It’s a match made in heaven—BlackBerry Passport, designed with voracious readers in mind , now has Amazon’s official Kindle app , courtesy of the Amazon Appstore rolled out with BlackBerry OS 10.3 . So, what does this all mean?
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Sit Down and I’ll Read You a Story Since the early days of the e-reader, Amazon’s Kindle devices have been liberating readers of library fines, dog-eared pages, misplaced tomes and heavy bags of physical books.
With the expansion of the Kindle service beyond Amazon’s own devices, the multi-platform app allowed even more readers to buy into the ever-growing digital library, which now includes millions of titles , all available now on the BlackBerry Passport.
The free app pairs with your Amazon.com account and allows you to read your purchased Kindle books on the go. Once you buy a title, it’s yours forever. You can re-download it as many times as you want if you need to delete a title from your device.
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Here are the details for the Kindle app:
Read millions of Kindle books and over 100 different newspapers and magazines with Amazon’s free application – no Kindle required. Book availability may vary by country. Already have a Kindle? Whispersync technology automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across various devices. Buy a book from the Kindle Store and get it auto-delivered wirelessly Adjust text size, read in portrait or landscape mode, and lock screen orientation Try before you buy – download and read the beginning of books for free. To continue reading, simply buy and download the whole book with 1-Click, right from your phone. Sample length will vary by book. Putting BlackBerry Passport’s Big Screen to Good Use So, how do your Kindle books look on BlackBerry Passport? In a word: awesome.
You’re getting a full page of text in fantastic resolution, with crisp, readable text you can resize or even change to a preferred font, and you can change the color scheme to sepia, for example. The black screen/white text combo is great for late-night escapes.
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And for those with a love of newspaper-type columns, you can set the page to a two-column format.
It all comes down to reading your books when you want, how you want. You can start on your computer, move to a Kindle Fire tablet and finish on your BlackBerry Passport, and with a number of free books in addition to paid titles, there’s no excuse to wait.
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Sound good? The Amazon Kindle App is available for free now on the Amazon Appstore.