Amazon Kindle: Reading App
Amazon Kindle: Reading App has 5,884,468 ratings (+0.6% in 30 days), averaging 4.9 stars, #1 of 9,661 in Book.
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READ ANYTIME, ANYWHERE
On the bus, on your break, in your bed—never be without a book. Kindle books you have purchased on Amazon will automatically appear in your app. Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime members can select and download Kindle books directly in the app.
FIND YOUR NEXT GREAT READ
• Read the books you buy on Amazon in the Kindle app. Choose from over six million Kindle books (including those with Audible narration), magazines, and comics and start reading in seconds. Explore Amazon Charts best sellers and titles across genres like romance, science fiction, children’s books, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more—and try any book with a free sample straight from the Kindle app.
• Kindle Unlimited members can enjoy unlimited reading and listening, with the freedom to explore over 1 million titles, thousands of audiobooks, and current magazines.
• Over 1,000 books, magazines, comics, and more included with Amazon Prime.
GO BEYOND PAPER
Turn your iPhone or iPad into a book with the free Kindle app—so you can read anytime, anywhere. Explore these reading features in the Kindle app:
• Read your way. Customize your text size, font type, margins, text alignment, and orientation (portrait or landscape)—and choose whether to turn pages from left to right or continuously scroll. Read comfortably day and night with adjustable brightness and background colors. Go to the Aa menu in your book to get started.
• Look up words, people, and places while you read. Breeze through words you don’t know and characters you can’t remember with the built-in dictionary, X-Ray, Wikipedia lookup, instant translations, and search within your book. Simply tap and hold a word to view its definition, or use the Google and Wikipedia links to get more information.
• Track your reading progress. See what percent of the book you’ve read, real page numbers (for most top titles), and how much time you have left in the chapter or book based on your actual reading speed.
• Bookmark places you want to revisit, and make highlights and take notes throughout your book. Open My Notebook to see all your notes in the same place.
• Hop, skim, and jump with Page Flip. Flip between pages or get a bird’s-eye view of your book with Page Flip—don’t worry, we’ll save your place.
• Zoom in on high-definition color images in Kindle books, magazines, comics, and manga.
• Sync your books across devices. When you’re reading a book, the Kindle app will automatically sync where you left off—along with any bookmarks, highlights, or notes—so you can start reading on one device and pick up where you left off on another.
• When you can’t read, listen. Switch seamlessly from reading your Kindle book to listening to the Audible book, all within the Kindle app.
• Get notified when authors you love have new releases.
By using this app, you agree to Amazon’s Conditions of Use (www.amazon.com/conditionsofuse) and Privacy Notice (www.amazon.com/privacy).
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★★★★★ Reading in Kindle format. presents multiple dimensionalities for appreciating what is being read TonyJABQ · 28 Oct 2026With Kindle, (1) I can highlight, highlight in different colors to make clear a different assessment ( review this passage later, this is the most important conclusion, and possibly critical to the analysis, etc). (2) cap this method makes possible a much more analytical 1st read of a book, whether fiction or nonfiction. Any book truly worth a 1st read is going to be worth a 2nd read, but that 2nd read is going to be far more accessible, memorable and constitute a set of valuable notes because of my method of using a digitized book. (3) It makes possible review of the book later by way of hi
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ghlights, and even highlights as colored. (4) Kindle is my library waiting for my attention: as soon as I hear about a book I’m interested in, I add it to my wish list. That is my pending library. Before this method, I had accumulated so many books that there was simply no more room for them. (5) Could I effectively maintain a written list of books I’d like to read, and then get them from the library or buy hardbacks or paperbacks? Yes, but this is so much more facile, and I can carry my entire library around with me in my pocket. Having the image and a brief review of the book in the wish list makes possible a decision among books that I’m going to read next. There are only so many books we can read in a lifetime,. So we need to choose carefully. -
★★★★★ A Revolutionary Idea MothertoSeven · 29 Aug 2026I got a Kindle when it was first offered and then influenced my family and friends to also get a Kindle! I love reading and I am usually reading 3-4 books at a time so Kindle made my life so much easier. Pop the kindle in my bag and no matter where I was or how long I had to wait, I could read, which made everything better. Now I have arthritis in my hands so holding a book is painful but the Kindle is easy. I also have Kindle on my phone so while everyone is on their phone, I am too! I also put Kindle on my iPad so if I have that, I can be reading. Long lines no longer bother me. Waitin
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g in an office no longer bothers me. Sometimes when I am called back to see the doctor or dentist or anybody, I will say: ‘Let me just finish this page.’ When I was teaching and the time would come for ‘Silent Reading’, I would let my students read on my Kindle or iPad. Sometimes they would come to my classroom before school or at lunch to read more when they could. Boys who said that didn’t want to read would find something interesting on my Kindle and start a book! If I had a hardcover or paperback of the book (which I often did), I would loan them the book to take home. They told other teachers who wanted to know what the secret was. Sometimes they would ask their parent to buy them a Kindle so they could read more. Reading is so important to me and I think it should be a part or everyone’s life so Kindle made a difference for me and for my students. It is Revolutionary!! -
★★★★☆ Incredible for accessibility but lacking some potentially cool customization features QUAD_RNDL · 7 Mar 2026I absolutely love this app. I love the ability to have the Page turn animation because it makes it feel a little bit more like I'm reading a real book. I enjoy reading in bed, but since I'm quadriplegic I can't actually hold a book and read it while lying down so this app makes it very easy for me to read while using voice control on my iPad to turn pages without the need of help from somebody else. I would love to see some more options for customizing your library. I think it would be awesome if there was an option to display your books with a spine view like a normal library that you would
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look at in person. It would be even cooler if you could arrange the books however you wanted. It could be a fun game to offer library customization options like backgrounds or shelving options by reaching reading goals within the app. As I stated above, I can't read physical books due to my disability so a virtual library is the main library I have and it would be fun to be able to display it how I want since I can't build a physical library without also having to purchase the physical books for no reason in my case. Functionally, this app is almost perfect and it offers a bunch of cool features. I do wish that I could purchase books directly in the app instead of having to go to the website version of the store and I would also really like the customization options that I listed above. Other than that, I really enjoy and I recommend this app to almost everybody I know that reads. -
★★★★☆ Wonderful appendage to the written word! Nivek d'Doow · 23 Oct 2025Kindle is wonderful with a few glitches, some books are written in the kings English and it hard to know which is which, so I sometimes have to buy multiple books and authors particularly when they are old classic rewrites and or language translations. Then there is the frustration with my favorite aspect the ability to read, along with audible, unless you match the exact edition, author and publication the audible option doesn’t work and the hunt is on and so is the expense. If kindle could make clear which books offer the listen while you read feature and provide an exact book and link to l
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audable they could save me a lot of time and the expense of having to buy multiple copies of the same book same edition only to find that it doesn’t have that feature, now I have, between audible and kindle, many different iterations of the same books, sometimes expensive and time consuming…. Other than that if the app could become gradually more user friendly I’d be thrilled and give it a ten star out of five as such 4 star it of 5 because I do love it, I can read or listen to my favorite books anywhere, with headphones, on speakerphone, in the car or through JBL type WiFi portable speakers. I can carry a classics library in my pocket….does anyone remember how heavy real books are when trying to carry them through an airport?..yes kindle’s great!!! -
★★★☆☆ Buggy with poor tools for the job NedMaxwell · 22 Aug 2025You’d think a piece of software designed to let you find and read books would do a good job at both. I have no real complaints about the ability to read books. Except for the problems I keep having trying to get the menu to come up. The only time I seem to have any luck is at the beginning of any chapter. Other than that, reading is fine. My real complaint is finding books. I tend to read a series of books and for some reason this software doesn’t really seem to care much about series’s. I should be able to easily find all of the books in that series, in order. Admittedly when I finish a book
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it will show me the next one, but if I go to the authors page, forget it. Secondly, I am on Kindle Unlimited. That means I read a LOT of books. Like 2-3 a week, often. You’d think the software would keep track of that so when I go back to an author after I’ve given him a year to get ahead of me on writing it would show me where I left off, out what other books of his I have read. Nope. Nothing there. Lastly is this annoying bug in the iPad version. At the end of a book, it pops up asking for a review. I rate the book, and that page pops up again. This is where I will select the next book in the series. But when I try to close that page you get back to the book, it will close the first page, but not the second one it opened. Annoying. Seriously, I know Apple knows how to make a decent interface. Do better. -
★★★★☆ New features remove what made Kindle better AJ Hostet · 7 Jul 2025Edit: another user did find a way to make it easier to highlight—yay! Unfortunately, I also discovered that they added several extra steps to DELETE highlights, so my review remains the same. In addition, the once fantastic light periwinkle blue is now a darker color that makes it harder to read what I’ve highlighted. Developers, please lighten it again! Make it a true highlight, otherwise what are we doing here? I’m floored. For months, I’ve been trying to move to other apps to avoid using Amazon’s products, but have remained with previously bought books because of the absolute ease of use, p
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articularly when it comes to highlighting. And now, inexplicably, the app developers have copied what made other apps infuriating—adding features no one asked for and requiring me to choose a color and untap it to delete highlights— an extra step every time. This is hilarious. It totally interrupts the flow of reading and takes a full half a second longer to undo my selection, adding a full second or two to every highlight when it randomly picks up an extra word. For someone who owns and reads over a thousand books in this app alone, that time adds up precipitously. Undo this. Whatever the bug, fix it so that I can easily unhighlight a sentence in one tap and keep reading. Please do NOT worsen your product. It’s such a small thing, but what are the chances of developers mimicking the exact flaws of their competition? -
★★★☆☆ Love the format, hate the app gameplayer488% · 5 Feb 2024The app hasn't changed in twenty years and it shows. It's nice to have all of my books in my pocket, on any device, but then it gets frustrating. VERY difficult to search my library unless I know exactly what I'm looking for. There's no "browsing" option that you can just scan what you have by author, by title, by content, genre, etc. Yes, it is possible to do this through a variety of archaic and inconvenient actions, but it's so unintuitive that it may as well be impossible. Show me a bookcase where I can see the binders and scan them or something. Let me set up a reading list (intuiti
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vely) so I can just go from one book to another. Let me bookmark a recipe in one book so I can just go to that whenever I want to, rather than having to bring up the book, then look up the recipe, then wait for it to come up... By that time, I've ordered, received and eaten a pizza and don't need the recipe anymore. Also, it's all too easy to accidentally buy the same title twice. When you buy Dostoyevsky's "The Possessed" in one format, for example, it should know not to advertise a different one to you! At the very least, it should tell you that you have it and this is a new version! Lastly, it should be able to read the book to you with AI, rather than charging you for an audiobook. Yeah, I know it's nice to sell the same book twice but you shouldn't train people to hack the app to get the most out of it. Here's to hoping the app changes (for the better) in the next twenty years! -
★★★★☆ Overall good but… Musicus1685 · 11 Feb 2023Kindle app is a great reader. However, it contains some extra features which would be AMAZING if they would develop them just a bit further so they could be put to more practical and more productive use. Kindle reader app for me, is more than just a reader like a little kindle device. It’s a productivity and learning tool and with a few little enhancements could be amazingly useful for that. Anyway, updated features are long overdue. 1. It would sure be nice if the highlights had major customizability (best) or at the very least, more color choices. As I’ve expanded my use of them, I have deve
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loped a system of highlights that act visual cues for myself for future reference. I have more ideas but the extremely limited choice of colors is frustrating that. 2. The flashcards feature works in a confusing and non-logical way. If I wanted to use the already existing ability to have highlights become flashcards, it only fills one side of the flashcard. It would be better if one could do something like allow me to choose to put adjoining highlights as a pair, the first on the front and the second second on the back. Then I could make flashcards from premises and conclusions in a book. I think that would get a lot of use from people like me who teach. 3. It would sure be helpful if I could select text across a page break with one selection rather than two separate selections. 4. Perhaps an option to read by vertically scrolling text would help with #3? -
★★★★★ I see work is being done on library functionality, but Diamondstud32 · 28 Sep 2021As an avid reader, I’d like to see more improvements for storing, organizing and finding books in my Kindle library in order to make reading Kindle books more enjoyable. 1) There should be a way to bring the categories into the library so I can filter by category and sub-category. For example: category Mystery; subcategory Police Procedural. I can shop for them this way in the Kindle store, I want to be able to view my library the same way. 2). There needs to be a way to quickly see which books have been read, and which have not. 3) There should be a private section in my kindle library that c
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an't be seen by anyone I hand my phone or tablet to. 4) I'd like a way to easily view a series of books in order. It looks like this is being done, but it doesn’t seem to work. Also, I’d like to be able to easily go to the next book in the series. Currently, when I finish a book, a page comes up showing the title and synopsis of the next book in the series. (Thanks for adding that, it has helped a bit to at least see the title of the next book in order). Ideally though, I’d like to be able to select the next book (if in my library) and be able to open it from there. Instead, I have to search my library. Thanks for considering there suggestions. -
★★★★★ I promise you you’ll like it ErenSkye94 · 1 Feb 2021There isn’t anywhere else I like to get books, even on apple products. There’s are so many free books you’ll probably never read them all, for every age range. Cheaper than buying most books in paperback, though I do collect some books for when I NEED that physical page feel. Access to listings for used books if you want that instead of the kindle version you can, though it’s cheap, not free. Classics also available free though I have bought a few for $1 just for a certain version or illustrations to show my daughter. If you don’t like a book or version you find for free no sweat you can just
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delete it, and if you do like it then congrats. Don’t be afraid to browse some regular priced books or even the $1 book selection, though I admittedly filter the books by the star reviews so I don’t end up with a bunch of duds by accident. Definitely nice when the power is out and you want something to do, though a word of warning. Adjust your settings according to your device and it’s battery. I have low brightness and page flip off on my phone but higher brightness and page flip on for my tablet since it can handle the extra drainage. I should also mention they have different fonts you can use for your books including one for dyslexia. I use it because I have weak eyes, would definitely recommend it for the long book journeys. You can add notes and highlight things if you want to as well, so that’s readily available if you need it, too. Ok, I’ve said enough, try it for yourself and who knows how many books you’ll find? Happy reading!
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