Kindle 3.8.1: Read eBooks - optimized for the iPhone 5 - all my apps

categories: ! View all iPad: Leisure, iPad: FREE, iPhone: Leisure, iPhone: FREE, Mac apps | Date: 25.06.2013

This is the new trend: books are becoming more common not read on paper, but digital. Apple itself sells books in the iTunes App Store. Nevertheless, it is worthwhile to prefer to get new literature at Amazon for the Kindle. The Kindle app is available for more devices available, so that the acquired treasury of books can be universally read. The app already supports the Retina display on the new iPad.

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Digital Books is fun. The bookshelf is empty and a whole library fits into a computer, a tablet or a smartphone. Apple has recognized this trend as one of the first and introduced a book corner in the iTunes App Store early. As easy as it is to buy apps here can purchase books. They can then be on the iPhone or the iPad read if the free iBooks app is installed.

Despite sympathy for Apple: it speak more argument for Amazon. Amazon offers the Kindle to its own reader for e-books. Amazon has as Internet booksellers first hour of the best contacts to all large and small publishers in the world. Already, Amazon sold more electronic than printed books USA. More than 800,000 works can already get on Kindle. To mitzumischen here and buy digital books, the reader only needs an Amazon account, which will then be made by clicking Kindle-compatible. Thus, the payment of new e-books is a real trifle.

Amazon has done something absolutely right. There are free apps for the iPhone and iPad, for your Mac, but also for Android devices. And of course for the Kindle itself This means that it is possible to use the books once acquired more devices. In this way the reader is guaranteed future. Who knows in the end even if he remains true to Apple years later or maybe not switch to Android or zulegt a Kindle reader. Add to that the really ingenious Amazon Whispersync technology. It synchronizes several Kindle apps among themselves, as far as the last page read a book, bookmarks and tags. This means that you start a book in bed on the iPad and then on the way to work in the bus on the iPhone can read. The app always knows where the book has recently closed. This actually works properly.

The Kindle app for the iPhone and the iPad must be supplied with unique access to its own Kindle account. Then, the app shows under “Archives (All contents)” all e-books that you have already ordered from Amazon. A sign on a book cover shown here is sufficient to download the work. The WLAN can be even fat 700-page tome load in seconds. What is still clearly missing here is an automatic function that pulls itself from newly purchased books on the device. And alternatively a manual “Everything invite” feature that downloads all newly purchased books in one go.

all the books in the library after the date, the title or the author are listed sorted. The Kindle app for the Mac, it also allows to create collections, so as to divide the books into different categories. This function is missing the universal app for the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad, alas. So who has only once together 20, 50 or even 100 books, easy to lose track. Here the Mac function should be retrofitted quickly.

The e-books are presented in the overview covers, title and author. Small dots show on whether the e-book was ever opened and how far you have already read about. This is a very good tool to see as in a miniseries immediately, in which band you put on.

The digital books can be read and upright in landscape mode, the alignment of the text is fully automatic. There is no scrolling, but only complete text pages. A finger tip turns to the next page. Those who wish can adjust the font size in five steps his own reading pleasure. You can leave represent the page background in white, black or sepia and even dim the screen brightness. Who wants to read on the iPhone or the iPad, is not blinded by 50% brightness and can comfortably read in bed without having to turn on another lamp.

It is possible to set bookmarks in a book, which can be later easily control. Similarly, it is easy to detect or to have look up selected words in Google or in Wikipedia notes.

Either way, I now read for several weeks on the iPad and the iPhone have read several books and am positively electrified the benefits of this reading method. I have often sat in a waiting room unexpectedly, in a traffic jam, on a plane or on the train, and was immediately interested in a book at hand. New works available online immediately. Even in the U.S. I could buy me about the free Wi-Fi at Starbucks now a new book when my holiday reading would be exhausted. The feeling of having a real book in hand, I do not miss. Instead, I like to read, especially on the iPad now very. (Carsten disc)

Note : The Kindle App 2.9 now also allows to email documents to their own Amazon Kindle address. They end up in the Amazon Cloud and can be displayed and read in any Kindle app. It is best to PDF format.

Note : This review was written for version 2.9. The version 3.0 is already adapted to the new iPad Retina resolution by third The new version comes with a new design of the library. In addition, users can directly access the books in the cloud. Version 3.1 offers a better design and an optimized search. Version 3.2 brings to the iPad customizable page edges. From three layouts, the reader can “be” select layout. Important text passages can be marked better now. And there is an improved brightness control. Version 3.3 adapts the app to the iPhone iOS 6 and the 5th Version 3.4 brings a new font. Version 3.5 includes “X-Ray for books.” One can see into the interior of the books etc and learn more about important characters and settings. Many bugs have been fixed. Collections are still missing. Version 3.6 allows the marking in several colors. Anyone who has read a book, this is now the same post on Facebook and Twitter. In addition, the brightness setting is now stored on the sleep mode time. Version 3.7 makes the app with VoiceOver accessible for blind or visually impaired people. Version 3.8 allows you to change the line spacing. It can now also marks several pages are done away.

Kindle 3.8.1 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
providers: Amazon
size: 17.7 MB
Price: Free App
Language: German
Link to homepage Link to AppStore

Kindle 1.8.1 for Mac
Provider: Amazon
size: 33.9 MB
Price: Free App
Language: German

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