Thursday
Mar182010
Kindle for mac now available from Amazon
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 1:28AM 
Without any advance notice, Amazon has quietly unleashed its Kindle app for Mac. The 22MB file is for Intel-based machines only, OS X 10.5 and above. Hit the image above for the download.
Read Kindle Books on Your Mac
- Get the best reading experience available on your Mac. No Kindle required
- Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you
- Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync
- Create bookmarks and view the annotations you created on your Kindle
Shop for Books in the Kindle Store
- Search and browse more than 450,000 books, including 101 of 112 New York Times® Best Sellers. If you are a non-U.S. customer, book availability may vary
- Find New York Times Best Sellers and new releases for $9.99, unless marked otherwise
- Get free book samples - read the first chapter for free before you decide to buy
- Books you purchase can also be read on a Kindle
- Kindle newspapers, magazines, and blogs are not currently available for Kindle for Mac
System Requirements
- A Mac with a 500MHz Intel processor or faster
- At least 512MB of RAM
- Screen resolution of 800x600 or greater
- Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
- 100MB of available disk space
, you have no more excuses since you were saying “if it were only $299, I’d buy one”.