Kindle

I am unable to download the Dictionary. I click on a word to get the definition and I get nothing. Please advise.

I cannot undo a highlight. Ctrl-click (right click) does nothing. Sometimes I start to highlight a paragraph and then decide to highlight just a sentence, but I cannot edit the previous highlight, something I was able to do in Kindle classic. Also, the option to write a note does not appear immediately when I highlight a word. Before, I just right-clicked on a word and the option of highlighting/search/note appeared immediately.

v7.0 is out. (See my comment below regarding the EOL for "Kindle Classic"). Release Notes: "- Text selection and highlighting improvements. - Shift+click to select multiple books in Library. - Play and pause audiobooks with the space bar. - Delete flashcards for cleaner study space. - Added citation to copied text for easy referencing." - - Amazon has also freed users from having to bother with Annotation mode when using Apple's Text-To-Speech. Now users can drag-select text, hit their system chosen TTS keys (such as OPT-ESC), and the text is read without any highlighting. It just works. If you get tired of TTS reading Credits to you at the end of each reading, just hit your TTD keys for silence. At last, Kindle Reader for Mac is growing up into something good. I added a couple stars. Keep at it, Amazon!

UPDATE: (1) 'Kindle Classic' is now EOL and will not be updated past October 31, 2023. It's final version is 1.40.3, available at the Mac App Store. (2) Happily, Amazon has updated the NEW 'Amazon Kindle' app to version 6.85.3, now available at the Mac App Store. This will be the official Kindle reader app going forward. I have it running. It no longer bombs. Hurray. SADLY, it's still betaware, having some annoying bugs and NOT following Apple's GUI standards. WTF Amazon! W T F ! Why can't they follow the rules? - - REVIEW of v6.85.3: It has a bunch of new features, including the ability to (a) Use Google search to look up words in a dictionary (b) Use Wikipedia to look up subjects. (c) Translate among 23 different languages. Text-to-speech now works, without having to use workarounds (!), using Apple's built-in TTS system. IOW you can use Opt-Esc (or whatever you've set up) to read highlighted text. However, having ignored Apple's GUI standards, (1) The ONLY way to highlight text is to drag your cursor over it. Clicking on paragraphs dumps you the page selector, like that makes any sense. (2) The TTS reads the paragraph ABOVE what you highlighted on a page before it reads what you actually highlighted. IDIOTIC! (3) Then UN-highlighting text is a serious PITA! Oh Amazon. You have to go into Annotations mode, activated by a notebook icon visible when you move your cursor to the top of the reading window. Then you click the ellipsis (...) to the right of the listed paragraph you wish to UN-highlight. Also IDIOTIC. - - I'll stop there. IOW: ANNOYING to use. The GUI is often irrational. It clearly has had poor, if any, user testing. Oh and there is NO HELP! - - Take away message: Amazon's Kindle coding team is lazy, careless and ignorant of Mac GUI standards. It still gets an "F" from me, one measly star. :-P *Bleh* --> Use another reader if you value your sanity.

*sigh* And while I'm chattering on about Kindle... I checked today on the progress regarding the repair of text-to-speech in the Kindle app when running macOS 13.x Ventura. There isn't any. Amazon has dared to tell customers to talk to Apple about it. WRONG. This is a developer level problem, not a user level problem. Amazon has to solve this bug with Apple, not we Amazon customers. *double sigh*

*GAG* OK, I did my best with the newly revised Kindle and will simply say: DON'T!!!!! It's not ready for prime time, even remotely. It's terrible. It BOMBS. Text-to-speech is INERT, does nothing. Generic icon books pile up at the top of my Recent list with banners that make no sense. - - I reported everything directly to Amazon. - - CONCLUSION: Stick to the 'Classic' Kindle over at the Mac App Store until further notice, IOW until Amazon bother to adequately beta-test the revised version. They clearly haven't.

v1.40.6562 is out and what downloads here at MU. Confusingly, it identifies itself in the Finder as 1.40.1. (o_0) - - Raking through FURTHER CONFUSION. As of today: (A) If you get Kindle from Apple's Mac App Store, you end up with 'Classic Kindle' v1.40.2. Amazon don't bother to offer the 'Classic' version on their web page. Consider it the OLD Kindle. (B) If you want the latest NEW revision of Kindle, you MUST download it from Amazon directly. That is what MU provides here. (C) New Kindle and 'Classic Kindle' are NOT COMPATIBLE and will REPLACE one another when you install EITHER ONE. (o_0) Whut da? - - Through trickery, I'll be playing with each and drop a brief comparison review in another comment. Sorry to hog comment space, but I try to be useful . . .

CHANGES! Today, I noticed the arrival of 'Kindle Classic' 1.40.2 at the Mac App Store. Huh? Amazon has not done a good job explaining what's going on. Here is Amazon's vague email announcement regarding Kindle, as of 2023-09-03: "Dear customer, • We are replacing the current Kindle for Mac with a new and improved app, which will include an enhanced book reading and library management experience. Support for the current app will be ending by October 2023. The new Kindle for Mac will be available to download from the Mac App Store in September 2023. • To copy any collections you created in the old app to the new app, please complete the following steps: 1. Update to the latest version (1.40.1 or higher) of the current app. 2. Open the latest version of the current app. This will trigger the transfer of your collections. - - Thank you for being a Kindle customer. Regards, The Kindle Team

v1.38.0.65298 is the current version. dated August 3. Activating text-to-speech is still broken. You have to use the menu. Stopping text-to-speech works fine.

Update says it is supposed to be 1.38.0; what actually gets downloaded is 1.37.65278.

How do we access the audible book that we bought in accompaniment to the digital book through kindle on a Mac? I can access on iPhone and iPad but not sure how to get the audible to play the audio book while reading the digital print. On the iPhone and iPad, I can follow along with the audio and read at the same time. I prefer this method for better retention. If anyone know how to listen to the audio book and read the digital print, all from the Mac, then please reply and help me out. Thanks in advance!

Je ne peux pas mettre à jour mon application Kindle Merci pour votre aide. J'utilise MAC OS 10.15.7 CATALINA

Can you please explain why kindle is not available in Barbados.

crashes under Catalina beta 8

Nice and easy

FYI current version is 1.14.0

I am running IOS Yosemite 10.10.5. Since the Kindle App for my Mac updated to support the beta IOS El Capitan it's seriously faulty! Crashes, mostly crashes. When I get it to stay open for awhile, It shows fairly new stuff only, and just notifies of a failed download on ALL new books. I spent an hour and 6 Amazon agents in a chat session and they will not supply a previous version, but all those having issues must wait until they resolve the issue. How/Where do I get the version of the Kindle app prior?

Please note that you do NOT have to download the Kindle app from the Apple Mac App Store. You can still download it from Amazon via the link on this page for Amazon. IOW:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/fiona/kcp-landing-page?ie=UTF8&ref_=kcp_mac_mkt_lnd

The current direct from Amazon version is still 1.12.0. If you're beta testing OS X 10.11 El Capitan, then you'll need to get, v1.12.3 from the Mac App Store.

Would like to share an email I got from Amazon a few days ago: Dear ?????? It's time to update your Kindle for Mac app! We appreciate the time you've spent reading with our Kindle for Mac app, but you have registered a version on one of your computers that is out of date and scheduled to be retired by September 15. Our latest update (version 1.11.0 or above) is still free, and includes important bug fixes that are required to continue using the app. You can easily download and install the latest version of the Kindle for Mac from our download page on Amazon. You can check the Kindle version number by choosing "Kindle" from the menu of your app and then selecting "About Kindle." Please see our troubleshooting pages for Kindle for Mac if you have any other questions. Thanks for reading with Kindle! Sincerely, The Amazon Kindle Team ======= -I called Amazon about this. Senior Amazon support staff explained that Apple requested Amazon force all Mac kindle users to upgrade to the 10.10 before they can use the latest Kindle app. And on sep.15th the app on my iMac will no longer work at all anymore. So content I have in my Amazon account is forever locked up out of my use until I upgrade my Os and the Kindle app. Would you trust Apple and Amazon now? I live on SSI/SNAP due to disabilities am born with. I cannot afford to buy a new mac let along pay for upgrading all my apps just to run on 10.10 on my 4yr old iMac. Apple and Amazon have gone to far with their controlling users. Please share and pass on this warning. I am pissed off.

Kindle for Mac version 1.11.2 is _NOT_ compatible with MacOS 10.6.x, 10.7.x, or 10.8.x After several immediate-crash launch attempts, I happened upon this page... http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201159360 ...which states: "Kindle for Mac can be used on any Apple Mac computer running OS X 10.9.5 or higher." (Both MU and the App Store still display the old min. sys req's.)