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

This new update changed one very important feature, which now makes finding borrowable audio books super inconvenient. The "borrow" button used to say, "read and listen now" or, "read now". This let you know if the audible version came with the borrowed book. Now, you have to download the book to see if the audible comes with it, so you end up downloading 20 books before finding one you can listen to. It makes me want to cancel my subscription. I wish they would change it back!

Loving the Kindle app. Able to get a good selection of books with my Prime membership and with the Libby app. Love that I can go from light to dark mode so easily. light mode during the day and dark for night so it isn't so bright that it bothers my husband if he is asleep. Love that I can easily increase and decrease the font size in case I do or don't have my glasses on. All around I just find it so easy to use. Love having it!!

Edited to update: It still doesn't always open to the bookmark, and now, since the last update, I have to close the app and reopen to see the progress. The app seems to be getting worse with each update. With the last 2 updates, the book does not open to the bookmark. I have to scroll ahead to find it. It's very annoying. The bookmark is there for a reason. I shouldn't have to look for it every time I open the app.

What's new

Several experience improvements and bug fixes.