April 21, 2011 07:27 pm EDT

Amazon updates Kindle app for Honeycomb, shows that tablets really do exist

If you've done any Kindling on your Xoom or your G-Slate or your Transformer or whatever little slice of Honeycomb you're calling home, chances are you've noticed the app isn't exactly optimized for the relatively big screen of your slate. Well, now it has been. As promised, Amazon has just pushed an update to the Kindle app that makes it decidedly more 3.0-friendly. Gone is the ugly list of books, replaced by a lovely grid of titles including cover art. Just tap to start reading. Text itself within the books is higher-res and page turning seems snappier too. Worth the download? For sure -- especially since it's still free.

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