It’s hard not to view the Kindle Cloud Reader as Amazon’s attempt to find a way onto the iPad in a way that bypasses Apple’s restrictions on app development. Still, Kindle Cloud Reader seems like a great option for people who are using a shared computer, perhaps at a school computer lab, since it gives you access to all your Kindle books without having to install any software. On a desktop browser, the Kindle Cloud Reader lets you choose from five different margin widths and five different font sizes the native Mac app offers 12 different font sizes and something like 20 different margin widths. Kindle for Mac app, since it offers many more text and formatting options. That’s great, but if you’re going to do a lot of reading on your Mac, you’re probably better off downloading the free (Kindle Cloud Reader doesn’t work on the iPhone.) That means you can read Kindle books on pretty much any Mac or PC. But it’s important not to miss the fact that Kindle Cloud Reader works on Safari and Chrome, too. It would be easy enough to do (for instance, we set Safari to "Private browsing" on a Mac, and the Cloud Reader would not launch we got a blank page), but Apple would certainly face some backlash.Coverage of the Kindle Cloud Reader has largely focused on how it behaves on the iPad-and with good reason. How Apple will choose to deal with such apps is unknown, though some fear that Apple could simply disable Web apps in the iPad's Safari browser. ZDNet: Beginning of the HTML5 surge vs.
Apple approves new store-less Nook iPad app.Kobo creating HTML5 Web app to buffer Apple.Apple forces Amazon to alter Kindle app.But Amazon offers a caching feature that allocates 50MB of storage to your iPad and allows you to view your e-books "offline" just like you can with the Kindle iOS and Android apps. Of course, you'll need an active Internet connection to sync your library to your PC or iPad, as well as to access the Kindle Store. On the surface, the new Kindle Cloud Reader looks a lot like the Kindle iOS and Android apps, and by simply logging into your Amazon account, you gain access to your e-book library. Library view of the Kindle Cloud Reader (click to enlarge).
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