Kindle for Mac finally ships
Amazon said next year and, well, it’s next year. Still, Kindle for Mac arrives sans a couple of important features, including full text search and note taking, with a promise to deliver them, as well as software for the iPad, at some undetermined date.
Amazon has announced the immediate availability of Kindle for Mac (download, 9.2MB), a free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their Macs.
“Kindle for Mac is the perfect companion application for customers who own a Kindle or Kindle DX,” said Jay Marine, director, Amazon Kindle. “For those customers around the world who don’t yet have a Kindle, Kindle for Mac is a great way to instantly access and read the most popular new releases as well as their old favorites.”
Features are said to include:
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- • Purchase, download, and read hundreds of thousands of books available in the Kindle Store
• Access your library of previously purchased Kindle books stored on Amazon’s servers for free
• Choose from 10 different font sizes and adjust words per line
• Add and automatically synchronize bookmarks and last page read
• View notes and highlights marked on Kindle, Kindle DX, and Kindle for iPhone
• Read books in full color including children’s books, cookbooks, travel books and textbooks
• Whispersync technology that automatically saves and synchronizes bookmarks and last page read across devices
Thereupon, stateside Kindle for Mac users have access to 450,000 titles on the Amazon Kindle Store, including tons o’ free books.
Again, Kindle for Mac comes to market without full text search and the ability annotate text, which are two fairly bedrock features for an ebook reader. Amazon has said this functionality, as well as Kindle for iPad, at some unspecified future date(s).
Dig into Kindle for Mac and pop us a note below in the comments with your impressions…
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