Kindle for Android

The Amazon Kindle app for Android offers millions of books and magazines at your fingertips. Kindle app contains various features that take your reading experience to the next level. It provides more than 1.5 million eBooks, comics, newspapers, and magazines to read, and it also continuously updates with more content. Users of the app can choose from millions of books and magazines from different categories to read with high-resolution color images.

Kindle reading revolutionized

The app lets users access the table of contents through the menu button and jumps directly to any eBook section. One of its features is that the app supports multi-language, including English, Dutch, Chinese, French, Japanese, German, Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish. Kindle facilitates syncing content, bookmarks, highlights text, and the last page you read between the Kindle-ready devices. App users can search words and phrases within the book and magazine from its search tool. Users can look up words meaning or definitions on "Wikipedia" and "Dictionary.com" directly from the page they are reading.

Feature of Kindle app

• Users will get the best reading experience on their Android smartphones.
• It lets users buy a book from the Kindle Store, which is optimized for Android phones.
• Kindle offers to search and browse over 1.5 million eBooks, including magazines, comics, newspapers, articles, etc.
• Allows adjusting text size of content as per user need, reading content in landscape or portrait mode, and lock screen rotation.
• Kindle allows the selection of eBooks and e-periodicals based on or varies on the country.

Go beyond the paper

Kindle app lets you go beyond the paper by turning your phone into a book. Due to this, you can read whatever you want anytime and anywhere. Some of the Kindle's reading feature includes:

• Read your way: You can customize the text size, font type, margins, text alignment, and content orientation as per your need. In the app, you can choose whether to move the next pages from left to right or continuously scroll from top to bottom.
• Read eBook or other content comfortably by adjusting the brightness and background color according to your comfort day and night.
• Track your reading progress: You will know your book's complete reading progress, such as the percentage of the book you have read, actual page numbers, and how much time you left to complete the chapter or book based on your reading speed.
• Bookmark places: Bookmark the text you want to visit again, highlights contents, and take notes. You can see all your notes in one place by opening "My Notebook".

Read and sync your eBooks.

The Kindle app allows you to choose from over one million eBooks, including bestsellers, new releases, Pride & Prejudice, and Kindle-exclusive titles, which you will not find anywhere else. Also, users can read the same eBook and contents across other devices synced to the user account. The reader can start reading on one device and restart from where they left off on another device to read the content. Kindle syncs the outmost page you read, bookmarks, and others between Android, iPhone, Mac, PC, and any Kindle devices using the Whispersync technology.

Comfort for eyes and easy for fingers

The app contains five different adjustable font sizes and screen contrast to suit your reading experience. You can increase text size while reading the book or other content with a plus (+) button. If your eyes get tired by reading a book, increase the text size and adjust the screen contrast that makes your reading comfortable.

The app also offers three background color options: white, black, and sepia. Select any of the colors to set it as the background and read the content you love in the portrait or landscape orientation of the phone. Moving from one page to the next page will be performed with a flick on the touchscreen or tap on either side of the page to move previous or next page content.

Use the Built-In Dictionary, Wikipedia, and Google

Kindle app has a full-feature eBook and magazine reading app containing a built-in dictionary that helps you to look up words instantly within the app. Just press and hold on to a word to view its definition, and it shows the word's definition from "dictionary.com". You can also use Google and Wikipedia links to learn about your selected term.

Annotations and automatic bookmarking

Using your phone's keypad, add annotations to the text if you want, just like you would write on the margins of a book. Because the app is a digital platform to read the book, you can edit and delete notes you write earlier. Also, you can highlight and bookmark the page you read, for future reference. However, you don't need to bookmark the last page you read, because the app automatically does this task for you. Whenever you open the app the next time, the app always begins from the last page you read.

Read everywhere you want with Whispersync.

Kindle for Android app makes it much easier than before to bring Kindle books everywhere you travel. Even if you don't have Kindle with you, it is possible to read Kindle's content everywhere, and it is because of Whispersync. Whispersync ensures you will never lose your reading by allowing you to sync the content, including bookmarks, notes, last page read, etc., between all your Kindle-ready devices.

Books in just a few seconds

Using the Kindle app for Android, you can visit the Kindle online store straight from your Android device. Before you buy eBooks on Amazon, there has a sample of the book to read. If you like the book's content, buy an Android-optimized book you read. Kindle-store automatically delivers the book wirelessly to your phone. The books you purchase can be on Kindle, PC, or other Kindle-supported mobile devices.

Massive selection

You can search and browse over 1.5 million eBooks, including magazines, newspapers, and New York Times bestsellers, New York Times. However, the book availability may vary based on the country the user is accessing. Use the search option to find specific titles of books or authors.

Read the sample before you buy

You don't need to judge a book from its cover; read the sample of the book before you buy it. Kindle for Android allows downloading and reading a piece of a book for free to get an idea about it. The length of the sample may vary by the book. If you like the content you read, buy it and download the entire book with a single click.

How to download or read a Kindle eBook on an Android-based Smartphone or Tablet

Different phone type's user or different area code users have different ways of downloading Kindle for Android.

1. Visit the Google app store on your phone.
2. In the search box, type "Kindle" and go, and you will see a list of kindle apps there. Download and install the "Kindle for Android" app on your phone.
3. You can also download Kindle from Amazon App Store. Only US users are allowed to download this app from the Amazon app store (Amazon.com). Non-US users can download Kindle on their Android phone for their domestic Amazon website (such as UK users can download from www.amazon.uk or Indian users can download from www.amazon.in).
4. Create an account on Amazon if you don't already. If you are an Indian user accessing it from India, create an account over "Amazon.in". If you are accessing the app from a US resident, create your account at "Amazon.com".
5. Launch the Kindle app and log in with the Amazon account you created in the previous step. After login in with your account, go to the books section of the Amazon store to find and access the book you wish to read.
6. You can read a free sample of the book you wish to buy. If you like the book's content, go for it to buy.

Download Amazon Kindle for Android from Play Store.

How to read a Kindle eBook on an iPhone or an iPad

1. Open the App Store app on your iPhone or iPad devices.
2. In the search box, type "Kindle" and go, and you will see a list of kindle apps displayed there. Download and install the "Kindle app for iPhone" app.
3. Create an account on Amazon if you don't already. If you are an Indian user accessing it from India, create an account over "Amazon.in". If you are accessing the app from a US resident, create your account at "Amazon.com".
4. Launch the Kindle app and log in with the Amazon account you created in the previous step. After logging in with your account, go to the books section of the Amazon store to find and access the book you wish to read.

PROS

• Its interface provides clear viewing of eBooks or other magazine content.
• Allow changing text size and color as per your comfort reading.
• Add annotations and highlights the text contents.
• Its "Go to" feature allow you to jump directly to the page or heading you want to read.

CONS

• There has no pinch-to-zoom feature for text.