I saw early this morning on PreCentral that the Amazon Kindle app for the HP TouchPad had finally arrived. As is usually the case, the comments along with the postings were a mess of conflicting "stuff", rendering the post to -- perhaps what it should be -- a note saying "Its here. Go check it out for yourself".
I did a brief spin around the app. No "wow" factor here. Just an app that, if you are a Kindle user, is familiar and navigable enough when you take into account that the Kindle on any non-Kindle device ain't a Kindle. Don't get yourself bogged down in details like page turn animations or side-loading books.
Amazon has pretty much "got it right" with their Kindle devices.
Kindle apps for non-Kindle devices, such as this one for the TouchPad, are probably the best a reasonable person can expect. It does a reasonable job of making a book readable on a tablet device.
Last thought... If e-ink displays were at the point of being viable for a tablet like the TouchPad, then we'd have something to flap our gums about.
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