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 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.

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.