Amazon has rolled out an update to its Kindle for Android offering making the app more useful than before and taking the productivity to the next level.
Kindle for Android is an app from Amazon that lets users read Kindle books on their Android powered smartphones and sync their books with a variety of devices. This update makes Kindle the only Android based reading app that equips its users with the ability to add notes.
Here are the new set of features that Kindle for Android brings:
- Search within the book: Customers can either type or speak a word or phrase to search within a book.
- Add, Edit and Delete Notes and Highlights: Kindle for Android is the only reading app for Android-based devices that allows readers to add notes and highlights to books, and have them automatically synchronized between devices.
- Wikipedia Lookup: Look up words and phrases in Wikipedia simply by 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 many more features, and be able to view real-time discussions that the Shelfari community is having about the book.
- Orientation Lock: Choose to lock the orientation of their screen in landscape or portrait mode to allow for comfortable reading in any position.
So do you intend to get the latest update from the Android market?
[via Android Central]