Kindle iOS App Adds Support for Fixed Layout

Finally, you really can read your Kindle ebooks anywhere. Amazon today released an update to their Kindle app for iOS that adds support for fixed layout KF8 format ebooks, so that now at last you can view Kindle children's books and graphic novels as intended on your iPad, a function that the Android app has had for some time now (since back in March).






One thing the Android app is getting that it didn't have, however, is two-page layouts in landscape mode, which is something that those illustrated ebooks will require, or greatly benefit from at the least. Other (belated) upgrades to the Kindle for Android app are controls for margin and line spacing, basic features inexplicably missing from the Android version. Each of these features are being added to the Kindle Cloud Reader as well, along with the usual bug fixes for both Android and iOS.




The Kindle for iOS app is also getting a visual makeover, with a cleaner look and improved reading experience. The new additions will feature a "beautiful layout and full color," according to the Amazon release, with support for Text Pop-Ups in children's books and Panel View in comics and graphic novels. Content search for title and author has also been added, and the bug that prevented looking up words on Google or Wikipedia has been fixed.




So only two days after BISG released their ebook format grid it's already out of date, and very likely not for the last time.