The Amazon Kindle for the Mac is out, finally. I've been waiting a long time for this one. I got my first Kindle book for my iPhone recently, but I can't get used to reading book-length work on such a small screen. Instead of putting it off, now I can finish my last chapter of The 4-Hour Workweek on my MacBook Air, without having to wait for the iPad to come out.
Kindle for the Mac is barebones, but that's okay, because reading e-books should be clean and simple, and not be a distraction by the tool that holds the content. When I opened the application, it asked for my Amazon login, then pulled my Kindle book from the cloud and downloaded it to my Mac. The beauty of it is that when the book opened, it displayed the page that I last read on my iPhone; it also remembered the dozen or so bookmarks I made on it. That's one seamless experience I can appreciate.
If Amazon decides to make a Kindle app for the iPad, then it will be a matter of who offers the cheaper book, Amazon or Apple. Because right now I have no problem buying Kindle books, as I've been buying physicals books from Amazon for 10 years without incident. It's good to have competition in the e-book space.
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