Review- Amazon’s Kindle for iPhone

I’ve been searching for a term to use here instead of “being in the books,” because really, my head is in my iPod touch today. Today’s review is an epic one. I recently was tipped to download the Kindle Application for iPhone. I didn’t have any doubts that this would be an awesome app. I wasn’t a huge fan of the Kindle itself, mainly because of the price. But the app for the iPod has the right price; FREE!

This is a small app with a lot in it from digital cover to cover. Kindle is the app that every book lover should get a hold of immediately. You may be turned off by the small screen of the iPhone/iPod touch as opposed to the actual screen size of the Kindle, however the Kindle team have compensated for the screen size to add in some cool features and helped the ease of reading such as a magnifying glass and a highlighter tool.

But as we roll on with this app and you start adjusting to the views of each and every page, wondering what will happen on the next, you really gain a feeling of being accustomed to this app. It may not top an actual book or the Kindle feeling, but regardless of format, you’re able to read literary classics on a handheld device that you can carry in your pocket! So that means you could read any book, that you’ve purchased from the Kindle store, on the train to work, in traffic, on a plane, sitting at a restaurant, movie, the possibilities are endless.

One of the features that I love is the ‘Go to’ option. It allows you to jump to the cover, table of contents, beginning, or any page you wish to go to. Along with this feature on the task bar you can edit the views of each and every page. This means you can raise the size (or lower it) and also change the color of the text/page background color. You can choose from black, white, and sepia. Each option is really quick to change and offers opportunities to every type of person and how they enjoy reading.

All in all, this app so far is definitely my favorite out of the e-Readers. I’ve been pro-Nook before getting this and am still very interested in even buying the Nook itself, however, with this app in hand I have no instant desire to go out and buy any type of ready in the immediate future. I don’t have an abundance of time to read books all that often. Most of my reading gets done on lovely vacations such as this current holiday. With that in mind, let’s look to the scoring:

Look and Feel: This is probably one of the more simple apps I’ve come across yet. There is not very much to it, but what’s there to a page in a classic if not just the words? I could see complaining about a graphic novel looking like this. However, I’m not reading up on the Dark Knight, I’ve been using one of my favorite books, Treasure Island, for this review. Score for this gets a sweet 9.5/10

Ease of Use: This app couldn’t get any easier to use unless it read your eyes and turned the page when you got to the point. Well, maybe, I guess you could add that in the next update. However, without that, I’m still scoring this highly. For the efficiency and quickness to the app with so much information stored. Rolling with this I’m scoring this highly with the popular 9.5/10

The Good, The Bad, and the WTF: The good thing about this is that it’s completely awesome! That word is maybe understating my feelings. The only bad thing is that our screen is so small. Those who have eye problems may stray away from this because of that, however, as I mentioned you can attempt to fix this problem in your settings. Here is the best part, the WTF point of this application. The majority of books, even newer releases like Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” is less than $10. How can you beat that? Score for this is up there with another 9.5/10!

Total Score
95/100

——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-

GALLERY

——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-——-

You can find more information on Amazon’s Kindle by visiting their website here.

“Treasure Island” was purchased via the Kindle Store and is in public domain publishing.