Write Notes and Audio-Look for Text on Android’s Kindle App [Android Apps]

The free Kindle app for Android phones has been updated today, bringing it more in-line with the iPhone app for full text searching, scribbling notes and highlighting sentences. It could actually even search for unknown words in Wikipedia.

Other additions include the screen-lock orientation, which now supports both landscape and portrait, and Shelfari compatibility for looking up further information on a book.

Full details are below, but while you already have the Kindle app , better check for updates stat.

SEATTLE – Sept. 23, 2010 – Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Kindle for Android, the free application that lets readers world wide enjoy Kindle books on their Android-powered devices, now features a number of latest features that make it even better. With the latest update, Kindle for Android now enables customers to go looking the total text of Kindle books by voice or text, seamlessly search for words and phrases in Wikipedia, lock screen orientation in portrait or landscape mode, and consider details about a book on Shelfari, the books-focused social networking site – all without leaving the app. Additionally, Kindle for Android is the only real reading app for Android-based devices that permits readers to add notes and highlights to books, and have them automatically synchronized between devices. The app is out there from Android Market and customers who have already downloaded the app will receive the update automatically. Customers can learn more about Kindle for Android at www.amazon.com/kindleforandroid and download the app from Android Market.

” Customers tell us they love the freedom and adaptability of our Buy Once, Read Everywhere approach because they always have their full reading library at their fingertips and never lose their place in a book-whether they’re reading on a Kindle or one of their other favorite devices,” said Dorothy Nicholls, Director, Amazon Kindle . ” We’re excited to look our customers’ positive response to the Kindle for Android app and we predict that consumers are going to enjoy the updates we’ve made.”

The free Kindle apps allow customers to find out and browse over 700,000 books inside the U.S. Kindle Store – the most important selection of the most well liked books that folk wish to read – including Big Apple Times Bestsellers and New Releases from $9.99. Kindle allows you to Buy Once, Read Everywhere – on Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry and Android-based devices. Amazon’s Whispersync technology syncs your house across devices, so possible pick up where you left off. With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up online for your Kindle library on Amazon where they are able to be re-downloaded wirelessly free of charge, anytime.

New Kindle for Android features include:
- Search in the book: Customers can either type or speak a word or phrase to go looking within a book.
- Add, Edit and Delete Notes and Highlights: Kindle for Android is the best reading app for Android-based devices that enables readers to add notes and highlights to books, and have them automatically synchronized between devices.
- Wikipedia Lookup: Search for words and phrases in Wikipedia by using selecting text.
- Shelfari Book Details: For the first time, customers can view additional book details from the books-focused social networking site Shelfari. Readers will find a description of the book, synopsis, summary, cast of characters, and lots of more features, and be capable to view real-time discussions that the Shelfari community is having in regards to the book.
- Orientation Lock: Favor to lock the orientation of their screen in landscape or portrait mode to allow for comfortable reading in any position.

Customers can learn more concerning the free Kindle for Android reading app at www.amazon.com/kindleforandroid and might download the app from Android Market.

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