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| Kindle for Windows 8 |
After downloading and signing in, Kindle preview automatically listed my purchased books. So the books are stored in Amazon's cloud until I choose to download them to my PC's drive for reading. The download was flawless. I did get a connection error after I switched to another app during the download. My first thought was that the app was designed to not take advantage of Windows 8 multitasking. But I was wrong. It worked just fine for the second download. One feature I'd like to see is the ability to download multiple books at a time.
Once the book is downloaded, it opens up fast and navigation is easy. A right click reveals the top menu with options like Bookmark, Go to etc. The tools you're already familiar with in other versions of Kindle on other platforms. The right click also reveals the page slider at the bottom.
Right clicking on a word lets you highlight the word and append a note to it. Unfortunately, the dictionary is missing here. I like to think that this feature will be added later but I do not understand why amazon decided not to include such an important tool in its preview.
By default, the books open full page and there is no way to have two columns. While this does not really bother me, I know of some who will miss this feature.
Kindle preview is still a work in progress and I hope Amazon will soon update the app to include the missing features mentioned above. I nearly forgot, I want to see browsing tool that will let me upload books from my computer.
Kindle Preview can be download free on Windows Store.
Sent from my Windows 8 PC
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