

We are regularly updating the Kindle for PC app, including recent features like multi-color highlighting, improved search performance, and support for textbooks.To simplify the experience for Windows customers, we will remove the Kindle for Windows 8 app from the Windows Store on October 27, 2016. In order to provide our Windows customers with the best Kindle reading experience, we are simplifying our approach and focusing our efforts on the Kindle for PC app.If you are currently using our other Windows app (Kindle for Windows 8) on one or more of your PCs, we recommend that you upgrade to the Kindle for PC app to get the best reading experience and latest Kindle features. If you’re using the Kindle app, chances are you’ve already built up a library of titles, and are unlikely to start buying all your literature from Google Books or iBooks instead.For the past few years Amazon has supported two separate Kindle apps for Windows PCs. To be honest, Amazon doesn’t need to give you the hard sell. The library screen features a small shopping cart link in the top right, and you’ll see a list of suggested titles when you finish a book, but there are few other prompts to purchase.

Perhaps most surprisingly, the Kindle app for PC and Mac doesn’t give you the hard sell by thrusting store links under your nose.

The New Oxford American Dictionary is the default, but 13 others are available in the settings, covering several languages. The Kindle desktop software also provides dictionary definitions. Unlike most free ebook readers, Kindle for PC and Mac supports annotations (both in a notebooks and as flashcards) and highlighting, making it a good choice for students. Kindle for PC offers a small but useful selection of customization options for easier reading
