Gadgetory

now let's take a look at the Kindle for iPhone and iPod Touch application this is a bit of a simpler one compared to iBooks however it's not nearly as bare-bones as the Google Books application so as you see here we do have the Kindle Store so I'll show you in a minute you can edit so if we decide that we don't want any of these books on the local memory we can easily delete them you can go ahead and sort through author title or recent and as you can see there there is a little refresh icon now that actually syncs your Kindle application with your online Amazon account now with Amazon everything is stored up in the cloud so if I ever decide let's say I purchased a book and I decide I want to delete it on this device that's fine I can always redownload it no issue at all and likewise if I decide that hey I'm going to be on my computer right now and I decide that hey this is a great book I want to buy this well but I buy it on my PC and then immediately all I have to do is just press that button right there it will download now be all set to go and that also syncs your bookmarks as well as your highlights all that kind of good stuff so let's show you a little bit about how it works so we can go ahead and open up Pride and Prejudice this is as you can see it automatically defaults to the full screen view which I do like you know we have three and a half inches of screen real estate to work with you better use it all now it doesn't have any fancy page transitions so you know it's not too bad it's really quite smooth you can see here I scroll really fast I kind of caused a little bit of issue but of course there's really no reason why you'd ever need to do that now by tapping on it we'll go ahead and bring up all of our menus we can search so just do a quick little search here you can see here it's pretty much on par with the other applications it's not extremely fast but it's definitely not slow by any means and it will do you know it would be just fine now if you write down here we can pull up some of the options there's text color so we can have it black we have it white or sepia I prefer to just leave it on black in the same way it goes for if you want to change the font size you can absolutely do that although again I like the defaults of the Kindle app looks just fine to me and if we click here we can see that it has we can go to different versions of the book on that man that versions but you see the different you know parts of it so the table of contents begin in center etc and with different ebooks that are formatted properly you can actually see even more here such as the individual chapters now the last thing is we can just simply bookmark the page so as you can see right there this is bookmark now it's um bookmarked I now want a really cool thing I'll go ahead and just hover over it right here you can see that actually does go ahead and allow you to both look it up in the dictionary do several things so all you need to do is just hover over the well not hover over it but you need to press it for just a moment you'll see the dictionary will automatically pop up explaining what the word means a very very cool feature I wish the other apps would use as you know you can do it 9 books but you know they have to click another button and wait for the dictionary to load this way I mean soon as less they want to see what indisposed means hover over it boom there's my you know definition it's perfect I can also go ahead and highlight as well as noted so a very very cool feature with the Kindle application now that's about it you know it's pretty smooth like I showed you you can do a little bit of customization but I like is it just works and it's really quite snappy now let's take a look at the Kindle Store itself this is a pretty basic store it's not you know no frills like an iBook in the iBook store but no big deal you can see here you can search very quickly and easily browse by category take a look at the bestsellers all that kind of good stuff so let's go ahead and jump into the bestsellers and I will mention one thing this seems to load a bit slower than the other two I don't know if this just that's not quite up to the speed if it's whatever the deal is but as you can see it wasn't a big deal we can go ahead and take a look at the different books that are on the top sellers list as you can see I'm going to take a look at the price the titles all that cut stuff it's a bit small but you know yeah not a deal-breaker but it means so once we decide to load it up you can see that we have a few options here pushing see all the information you can see the list price you can see that we can buy it mium by now just by clicking that especially if you already have your account logged into on Safari we try a sample see the more information description and reviews so it's pretty simple now overall I like I don't really think that this is any better than the iBook store but as far as you know buying the books it's no big deal and however I think that most of the time you probably will want to go ahead and buy on the PC something just buying stuff on mobile devices you know using your credit card now that kind of stuff just I don't know I'm just not totally into that so I prefer to buy the stuff on the PC however of course that option is there all you need to do is just log into your Amazon account is really quite simple and easy so my guys that's just about it for my you know my overview of the Kindle app now I'm going to just say this this is my favorite of the three now while you know if you're just using it just for the app if you're not ever going to you know view your books on any other device iBooks is definitely a little bit better it's more polished a little bit quicker you have a few nicer options that you don't have in Kindle however one of the biggest things is that it doesn't have quite as big of a library the Kindle library is much larger than either there and the other two as far as the paid books anyway I think the Google book store has a few more free ebooks but sort of the paid books this is definitely the way to go in addition this also has the best compatibility now this is really key you know I mean if you're changing over from you know you standard paper books which I've always read you know you're going to have an issue with buying all kinds of books online and then probably know that you won't be able to use them on a different device next year etc etc now where iBooks is pretty much solely used for on Apple devices you know let's say I have a an Android phone well I can go ahead and read those books with the Kindle app same way obviously on the Kindle itself PC Mac iPad there's a lot of different things that you can view so really I do prefer the Kindle app just because I buy it once I can read on my ipod touch syncs with all my stuff and then if I decide that hey you know what I'm touched I phone here in a few years they're not really all that cool anymore I want to go for the latest and greatest well the odds are that Kindle will go ahead and support that as well so for pretty much that reason alone I'm going to go ahead and recommend to go ahead and pick up Kindle it's a really nice app the store's pretty decent they've got a really nice library and their support is really great I mean they really do support a lot you