Review - Kindle For iPhone
I recently installed Kindle for iPhone and discovered I LIKE reading on my iPhone.
I have been hesitant to adopt any e-book technology because I really like holding and reading traditional books.
But I was out of town and desperate for a new book to read.
As a result, I downloaded Kindle for iPhone and then downloaded Nineteen Seventy Four, book one of the Red Riding Quartet.
Although the iPhone screen is pretty small compared to Kindle or iPad, if you turn the iPhone sideways, it's about as wide as one paperback book page.
Also, you can specify the font size and background color in the iPhone Kindle app so you can quickly adjust the font size to your preference.
Navigating on Kindle is quite easy: tap the right side of the screen to turn the page forward, tap the left side of the screen to turn the page backward, or swipe right or left to turn the page forward or backward.
To view Kindle options, tap the middle of the page.
Reading on the Kindle is pretty natural.
I quickly got used to the small screen and found the text and backlight very easy on my eyes.
Also, the iPhone is much easier to hold than a book and you can read in the dark without a light.
Overall, I highly recommend the Kindle for iPhone:
I have been hesitant to adopt any e-book technology because I really like holding and reading traditional books.
But I was out of town and desperate for a new book to read.
As a result, I downloaded Kindle for iPhone and then downloaded Nineteen Seventy Four, book one of the Red Riding Quartet.
Although the iPhone screen is pretty small compared to Kindle or iPad, if you turn the iPhone sideways, it's about as wide as one paperback book page.
Also, you can specify the font size and background color in the iPhone Kindle app so you can quickly adjust the font size to your preference.
Navigating on Kindle is quite easy: tap the right side of the screen to turn the page forward, tap the left side of the screen to turn the page backward, or swipe right or left to turn the page forward or backward.
To view Kindle options, tap the middle of the page.
Reading on the Kindle is pretty natural.
I quickly got used to the small screen and found the text and backlight very easy on my eyes.
Also, the iPhone is much easier to hold than a book and you can read in the dark without a light.
Overall, I highly recommend the Kindle for iPhone:
- easy to navigate
- easy to read text on the screen
- easy to hold
- Kindle books are less expensive than the print version
- you can purchase and download a book anywhere you have 3G signal (I did not test book download in the Edge network)
- you can read in the dark with no light
- since you almost always have your phone, you always have your books
- you can lock the screen in horizontal or vertical position so the screen doesn't change orientation as you move the phone
- once you're done reading, you can't give the book to someone else
- even though I am used to reading on the iPhone screen, it would be nice to have a larger screen
- you can bookmark pages, which helps if you want to page through the book looking for information you already read, but I find that print books are much easier to scan through looking for information (something I had to do often reading Nineteen Seventy Four, a complex murder mystery)
- you can't adjust the screen brightness from the Kindle app.
You need go to the iPhone settings to adjust the screen brightness
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