Kindle for Android

Thanks for posting this. I registered with Amazon for email notifications when this was to be released, but they didn't send me anything.

It works great on my HTC Incredible so far, including Whispersync with my Kindle 2. I wish it supported search and included a dictionary like my Kindle 2 does, but since even Kindle For PC doesn't have these features yet I suppose I'll have to wait.

My one big UI gripe so far is that the phone's back button isn't used for navigation like the back button on the Kindle hardware; instead it takes you straight to the welcome screen. The navigation feature analogous to the hardware Kindle's back button is bizarrely exposed as a separate choice through the application menu.

The barcode doesn't work for me: Item not found. I'm on a HTC Hero, Android 1.5 (argh), T-Mobile Germany.

Are there any minimum system requirements?

Edit: Duh, it says on the page that you need 1.6.

Doesn't work on my Magic + Cyanogen 5. Random words from my book show up, but they are interspersed with strings of Japanese and other random Unicode characters.

Who knew that rendering a subset of HTML could be so difficult...

As a Droid owner, I'm happy. I've been waiting for this.

That said, I feel as if perhaps Kindle's killed itself. I can buy a $200 Android tablet with a decent, colour TN LCD and run this app on it.

I forsee a lot of illicit copying in the future of Amazon's ebooks.

An interesting question is whether this app will work in the emulator. If so, it means you can have ebooks on your laptop.

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