The Kindle app puts over 1.5 million books at your fingertips. It’s the app for every reader, whether you’re a book reader, magazine reader, comics reader or newspaper reader—and you don’t need to own a Kindle to use the app. Choose from over a million Kindle books or enjoy popular magazines and newspapers, such as The Economist, The Spectator, The Guardian and The Daily Mail, with high-resolution colour images.*
• Read Books — Choose from more than one million e-books including bestsellers such as Pride & Prejudice or Treasure Island and new releases and over 200,000 Kindle-exclusive titles that you won’t find anywhere else, including books by bestselling authors such as Phil Rickman.
• Use the Built-In Dictionary, Google, and Wikipedia — The Kindle app has a built-in dictionary that allows you to look up words instantly while you’re reading your e-books. Simply press and hold a word to view its definition or use the Google and Wikipedia links to get more information.
• Sync Your E-Books — The Kindle app lets you read the same book across devices and syncs automatically, so you can start reading on one device and pick up where you left off on another device. The app syncs your furthest page read, bookmarks, notes and highlights between Android, PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and any of our Kindle devices using our Whispersync technology.
• Sample Books Before You Buy — You can read the first chapter of a book before you decide to buy on Amazon.co.uk
• Customize Your Reading — Choose your preferred font size, screen brightness, background color, and orientation (portrait or landscape) for reading your books.
* Selection of e-books and e-periodicals varies by country.
By using this app, you agree to Amazon’s Conditions of Use (www.amazon.co.uk/conditionsofuse). Please see our Privacy Notice (www.amazon.co.uk/privacynotice), our Cookies Notice (www.amazon.co.uk/cookies) and our Interest-Based Ads Notice (www.amazon.co.uk/interestbasedads).
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21 Apr 2025
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P Marchie
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11 April 2025
The Assistive Reader would have been a great feature to listen to books on the go, but the Reader turns off if I switch to another tab. The exact same thing happens on Kindle desktop for Mac. No, I'm not making this up. This problem does not exist for Google Play Books on mobile. Honestly, this obvious problem has plagued e-book readers for centuries and NO-ONE has managed to fix such a simple problem! Just awful! Fix it IMMEDIATELY!
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Candice Gerhardt
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3 March 2025
I love having my books with me wherever I go. I have had the app reset itself a couple of times where I had to re-add my books to my phone. Edit 3/3/2025.- I don't know what they have messed up on the app that has made their audible whisper sync so glitchy. I just bought a book yesterday with the audiobook (because I listen while I'm at work) I went to read it today and it is on chapter 1 saying it has 0 minutes left on the book. This isn’t the only book that has done this with.
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Amanda Fowler
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24 March 2025
This seems the only way to show how disappointing it is that Amazon is now refusing to allow digital content downloads. I know I'm only a drop in the bucket, but I will no longer purchase any book for Kindle again and my hope, is to avoid with all possibility, purchasing anything through Amazon. When we pay for a product, even a digital one, we should have the right to read in whatever format we choose. This is greed, plain and simple. And it's wrong.