Amazon Kindle

Amazon Mobile LLC

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About this app

The Kindle app puts over 1.5 million books at your fingertips. It’s the app for every reader, whether you’re a book reader, magazine reader, comics reader or newspaper reader—and you don’t need to own a Kindle to use the app. Choose from over a million Kindle books or enjoy popular magazines and newspapers, such as The Economist, The Spectator, The Guardian and The Daily Mail, with high-resolution colour images.*

• Read Books — Choose from more than one million e-books including bestsellers such as Pride & Prejudice or Treasure Island and new releases and over 200,000 Kindle-exclusive titles that you won’t find anywhere else, including books by bestselling authors such as Phil Rickman.

• Use the Built-In Dictionary, Google, and Wikipedia — The Kindle app has a built-in dictionary that allows you to look up words instantly while you’re reading your e-books. Simply press and hold a word to view its definition or use the Google and Wikipedia links to get more information.

• Sync Your E-Books — The Kindle app lets you read the same book across devices and syncs automatically, so you can start reading on one device and pick up where you left off on another device. The app syncs your furthest page read, bookmarks, notes and highlights between Android, PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and any of our Kindle devices using our Whispersync technology.

• Sample Books Before You Buy — You can read the first chapter of a book before you decide to buy on Amazon.co.uk

• Customize Your Reading — Choose your preferred font size, screen brightness, background color, and orientation (portrait or landscape) for reading your books.

* Selection of e-books and e-periodicals varies by country.

By using this app, you agree to Amazon’s Conditions of Use (www.amazon.co.uk/conditionsofuse). Please see our Privacy Notice (www.amazon.co.uk/privacynotice), our Cookies Notice (www.amazon.co.uk/cookies) and our Interest-Based Ads Notice (www.amazon.co.uk/interestbasedads).

Ratings and reviews

It is a mostly reliable app. There are times I buy digital books, and I have had to completely shut down the app to get it to start downloading my book purchase. As for the pluses, it is very convenient to have multiple books with you, but not all the bulky space taking physical entities. Being able to expand passages at times helps, not having to grab my reading glasses all the time. I still love my physical books, but certain times, especially on the go, this app is very convenient.

I love that it syncs with my kindle, but the app is not great overall. The sync with Kindle is not as accurate as I want it. I had to go back to my kindle and flip through like a chapter till I reached where I was. The reason is that my phone has a smaller font making it have less pages, but my kindle has a bigger font with more pages. This confuses the sync feature. I got around this by changing the bottom right display to location in book, which I don't understand what the numbers even are.

In the history of reading books, nobody EVER opened to their bookmark and went back two pages to start reading again. Please stop rewinding pages. I'll pick up where I left off. No need to back up a page or two every single time I close the app. At least let me shut the stupid option off. You make me waste so much time on busy days where I can only read a page or three here and there. Makes sense (maybe?) in an audiobook or podcast. Completely terrible in actual reading. Cut. It. Out.

What's new

Several experience improvements and bug fixes.