Kindle Cloud Reader Works on BlackBerry PlayBook August 10, 2011
Posted by Matt Cook in BlackBerry, Joy.Tags: BlackBerry PlayBook, Cloud Reader
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Learned today that Amazon had quietly released Cloud Reader.
Went to the Kindle homepage and clicked on the Cloud Reader link which takes you to https://read.amazon.com.
Initially it wouldn’t load so I turned off Private Browsing and refreshed and the page loaded.
Quickly discovered as this was designed for the iPad that all of this needs to be done in portrait mode as I couldn’t scroll or see the button to continue in landscape.
The Cloud Reader allows you to download your books for offline access. Win.
I chose to hide the URL and buttons (had to be in landscape mode to do it) so I had nearly the full screen for the reader.
I also bookmarked https://read.amazon.com and added a shortcut to it to the home screen.
Should be quite functional until a native app is released or until they clean up the app to have official PlayBook support.
OK. Not quite sure how this is going to work offline yet if at all on the PlayBook. Seemed fine with browser open and disconnecting wifi, but obviously couldn’t reconnect once offline.
Will need to do more research as there has to be a way to get to the offine content with a local URL when disconnected. Perhaps I should actually RTFM.
Will play more and update.
The page says you can continue reading when disconnected from the network. I suspect you will have to authenticate first while connected and true offline won’t be an option at this time. I guess you could leave the PlayBook browser open at all times after authenticating.
Once again, will play more when PlayBook is back at hand and update as needed.