized for your Android phone and get it auto-delivered wirelessly
Search and browse more than 850,000 books, including 107 of 111 New York Times bestsellers
Automatically synchronize your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync
Adjust text size, read in portrait or landscape mode, and lock screen orientation

Product description

Read more than 850,000 Kindle books with Amazon's free application for your Android phone--no Kindle required. Already have a Kindle? With Whispersync, you can access your library of Kindle books, notes, marks, and more.

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. Browse through various categories such as "New and Noteworthy" or "New York Times Bestsellers," or use the search field to find specific titles or authors.

Technical details

Size: 61.4MB

Version: 8.43.0.100(1.3.243053.0)

Developed By: Amazon.com ( Privacy Policy

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Application Permissions: ( Help me understand what permissions mean )

Access fine (e.g., GPS) location
Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, Wi-Fi) location
Access information about networks
Send information about completed downloads
Connect to paired bluetooth devices
Change Wi-Fi connectivity state
Manage the list of accounts in the AccountManager
FOREGROUND_SERVICE
Open network sockets
Read only access to device state
Request authtokens from the AccountManager
PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
Write to external storage
Receive message via Amazon Device
Access information about Wi-Fi networks
Broadcast sticky intents
Act as an AccountAuthenticator for the AccountManager
Access the list of accounts in the Accounts Service
Discover and pair bluetooth devices
Periodically wake device
Read from external storage
Get information about the currently or recently running tasks: a thumbnail representation of the tasks, what activities are running in it, etc
Allows an application to receive messages via Google Cloud Messaging
Restrict receipt of messages to this app only

Minimum Operating System: Android 5.0

Approximate Download Time: More than 5 minutes

Customer reviews

5 star		77%
4 star		11%
3 star		6%
2 star		2%
1 star		5%

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Toad

won't install on my Android tablet

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2021

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won't install on my Android tablet. Can't get Amazon to see my Device.

53 people found this helpful

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Brandi C

Tablet noy compatible

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2021

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I had to do a factory reset on my tablet. When I attempted to redownload the Kindle app I received a "not compatible" message. Why is this happening especially after years of having it on my tabletoriginally? Please fix this ASAP!!

44 people found this helpful

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StephenDvd

Amazon says I already own Kindle so won't let me download/install on new Galaxy android tablet

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2020

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I installed and used Kindle for many years on my Windows pc and Fire tablet. I had a lot of ( non-kindle) problems with the Fire tablet and it currently has issues with charging, I bought a Samsung Galaxy S6 android tablet and installed Kindle via the Google store. However, it had problems accessing the email address I use for Amazon account, so I used another email. Installed fine, but it thinks i am different user so can't access my books.

I went to Amazon and logged in. It says I already own kindle and won't let me download and install on new tablet. I won't be using the broken Fire tablet any more. So does that mean I can no longer use Kindle on ANY mobile device????

73 people found this helpful

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JCLoggins

Scumbag changes to the latest version of the app - update

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2020

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The latest update has made totally scumbag changes to the application

New bug introduced with 05/21 release - progress indicator keeps turning itself off

1: When I switch to a different app, to check my email for instance, and return to the app to continue reading, the app closes the book to show me the advertising on the start page.

2: When I open the app, my library does not appear, just the advertising, and I can't get to the library without clicking the home button 2 or 3 times.

3: I don't want to see "popular highlights" but I can't turn them off. When I tried to contact the help desk, I got a totally unresponsive response telling me to do what I tried to tell them wasn't working.

4: "About this Book" popup, same problem, same response.

17 people found this helpful

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Hilda S. Laboy

Good reader

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2020

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It's an excellent tablet if your main purpose is reading, which was my main purpose. But I installed a couple of games and the social media apps and sometimes it gets a little bit slow. And touch screen sometimes does not respond as suppose.

8 people found this helpful

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debby gould

I love reading my books on my Kindle. I can take them anywhere at anytime.

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2019

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The one thing I don't like I don't like about my Kindle is that I am expected to review every book. I should not be expected to do this before I go on to another book. If I like the book, I will probably buy a another book in the series or by the same author. I do not want to HAVE TO review it.

12 people found this helpful

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Nichelle

A Great App

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2016

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I absolutely love it. It has plenty of books that you would want to read again and again. Best of all you can read books on the kindle that some authors have written just for the kindle. The only thing that confuses me is when I have to go to the actual website of Amazon to get my books on kindle now. There used to be a store in the kindle app... Regardless of that, I have gotten used to the idea now and I get books on kindle this way now.

16 people found this helpful

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Donna Stricklin

Great reading app

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2020

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I like the fact that I can get books at a lower price and get them immediately. I can high light important points and even writ notes. It connects with my PC, Tablet and phone. I can read anywhere I go. Great app

10 people found this helpful

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Axen

A good book reading app

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 20, 2020

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Been using Kindle on Android phone for a good few years now .recently don't know what happened with the last update but it's stopped allowing me to download books saying there was errors.. only way to fix it was delete the Kindle app off the phone and deregister the device. And then reinstall the app on my phone and sign in again once I done this everything seems to work fine

6 people found this helpful

dogu

keeps freezing and crashing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2021

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I downloaded the Kindle for Android app on my son s android tablet because he loves reading. I also got Jules Verne's collection for him to read on the kindle app. Everytime he opens the kindle app it freezes and gives an error message that the app is unresponsive. On the off chance it opens up, the UI is terrible. It is almost impossible to navigate back to the beginning of the collection. Just a terrible app all round which I am reallt surprised. We uninstalled it at the end. Note that the version on windows is working fine, but the android version is total waste of time

4 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

Unhappy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 25, 2018

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I love reading and I love this app BUT everytime I shut down my tablet I have to delete and reinstall the app because my borrowed books from kindle are there in my library but I am told to delete and reinstall them but they then are queued and will not download, very frustrating. Please can someone help 😕

4 people found this helpful

Kindle-Kunde

Ärgerlicher Datenverlust an E-Books

Reviewed in Germany on December 5, 2019

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Absoluter Käse ist, dass einmal erworbene und bezahlte E-Books nicht permanent auf dem Gerät gespeichert bleiben - man muss dazu ständig im Amazon App-Store angemeldet bleiben.
Meldet man sich ab, muss man wieder die gesamte Bibliothek herunterladen.
Da fragt man sich wozu es mittlerweile Speichererweiterungskarten mit großer Kapazität für Tablets und Smartphones gibt.
Wenn ich die E-Books käuflich erworben habe, möchte ich auch meine komplette Bibliothek, auch offline zur Verfügung haben.
VERBESSERUNGSWÜRDIG !

22 people found this helpful

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Elchtest

Ich hasse die neue Scroll-Funktion der Kindle-App!

Reviewed in Germany on January 22, 2020

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Wie konnte ich die App nur aktualisieren!!!! Jetzt scrollen die Bücher einfach endlos. Eine Textstelle wiederzufinden - ich lege nicht oft ein Lesezeichen fest - ist unmöglich. (Zumal das Menü wirklich schwierig anzuklicken ist. Bis das mal aufgeht.....! (Das ist ja schon beim Kindle schwer - kann mich nicht erinnern, dass dies vor Jahren schon so schwierig war!)
Ich kaufe für den Kindle auch Bücher mit (farbigen) Illustrationen (Zeichenbücher) oder Comics, die möchte man natürlich nicht auf dem Kindle lesen, die lese ich mit meinem alten Samsung Tablet Tab S 2, schon weil es eine gutes Format fürs Hochkant-Lesen hat. Aber die Bücher verlieren so sehr durch dieses Endlos-Scrollen, so kaufte ich mir Emil und die Detektive. das ich eigentlich als Buch besitze, aber als E-Book ist es viel bequemer und ich wollte es immer noch einmal lesen. Griff zu als es im Angebot war. Es verliert total, das Buch-Gefühl ist völlig weg!!!!

Nein, liebe Amazon-Entwickler, so wird das nichts, ein Buch ist kein Zeitschriftentext und kein Internet! Ein E-Book ist ein Buch ist ein Buch! So werde ich keine Bücher mehr für die App kaufen. Keine Sachbücher, keine Bücher mit Illustrationen. so möchte ich meine Bücher nicht lesen. vor allem war das Umblättern in der App vorher richtig in 3-D, besser als auf meinem Paperwhite. Die Seite blätterte sich so schön um, wie in einem richtigen Buch mit Schatten auf der Buchecke beim Umblättern. Das will ich wieder zurückhaben!! Erst dann gibt es wieder mehr Sterne!!!!

17 people found this helpful

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