Kindle iPhone App A Week Later
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In something that is all but unprecedented, there are now four of us over on Gear Diary who have, and love, the new Amazon Kindle2.
In fact, the four of us will be posting a joint review (a very very very long review) over the weekend or early next week.
I liked the Kindle immediately but the release of the Amazon Kindle iPhone application last week took it to an entirely different level for me. In fact, as much as I love the Kindle itself, I find myself using the Kindle application on my iPhone and iPod Touch to read almost as often as I do the Kindle itself.
The Amazon Kindle iPhone application isn’t nearly as full featured as eReader. It doesn’t have as many settings, or auto scroll, or the ability to read and landscape. (At least it doesn’t have those things yet.) It does, however, have one killer feature that makes it stand out and makes it the e-book reader of choice on the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
I truly thought that the new WhisperSync feature that was added to the second-generation Kindle was a gimmick. Now I’m finding that it’s anything but. Because of this little feature it no longer matters which device I use because no matter which device I choose I always find myself on the most current page.
If I’m reading on the Kindle and I close it and later open up my iPhone my iPhone knows to jump to the last page I was on the Kindle. If I close the iPhone application and open up my Touch, the book opens to the page where I left off on the iPhone. And if I go back to the Kindle the same process continues. For those of us who use multiple devices it is an absolute pleasure, something akin to the ability to have your e-mail messages accessed on your computer, your notebook, or your iPhone.
The WhisperSync feature does for e-books what services such as SugarSync or MobileMe (when it works) do for files and documents. It keeps your digital media in sync across multiple devices. That is the killer feature of the Kindle iPhone application and, in my humble opinion, it should be a required feature for any application that deals with digital media of any kind.
