Kindle Reader For Mac Osx

Kindle Reader For Mac Osx Average ratng: 3,5/5 3864 reviews
Finally, Kindle for the Mac is here. Across the board, Mac OS X versions of e-reader software seem to be an afterthought for sellers of e-books. Unfortunately, this seems to be more of the same.

Kindle allows you to read more than 450,000 books on your Mac. No Kindle required. Already have a Kindle? With Whispersync, you can access your library of Kindle books, notes, marks and more.

When Barnes & Noble launched apps for the iPhone version of its e-reader app, Windows, and the Mac (all of which appeared even before its standalone Nook e-reader), the Mac version was stripped down to the point of being barely usable.

And when Amazon launched a Kindle iPhone e-reader, and then a Windows version, a Mac OS X version wasn't even mentioned. After a long wait, however, Mac users can now read their Kindle collection on their iMacs, Power Macs, and MacBooks.
  • The Kindle reader on Mac is ideal for people that purchase, rent or borrow books from Amazon, which supplies the largest digital book collection. When you sign in to your Amazon account, you can access all Amazon books in your library.
  • Kindle for Mac is specifically for reading Kindle books, and doesn't handle any other media. On iOS, the same is available through the Kindle app. Amazon Cloud Player for Mac is for music purchased in the MP3 store.
  • Jun 08, 2010  IMHO Amazon needs to release a Kindle reader soon for both Windows and OS X. It'd be convenient if I could read Kindle books on my laptop when I don't have my K2.
  • If you don’t do this, Kindle for Mac will automatically update to the latest version which doesn’t work on Leopard. Alternatively, a better way to go is to use Kindle on OS X 10.5.8 is to use Kindle Cloud Reader which is Amazon’s online version of Kindle.

The 8.8MB installer download took under a minute on a typical broadband internet connection, and it's a typical drag-to-the Applications folder DMG installer. When you first start the reader, a dialog box asks for your Amazon account login. Sure, you can choose 'Continue without registering,' but then you wouldn't have any books to read. Clicking on 'Archived Items' brings up the registration box again.

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Your 'Archived' tab will then fill with any books you've purchased, which you can then download. Any book you're in the middle of reading appears at the spot where you last left off, regardless of which device you used. To turn pages, just scroll the mouse wheel, hit a keyboard arrow key, or click on the arrow next to the page. I miss that there's no page-turning animation like you see in the iPhone Stanza or Classics apps, just a quick snap to the next page. But that's more a matter of personal taste than a major complaint.

As on the Kindle device, you can't change a book's font, and all books use the same (albeit pleasing) typeface. But you can enlarge or shrink the font size and set words per line after clicking on the 'Aa' button in the toolbar at the top of the window. You can't ever hide this toolbar for a full-screen, text only screen, a real drawback that denies readers a more immersive reading experience.

By contrast, the Barnes & Noble PC e-reader lets you use any font on your system, and it even lets you switch to reverse type, which can help prevent eyestrain. And though the B&N Mac app is in many ways still less functional than this new Kindle app, it does let you read in full screen. It also let you choose any font and any background/font color combination.

Another drawback in the Mac Kindle software is that you can't shop for books from within the app—you need to fire up your Web browser and log in to Amazon's site. But these are limitations it shares with the PC and iPhone versions and with the Barnes and Noble readers.

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Is Mac for Kindle a success? I'll give it a more formal evaluation (and a score) once I've had a little time with it. But consider this: Barnes and Noble offers over a million e-book titles, while Amazon claims only over 450,000. In any case, however, true Apple fans probably won't be reading their e-books on their Macs, anyway, but rather on their new iPads with the slick iBooks app.

Well I’ve written and ranted before about free epub readers for Mac OS X. There are few such apps and those that are available seem to me to be limited as ebook readers. While I’d love to repeat and expound on my complaints, right now, I’d like to present you with a small list of epub readers I’ve found for Mac OS X.

Those looking for an epub reader for Mac OS X might want to try one of the free apps mentioned below.

Read more after the jump.

I’ve written about installing Stanza and Calibre and couldn’t help but complain about what I see as their limitations as readers. Now I’d simply like to list down some of their basic features. And I’m also writing for the first time about an app from Adobe. This list are in my opinion the top three epub readers for Mac OS X. There are other good ebook readers, but I have included in this only those that are free and those that support epub files.

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Here are the top three free that you might want to check out

  1. Stanza Desktop
    • Stanza Desktop allows for customization and can read books in various formats.
    • It can be installed on PPC or intel Macs running OS X 10.4.8 or later. The problem is that is is no longer in development and it appears it is no longer available for download online. Downloading is working perfectly again.
  2. Calibre
    • Calibre reads epubs and other file types and touts its ability to convert files from one format to another. It can also be used as a library manager, similar to iBooks library for iOS. The Calibre user interface looks dated and rather un-Mac-like, though.
    • The latest version runs on Intel Macs running OS X 10.5.2 or later. An older version for PPC Macs on OS X 10.4 and later is also available.
    • Download Calibre for Intel Macs, OS X 10.5.2 or later.
    • Donwload Calibre for PPC Macs, OS X 10.4 or later.
    • Installation instructions for Calibre.
  3. Adobe Digital Editions
    • Adobe Digital Editions boasts that it is designed specifically to be a fast and free ebook reader. It reads PDFs and epubs, and XHTML books and has “borrowing” suport. Like Calibre, Adobe Digital Editions has a “bookshelf” where you can see the digital books in your library collection. The bookshelf is a little is better looking than Calibre’s and so is the user interface. Actually It looks a little like the Kindle app for Mac OS X. It can read even DRM-protected books and is recommended by some book publishers.
    • Adobe Digital Editions can be installed on PPC G4 and PPC G5 Mac running OS X 10.4 and 10.5 and Intel Macs running OS X 10.4.1, 10.5, and 10.6. I’ve been able to install it successfully on Mac OS X 10.7.2.
    • Go to Adobe Digital Editions download page.

The Kindle app for Mac OS X is a better looking reader in my opinion. Unfortunately, the Kindle app is for reading books bought from the Amazon digital book store. It cannot read epubs.

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So what are my recommendation? Reading on Stanza Desktop, in my opinion, is the closest thing to reading epubs on iOS. Unfortunately it is no longer available. So at this point, it’s a choice between Adobe Digital Editions and Calibre for now. The good news is that both are compatible with PPC and Intel Macs on OS X Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Lion.

Adobe Digital Editions is prettier. To its credit, the app is also smaller: Adobe Digital Editions only takes up 19.1 MB of disk space compared to Calibre’s 218.1 MB. So points for Adobe here.

It is also available in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Dutch, Japanese, and many more languages.ntext menu. Free pdf reader for mac. Full Specifications What's new in version 0.9 0.9 has been the following additions: • Add support for FictionBook ebook format • Add support for PDF documents encrypted with Acrobat X • 'Print as image' compatibility option in print dialog for documents that fail to print properly • New command-line option: -manga-mode [1 true 0 false] for proper display of manga comic books • Many robustness fixes and small improvements. This means you can create an author PDFs in your favourite word processor or publisher.

On the PPC, Calibre is a bit of a memory hog and it tends to freeze once in a while. On Intel Sandy Bridge, performance is pretty much equal. Overall, I’d recommend Adobe Digital Editions for reading epubs. It’s still not as elegant an ebook reader as its iOS counterparts, but it’s the best of the free apps I’ve found.

Screenshot: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Adobe Digital Editions

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Do you use or like any of the ebook readers mentioned in the article? Do you know of other free epub readers for Mac OS X?

Are there paid apps that you use to read epubs?I would love to hear from people who have bought and used paid ebook readers for Mac OS X.

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