This is is not a browser based application. The client application can be downloaded from http://www.amazon.com/KindleforPC . Installation is painless; you will be prompted for your Amazon account and password.
Once you're up and running, how useful the KindleForPC service depends on what type of books you Kindle. A lot of my purchases are technical books, and the illustrations often do not render well on the small e-Reader.
Graphics on the KindleForPC can be expanded making illustrations easier to read.
Amazon takes care of page synchronization. If the same book is downloaded to both the KindleForPC and the Kindle, Amazon keeps track of your most recently read page. If you are reading from the PC and stop on page 63, pick up the Kindle and it will take you to that page automatically. Naturally, the same goes for annotations (notes and highlights) - they are synchronized too.
One minor variation between the platforms is newspapers. I really like buying single editions of newspapers for my Kindle. But the KindleForPC only offers the subscription option.
Will KindleforPC sell more Kindles? Will people download the application to their PC for access to cheaper books but not buy the Kindle? I don't know. For those of us that have already purchased a Kindle, providing yet another way for us to access our purchased Kindle content is a good thing.
I can also use my iPhone in addition to my kindle and the devices automatically synch with each other; it knows the last page I read no matter if it was my kindle or iPhone!
ReplyDeleteI was wondering about that as I was evaluating the KindleforPC. I suspect much of the codebase is the same.
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