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Kindle For PC Beta Now Available to Download

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Now you don’t need a Kindle eReader to buy and read the 360,000+ books Amazon sells in its annoyingly proprietary Kindle format. The desktop app supports color photos, multi-touch pinch-zooms, and displays notes/highlights marked on Kindles and the iPhone.

https://gizmodo.com/every-win-7-tablet-is-a-multitouch-color-kindle-with-t-5387663

As for the Mac version? We’re still told that’s coming soon. [Beta Download | Press Release]

https://gizmodo.com/mac-getting-a-kindle-app-just-like-windows-5388837

Kindle For PC Features:

• Purchase, download and read hundreds of thousands of books available in the Kindle Store

• Read the beginning of any book for free before you buy

• Access your library of previously purchased Kindle books stored on Amazon’s servers for free

• Read books in full color including children’s books, cookbooks, travel books, textbooks and graphic novels

• Choose from more than 10 different font sizes and adjust words per line

• Add and automatically synchronize bookmarks and last page read

• View notes and highlights marked on Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, and iPod touch

• Zoom in and out of text with a pinch of the fingers (Windows 7 users only)

• Turn pages with a finger swipe (available in a future release for Windows 7 users)

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