If you already have an app - and it sounds like you do - click on Log In to proceed.Īccount email + password. On the bottom it has a button for “Log In” and another for “Create New Account”. Click on it to launch the Kindle app on your PC laptop… That worked! Now it’s a breeze to work with the app because of the Windows 8 Start screen.
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Perhaps they are…Ĭlick on “Install” to install it on your Windows 8 system and after a minute or so, you should see: “Free” is good, but three stars out of five suggests the team at Amazon might need to be doing some additional work to improve things. The Kindle app is the black rectangle on the left. You’ll see all the matching apps from the Windows App Store: Type in “Kindle” then click on “Store” on the list of options below. You can’t explicitly search the App Store, you have to use the general Win8 search, which you can easily reach by clicking Cmd-F. You can then browse to find the app or let’s be faster and more efficient about it and do a search. You can see the Store icon on the bottom, in green, with the shopping bag icon: Windows 8, however, offers the Windows App Store, so let’s use that instead! And how do you get to the App Store? With the Start screen: If you’re using Windows 7, XP or Vista, you’ll start by firing up your favorite Web browser (or, since you’re doubtless reading this article in your browser, just pop open a new tab) and go to Kindle Reading Apps on the site. The only difference is that you still have a Start menu. If you’re running Win7 or another earlier version of Microsoft Windows, you’ll find that the process is quite similar. For this, I’ll be using Windows 8 as part of our great shift here at Ask Dave Taylor. Your’e asking about Windows, however, and while the process is similar, it’s not quite the same, so let’s go through the steps. In fact, you can also read Kindle books on your Mac system, if you had one, as I describe here: Read Kindle ebooks directly on your iMac or MacBook Pro.