Amazon Kindle for Mac Review
The Kindle for Mac Interface
I noted some of the interface already above, related to the Home screen and the Kindle store. But there’s more to Kindle for Mac than just those two things. Clicking on a book on the Home screen opens the book and from there you can navigate in a number of different ways.
You can tap the space bar on your keyboard to go to the next page or you can move your cursor to the right or left (outside the page text) and you’ll see a white arrow appear that will also let you move backward or forward to the next or previous page.
Note also that if you are using a Magic Mouse, you can use multi-touch gestures to turn pages or to go up or down too. I found this slightly difficult to use at first as I would go too far, too fast when trying to use it. But I got better over time and found it to be quite convenient eventually.
At the top of the Kindle for Mac window, you can click the Bookmark button to add a bookmark, click the Go To button to skip to a location or go to the Cover, Begging or Sync to Furthest Page read.
Click to turn a page or use multi-touch via the Magic Mouse.
Reading on the Mac
All of what I covered above is very interesting, but how well does the Kindle application work for actual reading? Is it comfortable? Is it easy to use? Practical?
Well, for the most part, I’m pleased to say that it is easy to use. While you may not always want to read on your Mac (versus your iPhone or an actual Kindle ereader), it’s certainly nice to have the option. I found myself quite at home using Kindle for Mac. I read some of Teddy Roosevelt’s autobiography while sitting at my kitchen table, sipping delicious Irish cream coffee.
I found myself simply tapping the space bar on my keyboard to move to the next page. Since I’m on a 27-inch iMac, I made the font larger to make it easier to see. The default resolution on my iMac (2560 x 1440) makes text pretty small, so it’s necessary for me to enlarge it for comfortable viewing.
There is a big difference between reading a mostly text based book and, for example, reading web pages. A text-based book doesn’t contain all the flashy stuff you see on web pages (ads, tons of images, etc.). The Kindle for Mac application provides a quiet kind of reading and I found myself really enjoying it.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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