Does anyone have any experience with the Kindle iPhone app? I really enjoy reading on my iphone and I am curious about the kindle experience. I know the app is free, but the books aren't. Any avid users in here?
I use it regularly. I generally like it a lot with maybe two exceptions: I find it frustrating not to know what page number from the original book I'm on (you have to guess, based on the position of the slider) and the second is, so far anyway, I've found it doesn't reproduce photos very well. That may be a function not of the app but of how the documents were created, however. In my experience, though, zooming in on a photo just makes them too pixilated to enjoy. Still, I use it pretty much every day and enjoy it. It's great for reading in bed at night, much easier than books, I'm afraid to say (I write them for a living). The books I tend to buy with it are mysteries or similar type books that I normally might read once and then forget about, as opposed to books I might use for research. The savings is substantial, and as I said the reading experience for that kind of thing is a good one. Downloading has also been a smooth, easy process. If you like reading Project Gutenberg books, Eucalyptus is fantastic. It renders the old texts beautifully.
Yeah I downloaded it, and went ahead and bought Moby Dick for $0.80. I figure that is cheap enough to check the program out. It seems nice, except no real page numbers is a real pain. Moby Dick is 9700 "pages" long. How am I supposed to find the page I was on? I tried accessing the table of contents, and it doesn't do anything. I found that really annoying. But the way you can make the text white on black and sepia is really nice. P.S. is there a Kindle desktop app for OS X? So I can read the book on my macbook?
I don't know of one. The Kindle app on the ipod does have a bookmark feature, and in my experience it always opens up where you left off.
