Amazon Kindle app review

Software

7 Oct 2012

Simon Handby

Our Rating :

With Amazon's app, the Kindle experience is almost as good on a smartphone or tablet as on a Kindle eReader

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While there’s nothing exceptional about the app’s interface, it does everything well, and comes without the chintz of iBooks’ faux wood and books. Like the Kobo eReading App, it’s possible to publish extracts of a text or your reading progress to Facebook, or even Twitter, but the option is hidden discretely within the menu system; there’s no pressure to share if you’d rather sit down for a quiet read, or indulge in Fifty Shades of Shame.

Kindle iPad text selection

Select bits of text and share them with your friends

All Kindle users get an email address to which they can send documents or images, and have them synchronised with all their Kindle devices. This service supports a wide range of file types, so you can use the Kindle app to view Office documents, text, HTML or PDFs as well as content bought in the Kindle store. What lifts this app above the competition, however, is its integration with Amazon’s huge store and any other Kindle devices you may have.

If you don’t mind only being able to buy content from the Kindle store, rather than independent booksellers, nothing gets close to the Kindle experience.