Kindle Classic App Reviews

It is the worst app I have ever used on Mac. It’s unbelieveable that it was made by Amazon. Hard to use and every bit of tools inside the app will iritate you somehow. They could have made it better just by learning to Adobe Reader, but they didn’t. I also read on Kindle for iPad and Kindle paperwhite, which are both great, but the Kinle on Mac….. come on. Just try to keep away from this app, or it will ruin your good mood every time you try to use it.

Not sure why this situation exists, but like other users on here, I found this to be a poor excuse of an app from Amazon. If you go on your into the Kindle store and click “Free Reading Apps”, the Kindle program that is loaded there is only slightly better (you can choose between two fonts!). I’m disappointed with both because I prefer to have some space between lines.

Update: I’m bumping from a 1 to a 3. I went to Amazon and downloaded the most current version of the app from there, version 1.16.0. that works much better. Still didn’t get my collections to show as collections, but at least I have my books available now and sorted in “the most recent” order I prefer. LB Original review: I never do reviews, but I feel I have to add to the 1 star review here. I just downloaded this app so I could read some recently purchased job related boots on my macbook. Install was easy and fast. However, when I opened it, it was nowhere near the quality I have on my Kindle eReader or my iPhone. It showed 3 “new” books that are nowhere in my set of books. The rest of the list contained the correct specified number, but not all are showing up and I’ve yet to find a way to get them to. Even with specifying “sort by most recent”, all I’m seeing are books that are over a year old. It also did not import my collections as collections. When I choose the option to import collections, the list box is empty. I’ll wait a few hours and see if this self corrects, otherwise this is going straight to the trash bin.

My number one problem with the Kindle app is how it works (or doesn’t work) with Apple’s Magic Mouse. That Magic Mouse has a touch-sensitive surface for scrolling, which is a joy in every other app. However, if your mouse pointer happens to be over the Kindle window (even if the Kindle app is in the background) and your finger brushes the surface of the mouse every so slightly, your Kindle book will scroll MANY pages away from its current location. Then you have to switch to the Kindle app, figure out whether the book scrolled forward or backward and laboriously return to the page you were on. Amazon has been aware of this problem for at least 5 years and yet they choose not to fix it. And the fix is SOOO simple. If I wrote code like that, I would fire myself. Just a really bad engineering decision.

I know this may sound stupid but i really dont know how to logout of this thing. i have second account and accidentally logged onto an older one that had no books on it, so if someone could please just tell me how to logout from a Macbook Air then that would be great.

I’m giong to have to join those giving this app low scores for the terrible job it does. It has not changed other than in superficial cosmetic ways in YEARS. There is really no reason I can think of why it is so very basic. The iOS version is fantastic. You can manually sort both your books and your collections. There’s that great feature that lets you read a book description. I have hundreds of books in my library and I can’t remember all of them. None of this is available in the desktop version. The app store doesn’t even offer the most recent version of the app. Although, I’m actually glad for that at the moment, since I’m have to go back to this older version because the newest version (1.16) is actually worse. Amazon, you need to fix this!

- App Does not allow users to change fonts. - UI Bevel on the top, side, and bottom cannot be removed.

I’m not sure what it is about the MacBook Kindle app, but when I use the search tool, the program takes forever to find the terms I’m looking for. This can get extremely frustrating because I like to purchase the Kindle versions of review guides so that I can quickly reference a concept while I’m studying without having to flip through several textbooks. Strangely, when I use the Kindle search tool on my iPad, it is SO much faster. I just wish I could do everything on my laptop instead of having to have both my laptop and iPad out.

This version will not run on any MacOS prior to 10.8. The prior version that will run on SnowLeopard (1.10.6) is available on several sites, but Amazon has now blocked this version from connecting to ones Amazon account to sync their books. Exhorting us to update to a newer version of MacOS is pointless due to compatability with expensive software and the awful user interfaces of newer MacOS versions (we tried them out and soon returned to SnowLeopard).

Book wont download! App crashes constantly!!!

I love this app. I use it on my mac pro, macbook pro and iPad pro. It syncs perfectly, right where I left off on all these devices. I love that I can “pick up” my books anywhere, especially if I have to wait an appointment, picking up kids from school etc.

If you can avoid at all cost.

I had a Mac last year, and I am reading both from Chinese (z.cn) and American Amazon, so I installed the Mac version of kindle on my Mac, so I could read on my computer instead of holding on to kindle at work. It worked fine roughly a year ago, until recently. This is how it happened, first I thought it was a login problem. Because I switch frequently from Chinese and US amazon, I know the server of CHN is not that stable, so I never used this APP to read any Chinese books. But I could open up my local Chinese book and read from there. I only login in to my US account to read. So I was really happy using this. There was one time, I just purchased a new Chinese book, and I wanted to take a look at, so I decided to risk it. And it froze for like forever!! So I force quit it, and trying to login back in my US account, froze. Then I just give up, I just want to read offline, do not login into any kind of amazon account, still froze. I even tried several times to install and uninstall it. No luck! They haven’t provided a new version of this APP since 2016. I think the problem occured when the latest version was out (Oct, 2015), and it automatically updated. Now that this APP DOES NOT WORK for anything! So if anyone wants to read off from your Mac, no way using this app.

I’m sorry, but the fact that I found posts on google from FOUR years ago about smooth scrolling in the app that still has not been resolved is a travesty. I don’t always like reading a full page before scrolling. I generally like to keep my eyes reading at the same height and slowly scroll as I read lines. It’s so frustrating that there is NO option to do this. This should be a simple fix to add the ability to do this. I’m sure there are a ton of people that feel the same way. Add it. Make your customers happy. Otherwise, they will continue to abandon your app and find other files to read or other ways to avoid using your product.

This app was working at one point, as I have my old ebooks in the library. But, now when I try to sync new purchases, it stubbornly refuses to do so. i just get an error to check my network settings… which are just fine, as every other app works perfectly.

I was nervous when I saw the low ratings and reviews, but wanted to be able to read my Kindle books on my Mac. Immediately upon opening it, my mobile library was synced and when I opened the book I was currently reading it went straight to the page I was on. I can modify the text, highlight, search, etc. and it wasn’t difficult to figure out how to do this. It works exactly how I was hoping, so I’m confused as to why ratings are so low. If you need to access Kindle books on your Mac, this works great!

I think that this is good and everything to read on however, but there’s no text-to-speech (audible) option because when i’m in betweeen classes or working on homework i would like to listen to music podcasts or books in the background, but there’s no option on the Mac system/IOs systems

i can’t find book i looking for like the witcher book not good

CANNOT VIEW DOCS LIKE IN IPHONE

How difficult is it to add an option to continuously scroll instead of having to “turn” the pages? It’s so frustrating when I’m used to reading articles online or PDFs that I can gradually scroll through. Please make this a feature as I’m sure many others would appreciate it… especially when trying to read on a macbook screen!