The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader is now available and the best thing about it is that it now allows users to read books straight from their PlayBook tablet. Although it is clear that the BlackBerry PlayBook was not a first priority for Amazon, with a couple of tweaks the PlayBook users have the capability to enjoy their reading. According to BerryReview there is some issues which you have to work around before enjoying your readings:
Some issues and the work around for them:
- When you first run, you must view in Portrait mode or else you won’t be able to get off of the initial screen that instructs you to increase storage size when prompted.
- The default cover view does not seems to scroll properly on the PlayBook. If you tap the list view icon, it works correctly; and scrolling in list view also works correctly.
- The web app does successfully detect your offline/online state for viewing “cloud” books.
- If you are viewing a book and lose connection/disconnect, you can continue reading without any problems. But if you launch the browser with no connection it does not appears to work b/c the browser reports a connection error before checking to see if the content is available offline.
- In my brief testing so far, “Download and Pin” (appears when you tap-hold on a book) seems to work well – but again with the caveat from above. You must load the initial reader page prior to losing your connection/disconnecting. Once a book is downloaded for offline viewing, the “Downloaded” tab shows it and allows you to view it even if you have no connection.
- Best viewed in fullscreen mode.
Hopefully someone comes up with a Kindle App instead of relying on the web browser, I’m sure this would definitely step up sales for the PlayBook, Enjoy!
To get started, visit the link from your PlayBook and sign in with your Amazon credentials: