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Kindle for Android gets a store and periodical support

By | December 17, 2010, 4:07am PST

Summary: Amazon continues to improve their Kindle clients and today we see that Android owners get a nice update with a Kindle store and support for newspapers and magazines.

I like reading ebooks on my devices and I just saw that a new version of the Kindle app appeared on my Samsung Galaxy Tab. As you can see on the Amazon site the new version adds an integrated store (used to take you to the web browser) and support for newspapers and magazines.

Another new feature that you may find helpful is the ability to double tap on an image to zoom in. This is nice for technical books with diagrams, screenshots, and pictures. The Amazon site states that you can also share your book reading progress, but I could not find this anywhere in the application so maybe this is something coming in the next update.

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Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle.

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Matthew Miller

Matthew is a professional naval architect by day and a mobile gadget freak at all other times. He purchases most of his devices and then sells them on eBay or Craigslist to buy more. Many other devices are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the carrier or manufacturer. If any are provided as “keeper” or “long term loaner units” this will be clearly disclosed in his reviews.

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Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle. He is one of three hosts on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and runs the Nokia Experts website. Matthew started using mobile devices in 1997 with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 90 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, Mac OS X (iPhone), Google Android, and Windows Mobile operating systems. His current collection includes a Nokia N85, Nokia E71, Nokia 5800, Nokia N810, Apple iPhone, HTC Advantage, T-Mobile G1, Palm Treo Pro, HTC Fuze, MSI Wind, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew co-authored Master Visually Windows Mobile 2003, was a member of the Nokia Nseries Blogger relations program, and is a member of the invite-only Microsoft Mobius mobile device evangelist group. He can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".

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