Finally you can read Kindle books on your Android phone! As with iPhone, iPad and so on no Kindle is required. Or if you own a Kindle, access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you. Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync. Adjust the text size, add bookmarks, and view the annotations you created on your Kindle, computer, or other Kindle-compatible device. Read in portrait or landscape mode.

Now all of you Android users can read any of the 620,000 books available on the Kindle in the Android reader and sync your bookmarks and library across other devices. This way you can pick up on any device where you left off on your e-books on your laptop, Kindle reader, iPad and whatever.

The Kindle app will turn any Android tablet into a serious e-reader.

But there are some complaints out there about the Android app compared to the iPad version. The latest version of Kindle for the iPhone and IPad, which just came out last night, offers some more features: support for audio and video playback.

Well, if I buy andy book or magazine the first thing I ask for is video playback… of course it’s not. I want to read a book, if I want to watch it
I will go to the movies.

But the Android Kindle lacks a couple other major features: it has no full-text search, and you cannot buy books from within the app yet.

But it will be just a matter of time until Amazon will deliver those features, maybe even the essential video playback, which is absolutely ridiculous in my eyes.