Kindle Classic App Reviews

Cant get the app to open. Just keeps crashing. Uninstalled!

It says that the app is compatible with 10.6 and above. This is Wrong!!!. Did some digging on the Amazon site and there it says it needs 10.9.5 or higher. Thanks for breaking my app Apple!!!

If you can buy / read your books elsewhere, do it. This app is just pathetic, worse than Kindle cloud reader.

Very disappointed in this app. I just bought a couple of new books, but I can’t read them on my computer because the Kindle app doesn’t seem to recognize or load them. (Reading books on my laptop is not my preferred reading method, but sometimes it comes in handy.) That said, the iPhone and iPad apps work fine.

Download the Mac app directly from the Kindle Store on Amazon’s website, it’s a way better version that doesn’t look and feel like it’s been programmed 5 years ago

Well, it is old and rusted. Lot of bugs with new OS X and UI is ancient.

New content was not appearing or downloading. I tried “deregistering” from my Amazon accout as a fix; now it won’t let me register so all previously downloaded content is gone too. iPad and iPhone apps work fine; the Mac app needs some TLC.

Crashes every time I try to open it. Absolutely useless!

This update DOES NOT WORK! It wont even open. Thanks a lot! Would never have updated if I had known. The other version worked fine.

The user experience is horrible!!

New books = “download failed” Back to version 1.11.2 everything is okay. OS X Yosemite 10.10.5

Downloaded this app because the one from Kindle site stopped working. Today this app also stopped working. I’m really not impressed. Guess I’ll be trying to get info from Kindle Support.

I have a latest MacBook Pro, running latest OS, d/l’d this app and it just opened and crashed, as does the Kindle app I already had. So now what can I use to open Kindle books? I know, other than a Kindle device.

Updated to the current version (1.12.3) running OSX 10.10.5 and immediately afterward I could not download any new books to my Mac. Be warned! Running OSX 10.11, same issues continue.

The mac app has got to be the most forgotten about software from amazon.

It’s amazing that with so many bad reviews and comments, Amazon has done nothing and just keeps plodding along. I guess that enough people can get their reading done by their Kindle readers as I am and they could care less about the fact that their app is so bad and basically useless.

This app is just bad. Scrolling through books is irritatingly slow and often you are (for some reason) taken back to the top of a page when you finish scrolling through it instead of to the next page like you’d expect. The sidebar icons make no sense and finding bookmarks you’ve made earlier is needlessly hard. Amazon: just make this app a wrapper around your Kindle Cloud Reader and be done with it. Instant improvement.

It’s clear that the primary design goal for this application was to limit what the purchasers of Kindle books can do with them. Everything about Kindle books, from the proprietary book format, to the crippled application functionality, is designed to support this primary goal. Making the application useful took a back seat to this primary goal. One of the primary reasons to purchase a reference book in electronic format is to copy and paste short passages into another application. You can’t do that with a Kindle book, as the copy command has been disabled, even for single words. Another reason is to bookmark interesting content. Although you can create bookmarks, you can’t name them, and there is nothing to let you organize them. If you are a researcher, you’ll want to have multiple pages open from either the same book, or different books, so you can compare them. You can’t do that. Citations are out of the question. Of course, there is no way to loan a book to a friend. There are advantages to electronic books, but in general, the only reason I can see to purchase a Kindle book instead of another electronic book format, such as ePub or PDF, would be because of a massive price difference in favour of the Kindle book. If your only intention is to read inexpensive fiction, this application may work well for you.

As a first year comp science student, one of the first things I learnt is that a programmer should test what ever prog he/she makes to make sure it works propperly before publishing. yea, the devolpers of this app definitely didn’t test it. can’t even scroll propperly.

Just had a frustrating and ineffective call with Amazon Kindle customer service about an item that refuses to download. They wanted me to completely remove the application and reinstall and reregister, insisting that THIS time it would work. All the while they kept saying there is a more recent App. They refused to recognise the version number in the App Store is the same version I already have. A waste of time. A request to speak to the supervisor led to … 15 minutes of being ignored. They succeeded: I hung up. And have written my first ever negative review, anywhere.