Amazon Updates Kindle for Android with Voice Search and Other Goodies

Amazon today announced a new update to its free Kindle app for Android. The latest update shoehorns a handful of new features, including the ability to search within a book either by typing or a speaking a word or phrase. Other features include:

• Add, Edit, and Delete Notes and Highlights: Add notes and highlights to books, and have them automatically synchronized between devices.
• Wikipedia Lookup: Look up words and phrases in Wikipedia simply by selecting text
• Shelfari Book Details: View additional book details from the books-focused social networking site Shelfari. Readers will find a description of the book, synopsis, summary, cast of characters, and many more features, and be able to view real-time discussions that the Shelfari community is having about the book.
• Orientation Lock: Choose to the lock the orientation of the screen in landscape or portrait mode.

Nothing earth shattering in and of themselves, but collectively, but not a bad little update for fans of the Kindle app. Kindle for Android is available for free from the Android Market.

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