Amazon Kindle for Mac Review

By Jim on March 19th, 2010

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I’ve been a big fan of Amazon’s Kindle for quite a while now. I own a Kindle ereader and I often use the iPhone Kindle app to read my Kindle books while I’m out and about. I’ve been waiting patiently for Amazon to finally come out with a Kindle application for the Mac and now it’s here.

Please note though that this version is officially considered a beta. So bear that in mind if you decide to download Kindle for the Mac. You may run into a few burps here or there.

Download, Installation and Help
Here are the system requirements for Kindle for Mac:

A Mac with a 500MHz Intel processor or faster

At least 512MB of RAM

Screen resolution of 800×600 or greater

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

100MB of available disk space

Drag and drop it into your Applications folder.

You can download the Kindle for Mac application from Amazon’s site. The file is only 9.2MB so it’s a very quick download. The install itself is, as you would expect for a Mac app, very easy. Just drag the Kindle app and drop it into your Applications folder.

If you run into problems, please note that there is a good help page available on Amazon’s site. I highly recommend reading the Using Kindle for Mac page; it provides a list of helpful keyboard commands as well as some other useful information.