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

- Edited - Thank you Amazon for going back to the original UI display without the scrolling book banner taking up 10% of your screen. As I said in my pre-edited review, I have been a big fan of this app for years and have spent a lot of time over the years reading from it. I'm also glad you look to keep it up to date / improve when necessary, but in future, please don't try and force changes on us without a "disable" option.

Great reading app I use on a daily basis. I find the accesability options very useful. These include the ability to change font style, size, and colour. I also like the bookmark feature, so i can continue where I left off. I do not find downloading books easy, as you can not do this straight from the Kindle book store. instead, I have to purchase the "Kindle vertion" from the Amazon e-books page. And even then, it isn't straight faward .

It looks as though the infantile reading insights dashboard has at last gone after I requested this many months ago. That's an improvement, although I am not confident that it won't reappear. There is still a problem with the app repeatedly closing despite regularly updating it. This is very poor and is never a problem with Google Play Books.

What's new

Several experience improvements and bug fixes.