Kindle App Gets Real Page Number Support, More

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Amazon released Kindle 2.6 for the iPhone and iPad on Tuesday with support for real page numbers in books. The feature sill make it easier for students to reference the same text book page numbers in ebooks and printed books.

Amazon’s Kindle on the iPad

Version 2.6 shows the ISBN code for the printed book so users can verify which version of a book their ebook page numbers match. The update maintains Kindle Locations support, added the ability to look up words in Google and Wikipedia without jumping out of books, displays how much of the book has been read in title list view, and you can see the percentage of the book read while reading on the iPhone.

Kindle 2.6 is free and is available at Apple’s iTunes-based App Store.

Jeff Gamet

Jeff Gamet

Jeff is the Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and co-host of the Apple Context Machine podcast. He is the author of "The Designer's Guide to Mac OS X" from Peachpit Press, and writes for several design-related publications. Jeff has presented at events such as Macworld Expo, the RSA Conference, and the Mac Computer Expo. In all his spare time, he also co-hosts the We Have Communicators podcast, and makes guest appearances on several other podcasts, too. Jeff dreams in HD.

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Bosco (Brad Hutchings)

Better snatch this up quick… It won’t be long before Amazon gets caught up in this in-app purchasing thing like Sony.

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