Amazon’s newly overhauled Kindle application for Mac offers records, poke, two-column understanding and a much-improved UI. It competence even have me review e-books upon my mechanism again.

It’s funny: I used to review the lot of e-books in customer apps upon my MacBook as well as iPhone. Since I got my Kindle 3, I hadn’t read any.

Amazon was honestly delayed to move the e-book software to Macs. The PC desktop customer came initial, as well as a pared-down Mac application only in the future followed in March. Meanwhile, Barnes & Noble had already expelled a Nook desktop app for Mac simultaneously with PC.

B&N’s Mac customer offered each underline you could ask for: copy-and-paste, two-column reading, records as well as highlighting, content poke, built-in compendium, multiple viewing themes, make use of of each font upon your mechanism. I still consider it might be a many powerful e-reading application accessible upon a desktop.

Even generic readers kick Kindle’s UI. Amazon only didn’t appear serious about Mac await, or desktop readers during all.

A couple of days ago, I noticed that even yet I’d been shopping Kindle books again, I didn’t even have the Kindle app upon my Mac. I hadn’t bothered to send it over from my aged appurtenance.

So I go to Amazon’s site as well as download the application, open it up — as well as I’m astonished. The Kindle desktop app is so much better than I remember — not utterly a next to of Barnes & Noble’s app, though forever closer.

I thought I was hallucinating, or my memory was inadequate. Actually, I’d just downloaded the code brand-new app the day before it had been officially voiced.

Improved WhisperSync await equates to which I can review a book on my Kindle, open it on my Mac, and it will open to a final page review upon the Kindle. When I open a same book on a Kindle again, I have the choice to collect up where I left off possibly on a Kindle or a Mac. I actually similar to which it’s a prompt on a Kindle, rather than than an automatic sync; on a desktop as well, I can toggle between final page review on Kindle or final page review upon Mac, though it’s the menu option rather than than the prompt.

Just since Amazon’s eventually removing serious about the Mac doesn’t mean it’s neglecting program updates for a Kindle; only a week after the 3.02 firmware update graduated from beta, Amazon’s charity the 3.03 chronicle for download as the preview recover.

As you competence theory from its chronicle series, it’s the minor recover, offering a little opening improvements (moderately faster page syncing as well as page turns, often as well as reportedly plugging a little security gaps. 3.02 seemed to urge a Kindle’s performance in direct sunlight. 3.03 is download-only for right away, though will be accessible as an over-the-air refurbish soon, substantially in a couple of weeks.

Kindle for Mac — Read Kindle eBooks upon your Mac [Amazon.com]