Kindle for Android: Now with Voice Search, Annotations and More

Amazon has released a free upgrade for its Kindle for Android app.

The new edition brings a number of convenient features already available on Kindle devices and other mobile apps, including the ability to perform full-text searches of e-books by type or voice, browse Wikipedia, and lock screen orientation in portrait or landscape mode. Users can now also add notes and highlights to the text, which will automatically sync with their e-readers and Kindle apps on other mobile devices.

In addition, users can now access further information, including summaries and discussions, about the books they are browsing or reading from Shelfari, the book-focused social networking site Amazon acquired in 2008.

Although the new app is a significant upgrade from the original edition [mashable link], it still lacks some of the functionality of apps for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, such as support for embedded audio and video clips. Nor does it allow you to change font styles or navigate a book by page number, two small but nevertheless appreciated features offered by Barnes & Nobles’s e-reading app. Those deficiencies aside, we believe that the additions — in particular, voice search, automatic sync and annotations — make it the most robust e-reading app now available for Android users.

[via mashable]

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