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With its just-added support for video and audio clips, Amazon’s Kindle app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch just leapfrogged the actual Kindle — and Apple’s iBooks app, for that matter — in terms of multimedia features.
Amazon announced the free upgrade late Sunday, along with 13 volumes in the Kindle store that take advantage of the new feature. Among them: a series of Rick Steves travel guide books, “Knitting for Dummies,” a book of 250 North American bird songs, a songbook for “Les Miserables,” and a biography of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt featuring audio clips of 30 of the president’s most famous speeches and Fireside Chats.
I tested out the new Kindle app on both the iPhone 4 and the iPad, and both worked smoothly enough, although there’s nothing particularly eye-catching about their functionality.
Swiping through Rick Steves’ Florence travel guide, I came across a little blue speaker icon above a section describing Michelangelo’s David at the Accademia. I tapped the icon, and a basic audio player slid up from the bottom of the iPhone screen. (On the iPad, the audio player appears in a small pop-up window.) There’s a pause and a back button that takes you to the very beginning of the audio clip, but that’s about it. And no — there’s no audio multitasking for the Kindle app as there is for streaming music apps like Pandora or Slacker.
Embedded videos in Kindle books are equally basic. I watched tips on working with flour in a book called “Rose’s Heavenly Cakes” (yum) by tapping a blue “play” button in a color slide. On the iPhone, the ensuing five-minute clip zoomed to fill the screen, while the iPad version put the video in a zoomable pop-up window. A progress slider lets you “scrub” from one part of the video to another (unlike the Kindle audio clips, which you can play only from the beginning).
We’re not talking a lot of razzmatazz here. But the utilitarian video and audio clips do the job, and hopefully upcoming Kindle volumes will up the ante in terms of presentation.
Of course, audio and video content takes up a lot more space than mere text, which means that audio- and video-enabled Kindle volumes take a lot longer to download — up to five minutes on my home cable modem, compared to just seconds for standard Kindle books. Speaking of which: Because multimedia Kindle titles are so large, Amazon will let you download them only over Wi-Fi — not 3G.
Where does the new audio- and video-enabled Kindle iPhone app leave Apple’s iBooks app — or the Kindle itself? For the time being, iBooks — as well as the Barnes & Noble iPhone/iPad app, come to think of it — is still stuck in a read-only world. And though the current Kindle supports text-to-speech and audiobooks (which means audio clips shouldn’t be much of a stretch), full-motion video is still a no-can-do feature on the Kindle’s low-power but slow-as-molasses e-paper display. (Amazon chief exec Jeff Bezos recently admitted that a color Kindle is “still a long way out.”)
Question for you book lovers out there: How important would embedded audio and video clips be for your Kindle-reading pleasure? Would multimedia be a killer feature, or a dispensable bell and/or whistle?
• Amazon: Press release
— Ben Patterson is a technology writer for Yahoo! News.
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