Decent reading experience

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.

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