The reading interface in the native app (left) and the web app (right). The web app displays most of its menu options via a toolbar that drops down over the top of the page, while the options on the iPad app fade in seamlessly over blank space. The web app displays the black bar at the top of the iPad’s screen at all times, showing you the time, your battery status, and wireless connectivity, while the native app only displays that information when you tap to reveal the various page controls. In both interfaces, you can tap on the screen in order to toggle the display of various reading controls, including text settings, a link to the book’s table of contents, and a slider that lets you jump anywhere in the book. The reading experience in the two apps is quite similar, but here there are some notable differences, too. To see all books that have been downloaded, you tap on the Downloaded tab at the bottom of the screen. To store a book locally on your device in the Cloud Reader, you must tap and hold on its cover, then tap “Download & Pin Book” from the resulting pop-up menu.
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To read a book in the Cloud Reader, just tap on its cover art while tapping in the Kindle app will download the entire book to your device, the Cloud Reader web app will start loading the book over the Web and display it right away. Recently Amazon’s Kindle app was updated to remove a link to the Kindle Store because Apple mandated it the only financial transactions allowed within iOS apps must use Apple’s purchase system, which Amazon can’t use due to the financial model of the ebook business. It’s hard not to view the Kindle Cloud Reader as Amazon’s attempt to find a way onto the iPad in a way that bypasses Apple’s restrictions on app development.
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Still, Kindle Cloud Reader seems like a great option for people who are using a shared computer, perhaps at a school computer lab, since it gives you access to all your Kindle books without having to install any software. On a desktop browser, the Kindle Cloud Reader lets you choose from five different margin widths and five different font sizes the native Mac app offers 12 different font sizes and something like 20 different margin widths.
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That’s great, but if you’re going to do a lot of reading on your Mac, you’re probably better off downloading the free Kindle for Mac app, since it offers many more text and formatting options. (Kindle Cloud Reader doesn’t work on the iPhone.) That means you can read Kindle books on pretty much any Mac or PC. But it’s important not to miss the fact that Kindle Cloud Reader works on Safari and Chrome, too. Coverage of the Kindle Cloud Reader has largely focused on how it behaves on the iPad-and with good reason.
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