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Kindle for Android

45 points by wwortiz 16y ago

tkahn6 16y ago
<50 downloads as of now
- wwortiz 16y ago
  Android market must be updated nightly or something with download count as there are over 380 ratings.
- RK 16y ago
  10k-50k as of 10:15pm PDT 28 June
ydant 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1469466 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1469466
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Estragon 16y ago
I forsee a lot of illicit copying in the future of Amazon's ebooks. An interesting question is whether this app will work in the emulator. If so, it means you can have ebooks on your laptop.
- wwortiz 16y ago
  There are already versions for laptops if you use a mac or windows (and at least you can VM this if you run linux and it doesn't work on a linux android VM) Mac: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000464931 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000... Windows: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000426311 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...
jrockway 16y ago
Doesn't work on my Magic + Cyanogen 5. Random words from my book show up, but they are interspersed with strings of Japanese and other random Unicode characters. Who knew that rendering a subset of HTML could be so difficult...
- rcoder 16y ago
  I don't really think that it's fair to blame Amazon for problems you have running their app on older hardware with a gray market ROM image. It's hard enough to run tests on the legitimate Android configurations active on the market. Trying to account for homebrew setups like Cyanogen would be a recipe for lots of pain and effort with very little payoff.
  - jrockway 16y ago
    How is Cyanogen any different from any other Android 2.1 image?
- ydant 16y ago
  I have the same issue - apparently this is a bug in Cyanogen mod (or at least they have a fix for it) - http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=1663#c35 http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=1663#c...
Niten 16y ago
Thanks for posting this. I registered with Amazon for email notifications when this was to be released, but they didn't send me anything. It works great on my HTC Incredible so far, including Whispersync with my Kindle 2. I wish it supported search and included a dictionary like my Kindle 2 does, but since even Kindle For PC doesn't have these features yet I suppose I'll have to wait. My one big UI gripe so far is that the phone's back button isn't used for navigation like the back button on the Kindle hardware; instead it takes you straight to the welcome screen. The navigation feature analogous to the hardware Kindle's back button is bizarrely exposed as a separate choice through the application menu.
eston 16y ago
As a Droid owner, I'm happy. I've been waiting for this. That said, I feel as if perhaps Kindle's killed itself. I can buy a $200 Android tablet with a decent, colour TN LCD and run this app on it.
lenni 16y ago
The barcode doesn't work for me: Item not found. I'm on a HTC Hero, Android 1.5 (argh), T-Mobile Germany. Are there any minimum system requirements? Edit: Duh, it says on the page that you need 1.6.

Kindle for Android

45 points by wwortiz 16y ago

tkahn6 16y ago

<50 downloads as of now

wwortiz 16y ago
Android market must be updated nightly or something with download count as there are over 380 ratings.
RK 16y ago
10k-50k as of 10:15pm PDT 28 June

ydant 16y ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1469466 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1469466

deleted 16y ago

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Estragon 16y ago

I forsee a lot of illicit copying in the future of Amazon's ebooks. An interesting question is whether this app will work in the emulator. If so, it means you can have ebooks on your laptop.

wwortiz 16y ago
There are already versions for laptops if you use a mac or windows (and at least you can VM this if you run linux and it doesn't work on a linux android VM) Mac: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000464931 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000... Windows: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000426311 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...

jrockway 16y ago

Doesn't work on my Magic + Cyanogen 5. Random words from my book show up, but they are interspersed with strings of Japanese and other random Unicode characters. Who knew that rendering a subset of HTML could be so difficult...

rcoder 16y ago
I don't really think that it's fair to blame Amazon for problems you have running their app on older hardware with a gray market ROM image. It's hard enough to run tests on the legitimate Android configurations active on the market. Trying to account for homebrew setups like Cyanogen would be a recipe for lots of pain and effort with very little payoff.
- jrockway 16y ago
  How is Cyanogen any different from any other Android 2.1 image?
ydant 16y ago
I have the same issue - apparently this is a bug in Cyanogen mod (or at least they have a fix for it) - http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=1663#c35 http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=1663#c...

Niten 16y ago

Thanks for posting this. I registered with Amazon for email notifications when this was to be released, but they didn't send me anything. It works great on my HTC Incredible so far, including Whispersync with my Kindle 2. I wish it supported search and included a dictionary like my Kindle 2 does, but since even Kindle For PC doesn't have these features yet I suppose I'll have to wait. My one big UI gripe so far is that the phone's back button isn't used for navigation like the back button on the Kindle hardware; instead it takes you straight to the welcome screen. The navigation feature analogous to the hardware Kindle's back button is bizarrely exposed as a separate choice through the application menu.

eston 16y ago

As a Droid owner, I'm happy. I've been waiting for this. That said, I feel as if perhaps Kindle's killed itself. I can buy a $200 Android tablet with a decent, colour TN LCD and run this app on it.

lenni 16y ago

The barcode doesn't work for me: Item not found. I'm on a HTC Hero, Android 1.5 (argh), T-Mobile Germany. Are there any minimum system requirements? Edit: Duh, it says on the page that you need 1.6.