Kindle for Mac

Version 7.4 stinks compared to 1.40.3, which was my previous version. The 1.40.3 version was much easier to navigate - you could redraw the screen so that the top line was where you wanted to start reading. And the "Back" button was really handy to go back to a previous view. Why did Amazon reduce the features??? And the older version has "bugs" when I try to use it instead of the new one.

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.