Poorly Designed for Students

Reading eTextbooks using this Kindle App for Mac can make annotations, definitions and reading experience very unenjoyable. First, for PDF-based eTextbooks there is no way to display pages side-by-side, like the regular print edition of the textbook would display, or like the Kindle apps for mobile devices allow. You have to look at a narrow, single page at a time, even though all desktop computer screens have wider displays rather than longer ones. Also, scrolling through PDF’s using a trackpad or scrolling mouse will jump semi-randomly through the pages of the book without any notice of the distance of the scroll taking place. Lastly, the annotation and highlighting bar will sometimes appear cut off outside the window of the app, and/or cover up the selection of the eTextbook that you’re trying to highlight, making it impossible to find the end of the phrase you’re highlighting.

Hank Brekke about Kindle Classic, v1.12.4