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Kindle App for the iPad Approved

The kindle app and books look great on my new iPad but it looks like the kindle app pulls down my books only and not the various blogs I subscribe to on my kindle. So I guess I will need to keep my kindle for those blogs if I cannot find them elsewhere on the iPad. I was hoping to sell my kindle hardware.
 
With the availability of the Kindle app, do you see yourself using iBooks?

I've downloaded both iBooks and the Kindle app. I thought that being an Apple app, iBooks would be a much better experience, but I have to say the Kindle app is pretty good, and the books I originally bought from the Kindle store (all two of them) ported over easily. With the larger library of books and Whispersync enabling reading across multiple devices, do you still see yourself using iBooks? Is there some advantage that I might not be aware of?
 
iBooks app (not the store) still has some benefits over the Kindle one - dictionary, ability to add your own books in ePub format. And I'm sure both apps will add new features as time goes by.
 
racer1441 said:
And this is both the death of the kindle and the biggest thing that the kindle can have happen to it.

Amazon can keep the content sales side, and not have to worry about the hardware side at all. They wanted to push digital media, and they have. They will win in the end.
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I don't think this will be the death of the Kindle device since a large chunk of readers are not going to want an ipad. Not to say one is superior over the other, but they just aren't the same type of device. One is a small, light e-ink device with 2 weeks of battery life made just for reading and the other is a large, heavy backlit device with 10 hours of battery life made to be able to do a wide variety of things. The iPad may do infinitely more things than the Kindle, but IMO, the kindle is better for reading text.

I don't think anyone thinks swiss army knives will kill the scissor manufacturers.
 
I'm still trying them both out. There are things I like better about iBooks than the Kindle App, but with the Kindle App I always have the opportunity of reading it on my kinda, which is nice.

I haven't had enough time to really determine, but I think the iPad is going to be great for indoor, and low light reading, but if I'm going to read outside, my guess is the Kindle will beat iPad as far as devices go.

So I picked up a fair amount of gutenburg books for iBooks and purchased a couple. I'll give it a try before I decide officially, but right now the reading experience is close enough on both of them that I think I'll use the Kindle App just to give me the option of reading it on a kindle device (or anything else Amazon has made an app for)
 
At this point, even if I wanted to purchase books from iBookstore, I CAN'T!!!
I have 12 books on my Kindle Wishlist (my way to track what to buy next), and only 1 or 2 are available on iBookstore.
 
I've never taken the iPad seriously as an e-reader, but with the Kindle app and very favorable hands-on reviews, I'm starting to take it seriously.

I have (and love) a Kindle 2 that I had not even thought about replacing with an iPad until I read the Mossberg review yesterday morning. Now I am thinking about it.

I'd prefer to stay with the Kindle ecosystem, at least for now, because I have a bunch of books on it and because I like Amazon's selection and policies.

Dumb question, but do Kindle newspaper and magazine subscriptions also show up on the iPad Kindle app? And are there any screenshots that show the iPad Kindle app interface?

I'll be very interested to hear from someone who reads a complete, substantial book (novel or non-fiction) on the iPad, whether via iBooks or Kindle app - I'm nervous about longform reading on a glowing screen vs a reflective screen, but that may actually be fine.
 
wombat888 said:
I've never taken the iPad seriously as an e-reader, but with the Kindle app and very favorable hands-on reviews, I'm starting to take it seriously.

I have (and love) a Kindle 2 that I had not even thought about replacing with an iPad until I read the Mossberg review yesterday morning. Now I am thinking about it.

I'd prefer to stay with the Kindle ecosystem, at least for now, because I have a bunch of books on it and because I like Amazon's selection and policies.

Dumb question, but do Kindle newspaper and magazine subscriptions also show up on the iPad Kindle app? And are there any screenshots that show the iPad Kindle app interface?

I'll be very interested to hear from someone who reads a complete, substantial book (novel or non-fiction) on the iPad, whether via iBooks or Kindle app - I'm nervous about longform reading on a glowing screen vs a reflective screen, but that may actually be fine.
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I read 2 books on iPhone Kindle app before.... and No, magazines/newspaper won't show up on the app :( only books
 
How did you feel about the screen for reading those books? Given that it's smaller than the iPad's.

And with newspapers and magazines, that sucks ... but, if I can do the same thing in a different way (eg using iBooks or some other app), that might be fine. I subscribe to NYT, Wall Street Journal, Economist and New Yorker.
 
I've read eReader books going back to Palm PDA days (and that was fun, downloading to the PC, syncing manually.. :) ). I've also read many on the iPhone with the Kindle app, and expect to use both iBooks and the iPad Kindle app, since I'll bet both will have different publishers, at least for a while.

It depends, also, if publishers ever (or how quickly) create ebooks that are actually that different, and not like the Kindle/eReader ones that are scanned/OCR'd copies.
 
Let me answer in the form of a question:

Is there a way I can get my existing eBook collection (in a variety of open/non-DRM text formats) into the Kindle reader without paying Amazon to convert them? So far I can't figure out how.

Until that happens I can't even evaluate the Kindle reader app, much less think about switching.
 
wombat888 said:
How did you feel about the screen for reading those books? Given that it's smaller than the iPad's.

And with newspapers and magazines, that sucks ... but, if I can do the same thing in a different way (eg using iBooks or some other app), that might be fine. I subscribe to NYT, Wall Street Journal, Economist and New Yorker.
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The screen is fine and I read a couple chapter from "Ascent of Money" on the Kindle App for iPad last night, even better than iPhone!

As far as newspaper goes, I only need Financial Times :mad: and I believe Zinio iPad App is there too for your magazine fix..
 
gwynne said:
Let me answer in the form of a question:

Is there a way I can get my existing eBook collection (in a variety of open/non-DRM text formats) into the Kindle reader without paying Amazon to convert them? So far I can't figure out how.

Until that happens I can't even evaluate the Kindle reader app, much less think about switching.
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I've never heard of Kindle having ways to access anything except 'Amazon' content. But, google is your friend. (Well, for searching.. :) )
 
Two great things about iBooks is you can get the classics for free via Project Guttenburg and you can sync your own ePub files. Can't do either with the Kindle app.
 
This seems like a no brainer IF you already have a Kindle. With the kindle app you can buy books from Amazon and be able to read that book on either the Kindle or the iPad. If you buy a book on the iBook store, you can only read it on the iPad.
 
I think we will quickly see a sharp drop in price for the kindle especially the big one. Why would you buy the big kindle when you can pay $10 more and buy an iPad that is a great eBooks reader plus so much more. Don't get me wrong I loved my kindle 2 until I got my iPad and the kindle app. Reading my kindle books is sooo much better on the iPad.
 
Kindle App question...

Sounds strange, but I actually prefer reading Kindle books on my iPhone rather than my Kindle 2. So buying an iPad makes sense for me due to the larger screen size.

Can you highlight text and make notes using the iPad's Kindle App in the same way you can on the iPhone? For those that have the iPad, do you highlight the same way buy holding and dragging text?

Thanks in advance!
 
Good question.

I would assume that it is the same on the iPad as it is for the iPhone.

Hopefully someone who has an iPad and the Kindle reader can chime in.
 
Yes. You can highlight. I just tried this on my iPad on the kindle app. Work perfectly.

..Gromet
 
Happen to be reading a book on the Kindle app right now. Yes, it's the same.

I was thinking of keeping my Kindle around but after using my iPad for a bit, I think the Kindle is going bye-bye.
 
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