Comments on: Kindle Vs Kindle for PC Vs Kindle for iPhone

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:33:21 +0000

If I buy a physical book and put it on my bookshelf, anyone in my family can read it. I treat my Kindle book the same way. My wife and I have our Kindles on the same account for that reason.

By: PaulF

PaulF — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:52:26 +0000

Someone fell free to jump in here and tell me what I’m about to say is wrong but I do believe that the Kindle is intended to be a ‘single user’ device not a ‘one-per-family’ solution. With that in mind, a six-device limit seems quite reasonable and since you and your wife both have a kindle that means you actually have a 12 device limit in your household already. Now, if the real reason you want to share one account is so you can both read the same book without buying it twice, I can support that line of thinking – after all, if I buy a book in the traditional printed/paper format, I can share that with my friends until the cows come home. It should be the same for the Kindle and once purchased, we should have the ability to loan our books to others.

By: switch11

switch11 — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:44:54 +0000

Not really.

iPhone has its own accessibility feature but it’s not as usable. It’s called Voice Over. you can search for videos for ‘iphone voice over’ to see what it’s like.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:59:19 +0000

I can get a free iPhone and want to so I can access Kindle’s read aloud feature as I work with students who have reading disabilities. Does the iPhone version have the read aloud feature? If not, is it possible to download books on Kindle iPhone and have another iPhone app read the Kindle books to me… another app such as Read to Me or Text to Speech? Thanks!

By: switch11

switch11 — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:07:44 +0000

thanks.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:28:37 +0000

Using the Kindle for PC does hurt your eyes, but I’ve found that altering the settings makes a big difference.

Turn the background to black with white text.
Drop the brightness down a little if you want to white becomes light grey.
Up the font size a couple of notches
Increase the words per line settings

Makes for much more comfortable reading.

By: switch11

switch11 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:16:22 +0000

Amazon have said they are going to release Kindle for Mac in a few months. Theys aid it 3 weeks ago so perhaps 1-3 more months.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:01:08 +0000

Will the Kindle be made available for Macs soon? I have a PC desktop, but my laptop is a Mac and it would be great to have the capability to read my Kindle books on my laptop in case I don’t have a light source when I travel, etc.

By: greg

greg — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:52:36 +0000

why cant we read newspapers and magazines on the kindle for iphone app. Im a dx owner who loves it – but they need to keep pace

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:30:17 +0000

I downloaded it yesterday and gave it a try. It does have a lot of work to go, but I like the idea and I hope to see a lot of improvements in the future. But it’ll be nice to throw some free books into it as well as some things from around the web.