How to Read Kindle Books on Surface Pro

Amazon Kindle App

Why doesn't Amazon release a decent Kindle App for Windows 10. They originally withdrew their app because there weren't 'enough' Win 10 users. However that has changed now.

Can we bug them enough to get one released?

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Sketchy on Surface, IMO. You might want to try the Kindle Cloud Reader using Microsoft Edge to see if you like the experience better. Until Amazon releases a real Windows 10 app, it's probably the best way to read Kindle content on a Windows tablet.

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Unfortunately, it's just about unusable full-screen. Any screen touch at all brings up a big black overlay that obscures a chunk of the screen.

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Thank you for the link. How on earth did you find the link?

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Agreed. Amazon seems to be intentionally gimping Windows, just like Google. The Kindle desktop app is just not suitable for tablets, IMO.

You might want to try the Kindle Cloud Reader using Microsoft Edge to see if you like the experience better. Until Amazon releases a real Windows 10 app, it's probably the best way to read Kindle content on a Windows tablet.

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· 3y · edited 3y

What I don't understand, is that MS collaborates with Amazon for Alexa integration, yet they don't take the effort to make a modern Kindle app.

The same issue with that Spotify thing.

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i've been doing fine with the currently available kindle app for PC on my surface pro - after i learned how to change the margins which for some reason were huge by default

i also have the discontinued kindle app from the win8 times on a different tablet (lenovo thinkpad tablet2) and it is only so slightly more touch-optimised compared to the current one

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How did you change the margins? I don't see that option in the font etc. menu. Thank you

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There's not enough tablet users, and people don't read on Windows laptops. It might never happen.

Besides, Amazon makes dedicated devices that are super cheap - when it is on sale, you can get a Fire 7 for $35 brand new, and an e-ink one is not much more. All of that does not incentivise them to develop for a niche platform - and it is niche; Total sales are only a modest fraction of all PCs sold.

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· 3y

If you use the cloud reader you can actually use it offline.

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· 3y

SP (2013) -> SP (2017)

But it dose not support all books, even fewer books then the iOS App. I get the digital version of most of my schoolbooks and I miss a full featured Kindle app a lot or a touch friendly interface for the desktop program.

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In my opinion the win32 app actually works great on the surface.

It isn't as "native" as a windows store app, but I think they have made pretty significant improvements to it this year. Once it is full screen you wouldn't know - touch works perfectly and fluidly to go to the next page etc.

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· 3y

Surface Pro 6 Black Package

Yes, it "works", but Microsoft has signaled many times that EXE programs are twilighted and going the way of the dodo and all new apps need to be UWP or PWA. A new surface go (which is the most tabletly tablet) starts its life in S-mode and incapable of running exe apps out of the box. I know many people want to wish this away, but you might as well convince Microsoft to pull windows 10 and go back to windows 7 for all the good it will do.

How to Read Kindle Books on Surface Pro

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/97griv/amazon_kindle_app/

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