Googlejust optimizedtheir Books site for both the iPhone and G1 , and it ’s great . But more exciting is news show that Amazonmay be bringing Kindle appsto wandering phones .
The fresh mobile Books site is great ( it ’s atbooks.google.com/m ): it offers approach to the full catalog of complimentary work , downloadable in fast chunks for translate on the go . grant , you have to have an active net connection ( there ’s no offline viewing potential ) , and the catalogue does not include Kindle ’s Modern releases . But the interface is capital , and it remembers your recently see book and bookmarker where you go out off when you revisit them . Pages are download 15 at a time so you ’re not constantly flip out to the next one .
But back on the subject of the Kindle , theNew York Timesis reporting that Amazon is close to offering a Kindle - like service for fluid phones , with full access to their all-inclusive e - book storage and offline reading on the small screen .
I ’m still not at all emotional to read books on midget ( or even moderately sized projection screen ) , but I know a passel of people are , so this is pretty cool . We ’ll see if there ’s any Holy Writ on a mobile Kindle store on Monday , when we ’ll be coveringAmazon ’s expected announcementof their next - gen Kindle computer hardware . [ Google Mobile Blog , New York TimesviaLifehacker ]
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-preparing-to-drop-kindle-2-on-february-9-5140106
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