Do you know you can use the Kindle app without owning an Amazon Kindle?
Well, you can. Download the Kindle app to your phone or tablet for free, and you can harness the power of the Kindle platform without making Jeff Bezos even richer.
The app lets you enjoy a good read wherever you are, be it on your daily commute, a break, or in bed. Wherever you like to enjoy reading.
If you are a book lover, the Kindle app puts within reach six million books, newspapers, magazines, graphic novels, and manga. And, almost unbelievably, it’s all free.
Yes, but what’s the catch? Good question.
Well, none really. There’s enough reading to keep you going for several lifetimes. But you can buy books within the app if you wish.
There are few downsides for the avid reader with this app. It redefined the landscape for e-readers and left the opposition in its wake. Though there are lots of free titles, however, the choice is limited.
Built-in dictionary
Bookmarking
Swap between reading and listening
Tools to customize text size, font, margins, text alignment, and orientation
Sync your books across devices
The Amazon Kindle app is a boon, even if you already have the device. You can swap between your phone and your Kindle seamlessly. Having the app on your phone or tablet means you don’t need to lug your Kindle around with you too. This syncing is handy if you are traveling and want one fewer device to worry about.
Meanwhile, if you have an Amazon Prime membership, the app is an often overlooked extra package benefit.
Just head to Amazon Prime Reading, and you can access all the titles for free using the app. You can download up to 10 Amazon Prime Reading books in one go. Enough to keep you going for quite a while.
Prime Reading is an exclusive library of novels and non-fiction books as well as popular magazines and comic books.
The genres span everything from thrillers to children’s books, romance, science fiction, and classic titles such as the Jane Austen novels and the works of Shakespeare.
It’s free
Sync books between your devices
Zoom in to see important parts of the text
You can gift Kindle books to others from within the app
Limited choice of reading with the free version
The Amazon Kindle app can be downloaded from Google Play, Apple’s App Store, and the Amazon App Store for the PC and Mac.
The system requirement for Android is 5.0 or later, while the storage space needed varies by device. Google Play users have awarded the app a score of 4.7 out of five.
Over at the Apple App Store, the app requires 151.2 MB of space and iOS 12.0 or later. Users of the iOS version rate the app highly, giving it 4.8 out of five.
The Amazon App Store downloads the software for your desktop PC and Mac directly to your machine.
