You can swipe downwards with your finger or scroll with your mouse and get an infinite scroll feature. When you open a book and you can read it in a one page or two page spread. You can look at all of your notes and highlights for every book in your library, and there are numerous sorting functions author, title, and recent. You can sort the library by grid view or list view. You can enlarge the cover art, but on a PC it looks pixelated, it looks better on a mobile device. The default screen is your library and it shows all of the ebooks stored locally or in the cloud. The UI of the Kindle Cloud Reader is simplistic. You can add notes, copy text, look words up in a few different dictionaries, or look the word up on the web. There are four different highlight colors, the Kindle Cloud Reader has one. There are plenty of ways to conduct annotations. There are plenty of fonts to choose from, including Bookerl, Ember, Ember Bold, Caecilia and others. There is a full screen mode, so you can help eliminate distractions. If you are using it on a laptop with a touchscreen or say a Microsoft Surface, you can swipe/gesture or use a trackpad. You cannot scroll down with your mouse and have an infinite scroll system, instead it just turns the page, without real animations.

When reading a book, you can view it in a in a 3 page spread, two page spread or one page. One of the things I really like is the system dark mode for the app and you can import in your own PDF files, from your PC. The Kindle Cloud Reader tends to look more pixelated on HD/4K monitors. The main home screen is basically your library and cover art is bright and bubbly. The Kindle for PC app is far superior to the Kindle Cloud Reader, and Amazon updates it on a regular basis.

While the Kobo Desktop and Kobo ebooks for Windows 10, both have bookstores, without being diverted. One of the drawbacks of the Kindle Cloud Reader and Kindle for PC, is that you cannot buy ebooks, you are instead redirected to the Amazon website.

We take a look at the UI, reading experience, annotations, bookmarks and what you can and can’t do. This Good e-Reader Review video will give you a sense on what these two Kindle solutions bring to the table. The Kindle Cloud Reader is a browser based solution that works on any device, this is ideal for reading at school or work. Kindle for PC is a dedicated program for computers, tablets and 2-in-1 devices, it provides a ton of customization features while reading. Amazon has two different programs for reading on a PC or a mobile device that isn’t Android or iOS.

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