Amazon Kindle for Mac

User Reviews

• seeing a lot of complaints, are you listening

  patdeeganFebruary 13, 2012

  Pros

  can I use Mac

  Cons

  and the Kindle is telling me it is unable to connect at this time.

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• best desktop ereader

  tehbookmanDecember 21, 2011

  Pros

  Huge selection and nice fonts

  Cons

  more magazines please for non kindle devices please

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• Cnet needs to get back to Version...well...tracking!

  dabinfordaspamDecember 5, 2011

  Pros

  we are now at version 1.8.1 and all i can find on cnet when i type kindle for mac is ... version 1. how pathetic is that .... so much for version... tracking! :)

  Cons

  we are now at version 1.8.1 and all i can find on cnet when i type kindle for mac is ... version 1. how pathetic is that .... so much for version... tracking! :)

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• Tiger users beware

  sudbirdJanuary 25, 2011

  Pros

  Not sure if there are any since install failed

  Cons

  I downloaded the app frm a site that didn't indicate the OSX generation. I wrk pro with computers and can't afford to have software upgrades (esp Adobe) and hardware out of sync, therefore, a system upgrade is a very momentous decision.

  Summary

  Amazon should realize that there are still plenty of users out there on earlier platforms (and 10.4 is as different from 10.5 as XP is to Windows 7), and give us access.

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• It works as designed.

  judomiusJanuary 18, 2011

  Pros

  Like I said, it works as designed.

  Cons

  Not for me.

  Summary

  Who would want to read a Kindle book on a computer when you have a Kindle DX reader?

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• Stinkin' awesome to be able to read my books on my Mac

  majormikeDecember 24, 2010

  Pros

  Love that it syncs with my Kindle.

  Cons

  Very rudimentary. Not even up to Kindle's par.

  Summary

  Hey, It's free.

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• Kindle for Mac 1.2.2, ZERO stars, crashes MacOS 10.6.4

  dananiel_bNovember 7, 2010

  Pros

  Who can tell if there's anything to like? Won't start. Hangs the OS. It takes a big time screwup to hang a Unix OS.

  Cons

  I'm an electronics engineer. This product did NOT go through software QA. I bought an e-book, my first, assuming it was a real product. Wasted the money on the e-book..

  Summary

  I'm an electronics engineer. Kindle for Mac 1.2.2 was not adequately QA'd before release. This is not a minor feature failure. It reliably crashes the latest MacOS when initializing. Amazon, if this was written by your crew, then replace the management because they are clueless about SW QA. If you bought it from an independent developer, your purchasers and contracts people need to get a LOT smarter about buying software. In either case, your SW QA has either failed you or does not exist. Please remove this product from the shelf until it works properly.

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• This should be called Kindle Light.

  drrocketOctober 13, 2010

  Pros

  Easy load, easy access.

  Cons

  Unable to highlight, search, or copy to clip board.

  Summary

  Kindle for Mac is read-only without search. Quoting from an ebook is risky without search, and complex. It requires taking screen shot(s) and converting to text with an OCR application.

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• Excellent ebook reader and book store for iPad et al.

  Mal_whiteSeptember 29, 2010

  Pros

  Keeps bookmarks synchronized between registered devices, don't need to be connected to PC/Mac to download and read books, good range of authors to get books by.

  Cons

  can't read books from other sources (PDFs or other ebooks), have had problems on 1 Mac with synchronous updates (ok on 5 other devices)

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• Works Great

  Mark AndrowMarch 19, 2010

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Simple, straightforward, works great. I installed in on 2 of my Macs. I started reading a book on the first Mac and the 2nd Mac automatically started at the place where I left off.

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