I have been using the Kindle app for many years - first on a stand-aloe kindle and now on both a laptop and an i-pad. The seamless experience of purchasing a book is incredibly satisfying - just a few taps and the book I want is available on my device. No more waiting for deliveries nor making trips to the bookstore or waiting for library queues. This saves me time and hassle. One of the standout features for me is the ability to click on a word and instantly get its dictionary meaning. This has been a fantastic tool for improving my vocabulary without interrupting my reading flow. It's these thoughtful features that make the Kindle app not just a reading platform but also a learning companion. Additionally the convenience it offers is incredible. I travel a lot and instead of lugging around heavy books, I can simply bring an iPad wherever I go. Whether traveling, commuting, or just relaxing at home or on the beach or near a pool, I have an entire library at my fingertips,, which is so liberating. Overall, the Kindle app has transformed my reading experience. I highly recommend it - even to those who need that feeling of "turning the actual physical page". You won't be disappointed.

The 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 (intuitively) 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!

I held on as long as I could to the Kindle app on my laptop, until it finally refused to open anything, meaning I had to update my entire operating system. I miss the left-hand sidebar, and I also miss being able to just cut and paste text into a file easily - I figured out how to do it in this one eventually. The main thing is that I have to manually re-load every book I had already loaded into the previous version. I literally have over a thousand books, so this is tedious. But the best part is that I can actually delete books that I borrowed and that have expired. Before, the titles just stayed there whether I had the book or not. I still have to do this manually but at least the list doesn’t show a lot of books I have borrowed from the library or on Kindle Unlimited that have expired/been returned.

Edit: The fixed the massive popups on every highlighting attempt. Now, however, there’s an unnecessary double hop to highlight. Underline a passage -> get popup to select highlighting -> Then there’s another level deeper to select the color. Every single time. Why? There is more than enough room to have all colors available on this tiny palette. There is no need to hide the options on the first level, and it takes focus away from the content and puts it on managing computer menu decisions. I have taught usability courses, and this is what I would term “wouldn’t it be cool if…” Inexperienced designers will design something that seems cool to them little regard to how people actually use tools. “Let’s hide the other colors, then you can click to reveal them!” Menu-diving to highlight a passage is poor usability design. What is with these developers who think that someone wants a mass of popups every time we highlight a passage. EVERY SINGLE TIME, I get “No definitions found,” and “No Wikipedia entries found.” No kidding. Know why? That’s because there aren’t definitions for entire phrases or paragraphs. You don’t need to tell me that every time - I already know that. This is exactly why people say that reading on screen is so much more distracting. I can hear the developers saying “wouldn’t it be cool if…” What they should be saying is “what is most important in reading the printed word?” Focus, and not having to deal really cool popups on every action, with tons of ridiculous clutter,. I just wonder if these developers ever read a printed page in their lives.

It should not require 3 clicks to apply yellow highlighting, and It should be possible to set a default highlighting color. This design decision leads me to seek alternatives to Kindle, including purchasing more physical books. Design team: if you’re reading this, please see the other similar existing reviews and address this issue before your product receives more 1-2 star reviews. Recommendation: when the user taps to highlight, have the previously used highlight color come up directly under the mouse such that the user can just double click. Currently it’s set to the back arrow. If I’ve just clicked a button indicating I want to highlight, I am *never* going to use the back arrow to cancel my selection, I am nearly *always* going to apply the same color I applied previously. You don’t necessarily even need to include a back arrow on this menu. If the user wants to cancel the highlight they can click anywhere outside the color selection menu, the entire page of the book is a giant back button. With this design approach, the set of colors that pop up on the right now allow the user to set the default, and if the user double clicks it will apply the default color. Trying to be helpful here!

I think the Kindle app is great, and I find platforms like Apple Books and Google Books to be excellent as well. I have invested thousands of dollars in books across all of them. However, I do have a couple of complaints.Firstly, the price of digital books often exceeds that of their paper counterparts. Given the absence of printing, shipping, and physical storage costs, one would expect digital versions to be more affordable.Secondly, I find it frustrating that none of these companies allow third-party apps to access and integrate the books customers own from different platforms into a single library application. This would eliminate the need to remember where each book is stored. Just as I can purchase physical books from various stores and organize them in my home library, it seems reasonable to expect similar functionality for digital media on a single device. This would hold true even if they were still "watermarked" in some way to identify which platform they belong.

I have nothing good to say about this "upgrade". My classic worked fine but I was forced to download this new version since the classic would not be supported after Oct. 31. I wish I had waited until Oct. 31 to change. I select a section that I want to copy but instead of being able to copy it highlights (and I don't even have a choice of colors). There is no icon for copying or making a note. In fact there is no menu at all. The only way to unhighlight is to select one word in the section and then you get the menu with the four colors and an X to unhighlight. And this menu has a copy icon and not icon. So I can copy one word at a time. Thank you for making it so easy to copy!! NOT!!! Not instructions or helps are included with the Kindle for Mac. I spent a great deal of time trying to find my collections - at a time when I was preparing a document for a teaching assignment and time was of the essence. I still haven't found how to sync my library. And I can't find a place to change the view to one page instead of the double page. What have I found that I liked? Nothing. If I could I would rate this with no star.

I came over from the web-based version of an exact ebook. The experience as a whole was spectacular, online - until it wasn’t. Servers seem not keep up with synchronicity capabilities that these products should do seemlessly, at all at times. I shouldn’t have to upkeep a constant clearing of my history or cache to keep things operating as a user. Now you may see why the subject may come off as biased for the worst, But I genuinely like the web ver, as for the ebook via the laptop ver loses a lot of the functionality I was already use to. E.g., basic pinch-out to zoom into a page you find of interest/focus or the nearly zero latency from turning pages; little things that you wouldn’t have thought made all the difference, yet w/o them feel so out of place and limited in the app. Differences asides, it works, availability is there, highlights and annotations remain - and don’t disappear due to cloud synching errors. Probably 4.5 stars if I never encountered the fluidity of the web-based ver first.

This app has been a life-saver for me as a graduate student with disability needs. Unfortunately, neither of the main features that I desperately need access to works anymore with the new "updated" version. I've troubleshooted everything from uninstalling the old app and re-installing this new app, multiple times now. There is no Tool menu now? Huge oversight. How does anyone access text-to-speech? Did you get rid of this crucial feature? I cannot find it anywhere despite poring over help columns. I'm even getting a strange technical error trying to use the sound control bar to playback my Kindle reading that "copy limit has been exceeded." What?? I never even copied anything, I am just trying to play the Kindle in audio format! In addition to that, there is no way to view page numbers anymore for my books! I've searched through both the bottom left and top right menus, and there's no option there... I need to cite my sources! Please fix this ASAP; I cannot get my homework done like this and will have to find a new permanent solution somehow if the app continues to be this dysfunctional...

I am a graduate student and as we move more and more to online books, I am frustrated that I cannot find PDF’s of important books and manuals that I know I will use for the rest of my graduate studies (and hopefully doctoral life). For this reason, I appreciate that Kindle at least has these books available, however they are abysmally prepped for crucial note-taking features that my Notability app has. So my main concern and reason for rating it so low is that I would appreciate if Kindle had more connections with note-taking apps such as Notability. It would make it so much easier to have all my books in one place where I can highlight, tape, red-line, erase, make direct notes in the margins (not through a text box) but directly with my apple pen. As we move further I can see more and more professors (like me one day) needing these features and kindle has ties to nothing. Not notability, not with Apple Books, Files, Google Cloud, Notability, Notion, nothing. They kind of sit in their own box unable to do anything.

There are so many things bad about the new iteration of the app that I had to make a list:1. The previously available ability to adjust side margins is gone, which makes for a terrible reading experience when viewing books full-width (i.e., distraction free) on a MacBook or desktop screen. Doing a search for a word is particularly horrible because you can't format the results in columns, which means sentences running unbroken for sixteen inches across or more!2. Now every time something is highlighted several very annoying popups appear and cloud the page, including a dictionary, translate, and Wikipedia search window. 99% of the time these are unwanted and unnecessary.3. The previously available 'Go to page/location' function is gone. Why??? What is the point?4. With many books figures for both pages and locations used to be shown onscreen; open the same book now and it might show one or the other but never both, which is a nightmare when you've been previously using the text for research or in footnotes.5. In my case the ability to save annotations and highlights has been rendered dysfunctional; instead I now get a message popup saying that my email address is not available. Why should annotations have to be emailed at all? In previous versions of app you could just save it. Looks like a crass attempt to capture emails from users.Bottom line: total disregard for a large segment of users, and a huge step backward!

Please fix this app so you can copy and paste like we still live in the 21st century. I should be able to use a shortcut. I shouldn't have to click to highlight, then click to copy, then click to unhighlight what I didn't even want to highlight in the first place I just wanted to copy. What's even worse is if you want to copy a section with multiple highlights you must highlight everything in order to copy and then either keep it all highlighted or delete that highlight and highlight again the specific lines you want highlighted. Sometimes you can't even copy at all because it says you've reached a limit. This isn't the only problem. There are other bugs that make the reading exprience unpleasant. The table of contents side panel is sometimes oddly spaced and as far as I can tell there is no way to uncollect a series of books. There is potential here, but my goodness did you all even test this app before you released it? Are we the testers? Are we getting paid to do your work for you?