Amazon brings Kindle features to its Android app

If you don't have a Kindle to read your books on then there's no worries, as apps exist on other platforms like Android. Amazon isn't standing still on this either, now offering customers on Google's mobile platform some new features already available on the stand-alone device.

Included are two new features that Amazon claims customers have found the most useful. First up is Word Wise, which Amazon claims is excellent for young kids and also for those learning English. Tapping a word pops up a box that provides a definition, along with synonyms and more.

"We've heard from customers that this feature is particularly useful in two specific ways: 1) customers whose first language isn’t English are reporting that Word Wise is helping them build their English vocabulary; and 2) parents are reporting that Word Wise is helping their kids expand their vocabulary and take on longer chapter books", Amazon announces.

Second on the list of new features is Popular Highlights, which brings a combination of passages that readers highlight and Amazon collects and compiles, "The resulting Popular Highlights help readers to focus on passages that are meaningful to the greatest number of people. We show only passages where the highlights of at least three distinct customers overlap, and we do not show which customers made those highlights".

The update is available now if you head to the Google Play store.