Kindle App Redesign

[tubemonkey]

Amazon Announces All-New Kindle App—Easier Than Ever to Read and Connect with Friends

All-new Kindle app turns your phone or tablet into a book—read anytime, anywhere

An app built for book lovers—with everything you need all in one place, seamlessly move between the pages of your book, your library, your personal bookstore, and more

Be part of a community of readers—with Goodreads built into Kindle for iOS you can now discover and discuss books with friends, authors, and more

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2017-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) — Today, Amazon announced an all-new Kindle app that makes it easier than ever to turn your phone or tablet into a book—so you can read anytime, anywhere. The Kindle app is designed for book lovers and provides easy access to the most popular Kindle features—you can effortlessly move between the pages of your book, your library, your personalized bookstore and more. Also, with the Goodreads community built into Kindle for iOS, you can easily discover and discuss books with friends. The all-new Kindle app is available now in the App Store and Google Play, and will be delivered as part of a free, over-the-air update starting this week.

“We’ve built the new Kindle app from the ground up for book lovers, giving readers easy access to everything they might want to do with their books, all in one place,” said Chuck Moore, Vice President, Kindle. “It’s now easier than ever to turn your phone or tablet into a book and immerse yourself in an author’s world at any time.”

[tomsem]

This does not belong in Kindle Fire forum (maybe Apple forum?), though it is true that features that show up for Kindle for iOS often make their way to the Fire’s Kindle app after a few weeks or months.

Goodreads has been there in some form for some time now, and the press release isn’t really going to make much sense until the update drops and we can see what they are talking about (the latest update was just a couple of days ago).

I’m more interested in meat-and-potatoes features like Split Screen support (on iPad), Word Runner, independent text layout settings for portrait|landscape|landscape 2 column (on iPad), orphan control. Speak Screen should highlight sentences/words as iBooks and other apps do.

But am open to improvements in getting around the app: it takes 3 taps to get back to Library, compared to 2 for Fire, Kindle, Android, 2 to get to TOC vs 1 swipe for Fire/Android. And if there are more font adjustments (adjust bold etc) that will be nice.

[tomsem]

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2...d-kindle-apps/

More info. Apparently Android too. Still waiting for it to show up in App Store, and also Google Play.

(I do wonder if it would be better to have a ‘Kindle apps’ sub-forum here rather than discuss in respective ‘Apple devices’ ‘Android Devices’ ‘Windows devices’ etc forum as seems to be the convention. One-stop shopping instead of having to discover threads buried in multiple forums.)

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by tomsem

(I do wonder if it would be better to have a ‘Kindle apps’ sub-forum here rather than discuss in respective ‘Apple devices’ ‘Android Devices’ ‘Windows devices’ forum as seems to be the convention. One-stop shopping instead of having to discover threads buried in multiple forums.)

I totally agree with that

[jhowell]

Looking at the "all new" iOS app, it seems to be anything but all new.

There is a new icon and splash screen. There are light and dark color themes. And the book you last read shows as an icon at the bottom center of the screen so that you can get back to it easily. Nothing that improves the actual reading experience.

An "all new" Kindle for PC also dropped today with similar minimal changes.

I suppose this is all about hyping the tenth anniversary of the Kindle.

[Blossom]

Moved to Kindle Forum ~ Editor

I moved it to the Kindle Forum as it affects both Apple and Android users.

[Blossom]

Okay mod hat off. I'm really excited for this. I'm hoping redesign means it handles large libraries better. My current Kindle app takes 2.22GB of space on my tablet. It's ridiculous.

[AnemicOak]

Just updated the iOS app. Was meh before, is still meh. I don't know that the actual reading experience of the app (you know, the part that's most important) has changed at all, but maybe there are some small changes I'm not noticing since I only use the Kindle app in a pinch. Much prefer using MapleRead (or Marvin or another 3rd party app that gives more control over the reading environment).

[Deskisamess]

I'm a tad confused...I updated the Kindle app on my ipad mini, and according to the app store info, it is 6.0 but in the actual app, it is 5.15.2

I see no changes either.

[tdanzie]

I just update on kindle app on my iPhone. I hope the image is okay, I adjusted the size to be under 600 x 600. This is my first image.

[Rellwood]

Has anyone installed the new version on Kindle for PC and used it to add to Calibre yet?

[Blossom]

I'm waiting on the Android update even though they updated the images and icon it's still the old version when downloaded.

Sent from my Nexus 7

[jhowell]

One new feature I noticed in the new iOS app is the presence of Arabic language fonts. This seems odd since I don’t see any books in that language for sale at Amazon.

(You need to open a side loaded book in that language to see the new font choices.)

[Deskisamess]

I had to delete the app from my iPad Mini, then redownload it, to get the updated app. My iPhone didn't seem to update correctly either.

I see nothing that is a real improvement to reading. I would love the light green background that the Kindle app offers on some android devices. I'd like a scroll ability also, it is the one thing I prefer about iBooks. Especially for study type books like a Bible.

[jhowell]

Kindle for Android 8.0 just showed up on my Nexus tablet. Looks a lot like the new iOS app.