Kindle for the iPad

Free

The Kindle app gives you access to all of your Amazon Kindle ebooks on the iPad. The Kindle app has been optimized for the iPad, providing users with a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. Take advantage of Amazon’s larger ebook catalogue as well as hundreds of thousands of free books. You can sync your books across your Kindle, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

Kindle Features:

• More than 620,000* Kindle books available in the Kindle Store, including 109 of 112 New York Times® Best Sellers
• New York Times® Best Sellers and new releases in the Kindle Store from $9.99, and tens of thousands of the most popular classics for free, including titles like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, and Treasure Island
• Free book samples—read the first chapter for free before you decide to buy
• Amazon.com customer reviews, personalized recommendations, and editorial reviews
• Customize background color, font color, and font size to your preference
• Tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages
• Read in portrait or landscape mode, with the ability to lock the screen orientation
• Add bookmarks, notes and highlights. To add notes and highlights, simply tap and hold on a word
• View Popular Highlights: See what the Kindle community thinks are the most interesting passages in the books you’re reading
• Amazon’s Whispersync technology automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all of your devices, including Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, PC, Android and BlackBerry. Customers can read some on one device and pick up right where they left off on another
• Pinch and zoom on images in books
• New Home library view with pinch, zoom and scrolling support
• New page turning animation that replicates the look of turning a page in a book. Customers who prefer a simpler, unadorned reading experience can use the default “Basic Reading Mode” option to turn off animation
• Adjustable screen brightness within the app to help reduce eye strain