The app will also use a page-turning animation (which can be disabled) that resembles what we saw in Apple’s iBooks app at the iPad launch. The iPad app will let you adjust the background color and set backlighting brightness in the app in addition to vaguely described “font size” customization. You can also control the column width to aid in legibility, but not the vertical space between lines, which is set in lockstep with type size. The Mac OS X program lets you choose among 10 type sizes, although only in the Georgia typeface. Subscriptions to newspapers, magazines, and blogs – available on Kindle hardware – aren’t included, which is true of the Windows and iPhone software as well.īoth the Mac OS X and iPad app let you adjust a book’s display to a greater degree than the iPhone app. (The language Amazon is using may be part of negotiation with Apple about including iPad details, or its own way of stressing independence from Apple’s hardware.)īoth the Mac OS X program and iPad app let you read and retrieve any books that you have purchased via the Kindle Store or from a Kindle device using the same Amazon account. Amazon seems ready for this.Īmazon coyly names its iPad product page “Kindle Apps for Tablet Computers,” followed in smaller type by “Including the iPad.” The app sounds quite similar to the Mac OS X and iPhone apps with additional controls. Apple told developers last week that iPad apps submitted by March 27th would be considered for release in the App Store on the April 3rd iPad ship date. Mac OS X software is currently numbered 1.0.0 Beta 1.Īmazon also released screen captures and details of its plans for an iPad app. The Kindle for iPhone app appeared a year ago, and a Windows version followed last November (see “ Amazon Releases Kindle Software for iPhone,” 3 March 2009). Our colleagues at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) were tipped by a reader that Amazon has finally released its Kindle application for Mac OS X. 1647: Focus-caused notification issues, site-specific browser examples, virtualizing Windows on M-series Macs.#1648: iPhone passcode thefts, Center Cam improves webcam eye contact, APFS Uncertainty Principle.#1649: More LastPass breach details and 1Password switch, macOS screen saver problem, tvOS 16.3.3 fixes Siri Remote bug.#1650: Cloud storage changes for Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive quirky printing problem.#1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk.
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