Kindle for Mac – now available
Well good news for us Mac lovers out there…. (which really shouldn’t be debatable) …. Kindle for Mac is now available for download from amazon.com. It is about time, I was really tired of Amazon emailing me daily flaunting its Kindle for PC app. This means Mac users everywhere can now read books bought from Amazon on their Macbooks and iMacs. We can also now sync a book we are reading on the Kindle to the one we are reading in the Kindle for Mac application. All very handy.
Now the bad news…. the app appears to be a beta version and is pretty basic. It has a great sidebar that will let you view notes/bookmarks that you have made in a book (from your kindle), but you can’t edit or create new notes or highlights while reading in the Kindle for Mac application. You can create bookmarks, and those will sync across your different devices along with your last page read.
All in all, a good start and you should definitely download it (Free!), but I want more. Amazon.com owns Stanza which makes a really kick ass reader for iphone, they can do better than this.
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That would so kill my eyes to read books on a tiny iphone screen. Maybe I’m just spoiled to flopping longways on my couch and reading them on the 15″ screen of my old pentium 133MHz laptop though. It’s fairly useless for anything that actually requires processor speed or ram but it does text just dandy.
Buzz – I definitely do not enjoy reading on my iphone, the screen is too small. I do it when i don’t have my kindle with me, but it is rare! I don’t mind reading on my macbook tho…. kindle is just preferred!
So does this mean that if I don’t have a Kindle I could download Mac Kindle app and buy/read Kindles books on my mac? Or do you have to have a Kindle?
Yep, KC, that is exactly what it means
Its really just an ebook reader, but now people without kindles could buy Amazon DRM’d books and read them on their laptop. You can even browse/buy from within the app. The Windows version has the same ability I believe!
I don’t really care to read on my computer. I have Kindle for PC but never use it. I do use my Kindle for iPhone app all the time though.
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