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With all the Kindle reading applications for different platforms provided by Amazon, purchasing an actual Kindle device is not a necessity anymore. Kindle for Mac follows the same line: just make sure you know your Amazon account’s credentials and you can read away in a matter of minutes.

Kindle for Mac will automatically detect all the titles included in your library and a double click on the e-book's cover will quickly download it to your computer. Managing your Library’s content is rather intuitive, but the real fun begins when you discover the reading area: full screen support, 3 color modes (black, white and sepia), and, among others, text and brightness controls.

Kindle for Mac does not deliver very complex features and, if you are familiar with the portable device, there are no surprises for you. On the other hand, the app comes with the Mac OS X look and feel and an “easy on the eyes” design that differentiates it from other e-book readers.

The Looks

Kindle for Mac is styling a simple, somber and very efficient interface: the main window is displaying your Library’s categories on the left and the content of each subdivision on the right. Initially, your e-books are grouped into downloaded and archived items, and, if you use an Amazon account, you may also arrange them by collections (a drag and drop will do the trick).

The top bar allows you to set the sorting criteria (by Recently viewed, by Title or by Author) and the viewing mode for the library content (icon or list). It also includes a simple search field (works in real time, throughout your entire library.) On top of the main window, you can see the device name (the way it will appear in your Amazon account in the Registered Kindle Reading Apps list.)

The “Shop in Kindle Store” and the “Recommended for you” buttons will simply open the respective Amazon webpages in your default browser.

When you open an e-book, the whole window will become a reading area. The top toolbar also changes and the new buttons allow you to go back to the Library, jump to different locations within the book, access the Display Options panel or automatically arrange the text in two columns.

In reading mode, on the left side of the main window, three small icons open panels that will prove very useful: the Contents panel (allows you to navigate the e-book efficiently), the Search panel (look for specific text strings inside the document), and the Notes&Marks panel (view your own notes, highlights and bookmarks, but also the popular ones).

The Works

Your first contact with Kindle for Mac is in the form of a login window asking for your Amazon account’s credentials: you can sign up for an account free of charge in no time, or you can choose to continue without registering (read the small text above the Register button).

The Kindle for Mac FAQ clearly states that “Periodicals such as newspapers, magazines, and blogs, and personal documents cannot be viewed,” not even if you store them in your Amazon cloud. As it turns out, there is a workaround in the case of personal files.

Even though there are no import or export functions for that matter, you can drag and drop certain files on top of the Kindle for Mac Dock icon and have them added to your Library. As far as I was able to figure out, this works with PDFs (most likely because Kindle for Mac supports reading Print Replica titles) and native Kindle files (.azw).

You might want to consider converting the PDFs anyway (an application like Calibre will get the job done easy enough) so you can take advantage of the Display Options and rearrange the text in two columns (those features are not available for PDFs.)

The Display Options panel is important because here you get to change the background color and the brightness level. In each color mode, Kindle for Mac manages to adjust the brightness in just the right manner, conveying an “easy on the eyes” reading environment. The same area allows you to change the font size and word spacing.

By default, just like on the Kindle device, if you underline a word, a Dictionary explanation will automatically popup (the panel's Settings icon allows you to change the default dictionary).

You can easily disable the “Live dictionary preview” from the Preference window, in which case the popup panel will display only its default buttons: Highlight, Add Note, Copy and More, which leads to Book Extras by Shelfari (provides info on fictional characters), Google search, Report Content Error, Search this (word in this, Ed.) Book, or search on Wikipedia.

Using the Whispersync technology, Kindle for Mac will synchronize all the notes, highlights, bookmarks and so on, to your account, making them available on all your devices. However, this will not work with your personal documents or if the app is not registered to your Amazon account.

You can try bypassing the limitation by changing the location folder of your Kindle for Mac Library, via the Preferences window. The initial location is /user/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content/.

By default, the Library folder is hidden in Mountain Lion, but getting there is not that complicated: in the Finder status bar, navigate to the Go menu while pressing the Option key and the Library folder will become visible and accessible. Still, storing the Kindle Library content to a more accessible location could prove useful if you need to move it to another device or even to a cloud storage service: this way your notes should also be transferred.

In the case of personal documents, Kindle for Mac seems to be saving the additional data when you quit the application, so you should keep tabs on which device you are using and if your latest annotations have been saved.

The Good

Kindle for Mac is intuitive, easy to use, stylish and includes all the essential reading tools: you can customize the text display, search words in a dictionary, highlight text strings, add your own notes and more.

Since you get to use your Amazon account, jumping from one device to another is not a problem: you can pick up from where you left off in no time. Even if you choose to use it without an account and only with your own files, Kindle for Mac offers a relaxing environment that will transform your reading experience.

The Bad

Using Kindle for Mac means that all your reading material has to be in two formats: PDF or AZW. The alternative solutions for using your own documents still leave a big question mark: what if you need to extract or simply present your notes?

Kindle for Mac does not allow you to export any kind of data, not even for books bought from Amazon: the only way to share your thoughts is through Amazon services, which might not always suit your needs and can be quite frustrating, especially if you are reading for work and not for pleasure.

The Truth

Kindle for Mac is a great application if you agree to play within its boundaries and by its own rules.

Constraints and missing features set aside, Kindle for Mac comes with a clean and organized design, uses the space efficiently and, all in all, provides quite a relaxing reading environment.

Here are some snapshots of the application in action:

Reading is one life’s most essential activities. Especially nowadays, when we regularly process a mind-boggling amount of information, whether it’s for work, study, or simply pleasure.

With all the technological progress the way we read is changing too. You hardly see anyone today with hardcovers or printed newspapers, which have been mostly written off as expensive and inefficient. Instead, most of what we read is either hosted online or downloaded directly to our devices.

While it’s possible to read on our phones — Kindle e-readers, first introduced by Amazon in 2007, are a much better option, featuring a comfortable 6-inch glare-free ink display and an unbeatable 30-day battery life. In addition, close to 10 million books are already available on Kindle through Amazon — a few lifetimes worth. But is there a way to read them without getting a Kindle device?

What Is A Kindle Reader For Mac?

Good news is you can read Kindle books on Mac, using the Kindle Mac app. What you need to do here is download Kindle for Mac and all your previous electronic Amazon book purchases will become instantly available on your desktop or laptop.

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To download Kindle app on Mac for free:

1. Open App Store from the Applications folder

2. Search for Kindle

3. Click Get

4. Launch Kindle on Mac

When you launch the app for the first time, you’ll be prompted to enter your Amazon Kindle login, which should be the same as your regular Amazon password. This Kindle sign in will happen only once to connect your device to your cloud Kindle library. In a second you should see all your Kindle books downloaded to your Mac.

How to use a Kindle reader for Mac

Amazon made sure to keep the Kindle App Store process as seamless as possible to entice the largest amount of people to sign up for Kindle on Mac. And once you see all your books on your Kindle for Mac, using the app is very easy.

If you’re wondering where are Kindle books stored on Mac, they are by default located in the cloud Kindle reader, unless you specifically download them to your machine. But let’s break this all down step by step.

What do you do in case you don’t have any books on your new Kindle app for Mac? Just buy some on Amazon:

1. Go to amazon.com and search for an interesting title

2. Make sure to choose the Kindle Edition

3. Check out with your purchase and the book will be added to your Kindle reader for Mac automatically

Once you have some books in your Kindle Mac app, you can download them to be read offline:

1. Right-click on any book

2. Select Download

3. Double-click the book to start reading

4. Right-click again and select Remove from Device when done

With time, you’ll likely accumulate a large Kindle book library and, to make it more manageable, your Kindle on Mac lets you organize everything into collections:

1. Click on the plus (+) icon next to Collections

2. Select New Collection

3. Write down the collection’s title

4. Drag and drop the books into the newly create collection

You can create collections for the books already read, or the ones you’re still planning to read. Get creative!

It’s worth mentioning that avid readers might notice a sharp increase in their book spending once they get used to their Kindle for Mac. A great way to save here (and read even more) is to try Kindle Unlimited, which offers all-you-can-read books for Kindle for about $10 a month.

There are a few negative sides to the Kindle app for Mac too, however. For example, you can’t really export any books out of the app to read with other apps, since most of them are DRM-protected. Likewise, you can’t import your books into the Kindle reader for Mac. Well, at least the app is free! And if you don’t want to use the Kindle Mac app at all, you can still access your books using the cloud Kindle reader.

How to use the cloud Kindle reader

For those who only need to read on Mac occasionally, the cloud Kindle reader is the perfect solution:

1. Go to read.amazon.com

2. Use your regular Kindle sign in

3. Double-click any book in your library to read it

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The cloud Kindle reader generally mirrors all the features of the Kindle for Mac, with a notable exception of collections. So if you haven’t been previously using collections that often, reading in the cloud might be no different.

How to focus while reading on Mac

One indisputable bonus of having an actual Kindle device is not being distracted by all the notifications and other non-stop processes that are continuously happening on your Mac. But all you need to counter this is get an app that will eliminate all distractions.

HazeOver is the most perfect distraction dimmer for your screen. At the click of a button, it focuses all your attention on the currently active app window and sends everything else far into the background (saving you some battery life in the process). You can also precisely control the difference between your active window and background. Perfect!

How to take notes on Mac like a pro

Not all of us read for pleasure all of the time. Quite often we need to read something and take extensive notes: doing research, working, or studying for an exam. This is where some specialized annotation software with features like mind-mapping and flashcards can really help.

MarginNote is by far the best research companion out there. This powerful app lets you organize book notes from across your library in a single mind map, turn notes into flashcards for quick study sessions, export and import multiple note formats, and look up information with a built-in research browser. Finally you can collect all your notes from all the sources in a single intuitive app.

How to read the news all in one place

One area in which the Kindle Mac app lacks significantly is news-reading. Of course, today you can just visit most news sources online, but has that ever happened to you that you went down the rabbit hole of mostly irrelevant subjects for hours?

NewsReader is everything you like about the news without any fluff. Simply connect any websites, blogs, and publications to this news reader and it will automatically source all the updates via a timely RSS system. Plus, you can easily create custom collections and tailor the reading experience to exactly how you want it to be.

To create a new feed in NewsReader:

1. Click the plus (+) icon in the bottom-left of the app

2. Choose either to “Add new Feed” if you have a direct URL or “Search new Feeds” if you want to look for one

3. Paste the address or type in the name of the source you’re looking for

4. Click Add Feed

To sum up, if you want to read Kindle books on Mac, you just need to download Kindle for Mac app and enjoy the experience, or read online just as easily. But don’t forget to enter full concentration mode with HazeOver, write down interesting ideas with MarginNote, and maybe even get your daily news fix with NewsReader.

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