If you want to find an easy way to buy Kindle books on your iPad or iPhone, there's a shortcut. To learn more iPhone tricks, sign up for our free Tip of the Day newsletter. Even if you tap this shortcut, your Apple device will still prompt you to open the Amazon app. If you accidentally do this, you will have to return to your Home screen and tap the shortcut or follow the steps to open it in Safari again.
Apple collects a percentage of the money spent on digital purchases within the apps on its devices; and when you buy Kindle books on iPhone or iPad using Safari or another web browser, percent of the money goes to Amazon. So the answer to the questions, why can't I buy books on Kindle app and why can't I buy Kindle books on Amazon app is, Amazon doesn't want to pay.
This battle over in-app purchase commissions is why you can't buy a Kindle book after the sample and why you can't buy a Kindle book in the Amazon app on iPhone or iPad. This mimics how objects in the 'real world' look a little different under natural light versus artificial light. Download the free Kindle reader from the App Store. The Kindle app is compatible with both Kindle books and Audio Companions, but not with Audible books.
The app also supports the Kindle Unlimited subscription. After you download the Kindle app, log into your Amazon account to download the books in your library.
After you have connected the Kindle app to your account, you are ready to start reading. The app is divided into five tabs that are accessed using the buttons at the bottom of the screen:. Although you can browse through and read Kindle Unlimited books through the Kindle app, you cannot buy Kindle books, because Apple limits what can be sold through an app. As a workaround, use the Safari web browser and go directly to amazon. After you buy the book through the web browser, open the Kindle app and read it.
It should populate within a minute or so; the Kindle app must download it before you're ready to read it. And if you don't see it, tap the Sync button at the bottom-right corner of the library on the Kindle app to refresh all of your purchases. While you are reading a book, tap anywhere on the page to reveal a menu across both the top and the bottom of the iPad's display.
The bottom menu is a scroll bar that helps you zip across pages. This tool is great if you are resuming a book you've already started from another source, like a paper copy of the book.
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Below, the covers of other popular books written by the author can be found. Popular highlights are not listed in the About This Book section. If you want to find out what passages have been highlighted by other readers, tap the Menu icon and then Popular Highlights section see the screenshot below, on the left.
X-Ray is a unique featured available for some books in the Kindle Store. What is X-Ray? X-Ray is an all-in-one guide to characters, locations, and terms used in the book.
When you open X-Ray while being on a specific page, it will show on top the descriptions of characters and terms that are found on this page see the screenshot below, on the left.
In the X-Ray list, the character is represented by the profile icon. Beneath, you will find all instances when the character was mentioned in a book. The card presenting the terms is similar to characters but it includes the extended description from Wikipedia and a link to the full article.
A bar with the presence of the term in the plot can be found under the description. X-Ray is a great way to analyze the plot, and see how it develops: how characters evolve, and where the action takes place. In no time you can get free samples from as many books as you want.
And there is no better way to check out whether the book is worth buying than reading a couple of first pages. If you are in the Library view see screenshot below, on the left and use the Search feature to find the book in your Kindle library, the app will also suggest the books from the Kindle Store that answer the search term you entered. Each suggested book comes with ratings.
When you tap the cover or title, the free sample will start downloading. Free samples are not synced between devices, so it will stay only in your Kindle for iOS app until you delete it. When you tap the book cover in Before You Go section, a short description will appear, and a button to try the free sample see the screenshot above, on the right. The book lover who owns the iPad sooner or later will try reading an enhanced ebook.
The first destination to check out interactive and enhanced books is the App Store. The Books category lists many ebooks that are sold as standalone applications. Did you know you can also use the Kindle app to read ebooks enriched with multimedia, animations, and interactive elements? You can instantly switch it on and off with a tap of a button. There is, however, a way to listen to the Kindle book you have bought. What is Whispersync for Voice? There are over 60, Kindle books that come with audiobook narration.
How to find them? Amazon provides a clever feature that will let you find out which of the Kindle books you own have the Audible narration. You can find your match beginning at the Audible narration home page. Once you add the Audible narration to the Kindle book, follow the steps below to enable Whispersync for Voice. When you open this book in the Kindle app on the iPhone and iPad, the message about the availability of the audiobook will appear at the bottom of the screen see the screenshot below, on the left.
From now on, when you open a Kindle book with Audible narration, the icon of the headphones will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen see the screenshot above, on the right. Tap the headphones icon to reveal the audiobook bar and play the audiobook. While you hear the voice, the matching parts of the text are being highlighted. The magic of Whispersync for Voice is the ease of change between the reading and listening, and the beauty of delving into the story in different ways.
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