A Review of Amazon's Kindle App For Apple's iPad

Overview:

The Kindle app is designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, providing users the ability to read Kindle books in a bright, and crisp color screen. The Kindle store has over 540,000 ebooks including bestsellers and new releases. In addition, books published before 1923 and other classic books are free!

Whether you read your Kindle books on your Mac, PC, BlackBerry, Kindle, and Kindle DX; the Kindle App in conjunction with Whisper sync instantly syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all of your devices, so you can pick up right where you left off regardless of what device you happen to be reading on.

Kindle iPad App highlights:

* Over 540,000 Kindle books. 105 of 112 NY Times Best Sellers

* Cheap prices for NY Times best sellers starting at $9.99

* Free classic books like Sherlock Holmes and the Bible

* You can read the 1st chapter of very book for free.

* Bright Color Screen

* Customize background color, font, and font color

* Tap either side of the screen to turn page.

* Read in landscape or portrait mode

Fun Features not found on Kindle

* Add comments, highlights, and bookmarks.

* Zoom in and out on images.

* Home Library view

Review:

Installation

Installing the kindle App in your eye pad is easy as apple pie. Simply download the Kindle App for free and log in my signing into your account. If you currently have a physical kindle, you will find all your books in your archive ready to download with a push of a button. The Kindle iPad app will sync up your existing reading library. There's also the ability to drop multiple bookmarks, skip between them, switch animated page turns on or off, and adjust the font and background hue of your digital pages. Downloading is very simple as your books are not organized in a slow and long single page mode of the physical Kindle. You get to see the full-color book cover which you can easily navigate by sliding your fingers along your collection.

Settings

When opening the settings, you are given the choice of reading backgrounds from white, black, and sepia. Sepia gives the most "book" like experience. In addition, text size and color is fully customizable.

Note taking

Simply touch on any word or highlight any section to take notes. The virtual screen pops up. Write what you wish!

Page Turning

You feel like reading a real book since each page turn in animated just like a real book. For those who quickly want to flip through a book, there is also a "Basic Reading Mode" option than turns off the animations.

Purchasing a Book

Assuming you already have an Amazon account. Just tap in your username and password, and you'll be able to choose which Kindle device to send your book too. After you have purchased your book of choice, there's a simple button to take you back the Kindle iPad app and closes Safari.

Reading Experience

We suggest getting an anti-reflective overlay if you are reading a lot with the iPad. Even a simple overhead light will induce a glare. Otherwise, the sharp crisp and colorful screen is far beyond the physical Kindle. You can easily place bookmarks by tapping the screen for the menu bar, then just tap the upper right corner of your screen on the bookmark icon.

Conclusion

Amazon's free app and selection make it a must have if you plan to read books on your iPad. While Apple has it's proprietary iBook app, we anticipate most people will purchase their books through Amazon due to its ability to integrate with multiple devices and the physical Kindle, and mainly because of the lower prices on books as of this writing.

John Noel has been a Apple user and technology expert for over a decade. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley holding a Masters in Computer Science. Come visit his website at http://www.myappworld.com/ which helps people find the best iPad apps like Kindle for iPad as well as the latest Apple products.

Apple iPad Vs Kindle - How Does Apple's New iPad Compare?

Apple iPad is something new with much anticipation from most reviews. One of the target areas is it will be a replacement for the Kindle reader, and your phone. With this in mind apple is hoping to create a space for the iPad between your smart phone and your home computer.

The iPad weighs 1.5 pounds and is7.47 inches wide and 9.56 inches tall, it is not your phone size and when holding it for long periods it does become heavy.

iPad has a 9.7 inch captive touch screen and technology for above average viewing angles, with a maximum resolution of 1024x768. The Apple processor is a 1GHz A4 and comes with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. With three storage choices in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB (not overly large to my thinking) with a battery usage at 10 hours. If you are looking to have a 3G network it is in the plans to come out in May.

iPad has the same apps as an iPhone like Safari web browser, email, photos, calendar, maps, YouTube, contacts, photos, notes, and iPod already installed. Existing apps are mostly compatible with the iPad and includes App Store and iTunes store plus a new iBook store. Work is in progress to bring out new apps for the larger iPad screen and higher resolution. Downloads are like the iTunes with audio books, movies, movie rentals, TV shows, podcasts, music, and iTunes.Some of the drawbacks are it is not light to hold for long periods. You have no multitasking or camera for video conferencing, and the keyboard is not as responsive as you would want.

Aside from these few things it has a fast response time, great screen resolution, and a great reader that is more like reading the book than digital. Time will tell if people are willing to buy another device between a smart phone and a book reader. With the touch screen and the high resolution you will be able to see animations with the text and enjoy the reading experience with younger children. If enough people are willing to pay the price for a better reader it may find its hold in the market and place pressure on Kindle readers, so what is going to be next in the reader wars?

If you are like me with a smart phone, home computer and a laptop where is this going to fit into your plans? Do we need the newest device to show and say we have one or is it truly worth the cost. If you have your laptop already (as of now you cannot do video conferencing) you are not going to replace it with the iPad if you need some of the features it does not have, but are promised to come later. But if it fills your needs for a reader and all of its apps it does look like it can be a good buy for you. And we feel it will take away a lot of sales from kindle readers because it is so versatile. But most of all the display gives you a great view and makes reading very easy.

In our opinion Apple Ipad wins hands down over amazons kindle.

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Is iPad the Kindle Killer?

Currently, this sector of the small electronics business is dominated by the Kindle, a thin, tablet like e-book reader and a multimedia device offered by Amazon Inc. Despite practically inventing this fledgling electronics niche, Amazon is truly facing stiff competition from Apple, taking into account their dominance of the small hand held touch screen device business by their iPhone product.

As the two prepare to face off in what is already being anticipated is the electronics battlefield for 2010, the gadget buying public is scrambling to discover what makes the Apple iPad a better choice than the Amazon Kindle. Exploring some of the iPad features and comparing them to the Kindle will shed some more light on this hot topic:

Web Browsing - the Apple iPad comes equipped with the computer giant's already popular Safari web browser. This alone makes the iPad the stronger device as the Kindle features a minimal browser at best, not to mention one that can compete with Safari.

Email -Reading electronic mail is another impressive feature that the iPad bests the Kindle in. Most impressively, Apple has integrated a feature-rich e-mail client that supports an on-screen, QWERTY touch pad, as well as the ability to manipulate e-mail in portrait or landscape view. Unfortunately the Kindle doesn't feature an e-mail client.

Photos - With its 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi) display capabilities, the iPad can deliver photos with crystal-clear precision. In fact, the iPad can be used as an impressive digital photo album, displaying all of your best photographs. The Amazon Kindle can handle photographs, but only in black and white resolution.

Video - The large, oversized display screen can handle the showing of high definition movies, music videos, YouTube and of course podcasts. The iPad is a truly take it with you movie solution. The Kindle does not support motion video at this time.

iPOD/iTUNES - The iPad is the perfect device to import multimedia from either your iPod or iTunes account. Any music that you've purchased via iTunes is easily transferred over to your new tablet device. The Kindle does feature the ability to play MP3 tunes but fails to compare with the feature-rich music studio that the iPad boasts.

iBOOKS - Perhaps one of the main components of a thin, tablet like multimedia device is its ability to deliver outstanding literary choices for its user. The iPad does a great job of providing a wide variety of books and publications. This is perhaps the one area that the Amazon Kindle still maintains a degree of superiority over at the iPad, as its book selection and deliverability is slightly better.

App Store - The iPad makes adding additional applications simple with its built-in app store. This is yet another feature that makes the Apple offering a more robust piece of personal electronics, as adding additional features to the Kindle is yet to be supported.

Storage - yet another area where the iPad defeats the Kindle hands-down is the amount of storage space made available. The Kindle offers a modest 4 GB of storage, as compared to a basic 16 GB made available by the iPad. Additionally, Apple makes it possible to have as much as 32 GB internal or 64 GB with a flash drive.

Both devices do a great job of integrating the latest technologies and connectivity. Both integrate wi-fi and 3G Internet browsing. This is one area where the both perform equally well and definitely over deliver and their promises in this category.

Frantz Gerald
Editor in Chief
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