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Just over two weeks before the first iPads with an e-book store arrive, Amazon delivers its Kindle for Mac client<\/a>. The software was listed as “coming soon” for longer than I define the word soon, but it’s a moot point now. It’s here and it’s free<\/a> for Mac OS X 10.5+, making it another way to buy and read Kindle content without purchasing a Kindle device. I downloaded the client this morning and once signed in, saw my entire Kindle library, as expected.<\/p>\n

Like the Windows version, this is a pretty bare-bones bit of software. You can see your library in color, but I don’t see a way to change the color of the actual pages. Text size and words per line are configurable, and you can show notes and bookmarks, but you can only make bookmarks — there’s no way to make notes, but that too is “coming soon.” That’s a shame since I’m reading a book with a nice, easy-to-use keyboard in front of me.<\/p>\n

Control of pages is done through either a keyboard or a mouse, but one caveat — with my Apple Magic Mouse<\/a>, I swiped from right to left for a page turn and immediately became dizzy. The kinetic action that’s useful when surfing the web isn’t so useful when reading a book. Pages whizzed by at an arming rate, making it look to observers that I was a champion speed reader. I’m not, although I’m clearly a champion mouse scroller.<\/p>\n