The product: Kindle's in-book experience is as straightforward as it gets. To turn the page, simply swipe or tap somewhere in the margin. A tap to the center of the page brings up a status bar with location information and reader controls. There's also a menu at the top of your screen, in case you want to change text size, brightness, margins, line spacing, or background color. For now, the Kindle app offers only black, white, and sepia (my favorite) background options, but hopefully Amazon will add other textures and colors in the future.
The free Kindle app for Android is an excellent e-reader app that seamlessly ties to your Amazon account. It does a good job of presenting e-books, can easily reach into Amazon's enormous library of downloadable works, and comes with a few bells and whistles to enhance your overall mobile reading experience.
What it offers:
With convenient features like Send to Kindle and Shelfari integration, Kindle for Android is a a rock-solid e-reader app, especially for anyone already invested in the Amazon ecosystem.
The advantage:
Kindle for Android offers a number of visual customization options, Shelfari integration, a built-in dictionary, and other extras. You can use the Send to Kindle feature as an Instapaper-like tool for saving items from around the Web.
The unfavorable:
Credit card is required even for free downloads. Doesn't let you name bookmarks.
The price:
Free
What it offers:
With convenient features like Send to Kindle and Shelfari integration, Kindle for Android is a a rock-solid e-reader app, especially for anyone already invested in the Amazon ecosystem.
The advantage:
Kindle for Android offers a number of visual customization options, Shelfari integration, a built-in dictionary, and other extras. You can use the Send to Kindle feature as an Instapaper-like tool for saving items from around the Web.
The unfavorable:
Credit card is required even for free downloads. Doesn't let you name bookmarks.
The price:
Free
