The app, available for Android phone or tablet, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows 8 PC or tablet, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone on the Amazon Appstore can be downloaded free of cost on any smart phone, tablet or even a desktop computer. With Amazon’s Whispersync technology, users can automatically save and synchronize their furthest page read, bookmark, note and highlight across all their devices. With this technology, customers can start reading a book on one device, and pick up where they left off in case they are accessing another device.
Some of the other interesting features that users can explore with Kindle Reading App include:
• Sample Books Before Buying: Customers can read the first chapter of a book before they decide whether to buy it.
• Borrow Library Books: Customers can get an e-book delivered wirelessly to Kindle app after checking out the local library for the books which interests them.
• Look Up Words: Tap and hold any word in a book to view the word’s definition with the built-in dictionary.
• Personalize: Adjust the text size, choose background color, add bookmarks, and read in either portrait or landscape mode.
• Track Progress: Tap the screen when reading a book to see the progress indicator that shows how much of the book has been read.
• View Page Numbers: See page numbers that correspond to a book’s print edition, page numbers will help to easily cite passages and read alongside others in a book club or class. This feature is available with thousands of books in the Kindle Store.
• Search in Books: Search inside any book to find a character, topic, or section that the reader would like to revisit.
• Read Personal Documents: Create a new Send-to-Kindle e- mail address and email PDFs and other documents which will be delivered to the readers’ device and also automatically archive them in the Amazon Cloud. You can also read PDFs from Mail, Safari.
To learn more about and to download the Kindle Reading App visit www.amazon.com