Amazon kindle reader for mac desktop12/17/2023 ![]() ![]() :-P *Bleh* -> Use another reader if you value your sanity. It still gets an "F" from me, one measly star. Oh and there is NO HELP! - Take away message: Amazon's Kindle coding team is lazy, careless and ignorant of Mac GUI standards. It clearly has had poor, if any, user testing. Then you click the ellipsis (.) to the right of the listed paragraph you wish to UN-highlight. You have to go into Annotations mode, activated by a notebook icon visible when you move your cursor to the top of the reading window. IDIOTIC! (3) Then UN-highlighting text is a serious PITA! Oh Amazon. (2) The TTS reads the paragraph ABOVE what you highlighted on a page before it reads what you actually highlighted. Clicking on paragraphs dumps you the page selector, like that makes any sense. However, having ignored Apple's GUI standards, (1) The ONLY way to highlight text is to drag your cursor over it. IOW you can use Opt-Esc (or whatever you've set up) to read highlighted text. ![]() Text-to-speech now works, without having to use workarounds (!), using Apple's built-in TTS system. (c) Translate among 23 different languages. WTF Amazon! W T F ! Why can't they follow the rules? - REVIEW of v6.85.3: It has a bunch of new features, including the ability to (a) Use Google search to look up words in a dictionary (b) Use Wikipedia to look up subjects. SADLY, it's still betaware, having some annoying bugs and NOT following Apple's GUI standards. This will be the official Kindle reader app going forward. (2) Happily, Amazon has updated the NEW 'Amazon Kindle' app to version 6.85.3, now available at the Mac App Store. It's final version is 1.40.3, available at the Mac App Store. UPDATE: (1) 'Kindle Classic' is now EOL and will not be updated past October 31, 2023. Switch seamlessly from reading your Kindle book to listening to your Audible book, all within the Kindle app. When you’re reading a book, the Kindle app will automatically sync where you left off-along with any bookmarks, highlights, or notes-so you can start reading on one device and pick up where you left off on another. Zoom in on high-definition color images in Kindle books, magazines, comics, and manga.Flip between pages or get a bird’s-eye view of your book with Page Flip-don’t worry, we’ll save your place. Open My Notebook to see all your notes in the same place. Bookmark places you want to revisit, and make highlights and take notes throughout your book.See what percent of the book you’ve read, real page numbers (for most top titles), and how much time you have left in the chapter or book based on your actual reading speed. Simply click and hold a word to view its definition, or use the Google and Wikipedia links to get more information. Breeze through words you don’t know and characters you can’t remember with the built-in dictionary, X-Ray, Wikipedia lookup, instant translations, and search within your book. Look up words, people, and places while you read.Go to the Aa menu in your book to get started. Read comfortably day and night with adjustable brightness and background colors. Customize your text size, font type, margins, text alignment, and orientation (portrait or landscape)-and choose whether to turn pages from left to right or continuously scroll. Explore these reading features in the app: Turn your Mac into a book with the free Kindle app-so you can read anytime, anywhere. ![]()
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