Amazon’s Kindle eBook Reader is now available to Microsoft Windows Phone 7 users, spreading the joy of reading eBooks across more platforms. By adding Windows Phone 7 to the already extensive list of Kindle apps available for iPhone, Android, iPad and Blackberry, more people than ever can read on their portable devices.
The Kindle app quickly became the most popular download for Windows Phone 7 users and has features that were previously unavailable. New features allow users to take full advantage of Amazon’s Buy Once, Read Everywhere approach to Kindle apps. This includes a nifty bookmark feature, using Whispersync across all Kindle platforms that keeps your place, any highlights, and notes regardless of the Kindle eBook device you use.
With the ability to read in landscape and portrait mode, the Kindle app for Windows Phone 7 is easy to use and customizable. There are three different colored backgrounds and five fonts that the user can choose from, allowing for a personalized reading experience.
Kindle now also comes with a personalized recommendations feature that is built into the home screen and even allows the user to recommend their favorite Kindle e-books to their friends. The social component of reading has been introduced to the Kindle world with the ability to lend favorite books to friends for loan terms of up to 14 days. Risk-free loans in their best digital version!
The ability to re-download an Amazon Kindle purchase is reassuring with the new Worry-Free Archive, so if you ever lose or damage your Windows Phone 7, any Kindle e-book is always available to you. With access to more than 775,000 books on Amazon, the Kindle app ensures that it’s easy for users to amass an extensive electronic library, even on their smartphone.
The stellar rise in popularity of e-book readers and apps like the Kindle has taken the literary world by storm. With Amazon previously announcing the development of Kindle apps for Android and Windows-based LCD tablets, interest in multi-use devices used as e-readers will continue.
Despite the rise in popularity of LCD tablets and smartphones as e-book readers using Kindle apps, it seems that people are embracing cross-platform e-readers to ensure all their reading needs are met. This has enabled Amazon to effectively cover the market by offering cross-platform Kindle e-readers and Kindle apps to ensure tech-savvy people can keep their favorite reading material at their fingertips or at their fingertips.
The Kindle app for Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is now available for free download on the Windows Marketplace.
