Kindle Classic App Reviews

This version of the app is no longer supported or updated by Amazon. Recommend downloading directly from Amazon.

I’m a college student and really do perfer to get ebooks. Kindle works great on my iPad but there are days when I only carry my macbook around so I downloaded this app on a day I really needed my textbook. But app is terribly slow and loading pages, freezes and crashes. Please fix this for college students who need to review their textbooks last minute.

I can’t even sign in, when I enter my credentials it goes *POOF*… Come on Amazon, you’re better than that!

When it worked it was a passable app. It deregistered or unregistered and would not allow itself to re-register. I was caught in the APP is damaged please delete and re-install loop. I fixed it by downloading from the Amazon Kindle support site. I would suggest not using the app in the App store.

says unable to connect please check your network settings and proxy config my network is fine and I dont use a proxy i can no longer read the books and am told I must re-download them i tried deleting app and re-installing and i tried pressing Register button but same message above says I am not registered, which isn’t true.

Are you serious ? i cant look through my My Send-to-Kindle docks with this app? so what is it for with such poor functions?

Changing pages is an absolute disaster using the trackpad. It will occasionally change a single page, sometimes 5 pages, sometimes it will even go backwards. Sure you could use the arrow keys, but lets says you’re taking notes; you have to click out of the window you’re typing in (text edit, in my case), click the kindle applicaiton, change page, then go back to text edit. How is it possible to have gotten page turning with the trackpad so terribly wrong? Somebody on the kindle team needs to buy a mac and check out how it works in iBooks. Edit: This is still utterly awful. One of the worst applications made by a ‘real’ company I’ve ever used.

Needs to add Bookerly, etc.

I am using this for a textbook, so this might not apply for everyone. But certanly pertains to comic book readers as well. There needs to be a page view. Like a pdf. Small thumbnail of the 10 previous pages, 10 pages after and including current page. Like in comixology. The app works great for me though. Not sure why so many one star ratings, unless some update fixed some problems. Great app, could use some more tools. So far, not problem syncing with my andorid kindle app. Will update if problems arise.

Good job Kindle team. You finally bring me multi-color highlight support, I gonna start buying tech refernce books from Amazon. Eddy Cue pretty much destroyed any app that related to iTunes and iCloud, it’s time for me to switch my content eco-system.

When I read the description I got the impression that this app works with Whispersync, but it doesn’t. Hopefully that will happen in future versions.

It appears there’s no way to sync pdf documents I have on my mac to the Kindle Cloud Library. Yes, I am using the “Send to Kindle” app. Yes, I was able to upload my pdf document to the Cloud Library. Yes, I am able to see the document on my iPhone (which is why my review wasn’t for zero stars). But I also want to see the doc in Kindle on my Macbook Pro and it’s not there. I’ve tried everything I can think of. If someone knows of a solution I’m all ears. Until then I am very disappointed. :-(

Essentially useless for doing anything with it.

Cant seen to get my issue of Backpacker on this app. I am not sure why, but it is disappointing.

When it works it works allright. But most of the time it won’t work. After purchasing a book it takes ages to sync up.

I mainly use Kindle for reading books loaned to my by local libraries eLibrary system, and manga and graphic novels I can’t find on other services. I am happy that Amazon decided to put their app on the Mac App Store, opposed to just being a download on their website. The app does a decent job for highlighting books, but iBooks has the slickest experience for highlighting which is one of the main reasons I choose iBooks for prose that I purchase. I wish the Kindle app would use the system default API for the dictionary and wikpedia. And being able to read graphic novels was finally added in a recent release. Though I also prefer iBooks for this as publishers, for whatever reason, often choose to put a higher DPI version of these on iBooks, which is the most important part of reading digital comics. For those who want to purchase directly in the app, note that this won’t happen until Apple allows it to happen. Apple requires developers to use In-App Purchases if an app wants to sell something inside the app. This may be good for smaller apps or even larger ones who don’t have their own infastructure for purchases (like HBO and Showtime, who are used to the cable companies selling their content, now relying on Apple to sell it), but is not the best deal for companies like Amazon who would make more than the 70% that Apple gives them for each purchase.

I’ve been a kindle reader for years. Use ipad kindle app and cloud reader all the time. I had some trouble with set up; it seems like it silently fails? If you can’t see your books this may help. (Change your password on the amazon site, Deregister from the preferences menu option, reregister with your new password). Not sure which part of that resovled the issue but my books are available.

Spent over an hour with Amazon support trying to get this app to sync bookmarks and highlights to/from the Kindle cloud. Discovered that the latest version in the App Store is 1.12.4, while the latest version available directly from Amazon is 1.15. Not acceptable for Amazon to leave a buggy version in the app store (last updated six months ago) while it (presumably?) fixes these bugs in newer versions which are only available from Amazon.com.

Solid, but not great. It feels like a bar port from a UNIX tool, not clean, modern. Worse: it didn’t support the latest DRM/file format from Amazon, only the iOS version did that. Bah! That said: still much better than iBooks, which is extremely slow, unreliable, crashes often, picks somehow “random” filenames, etc.

1. Needs performance improvements (e.g highlighting UI responsiveness slows down after x highlights) 2. UI is crowded and ugly - needs to get rid of tool bar in full screen. 3. SHOULD BE UPDATED REGULARLY - like any good app. Honestly Amazon has the money to do this.