Hands On: Kindle for BlackBerry
19.02.10
When you first open Amazon Kindle for BlackBerry beta, it gives you the option of signing up for an Amazon account or logging into your existing one. I have an account, so I signedin. Immediately I saw a list of all my Kindle books--tiny cover images and titles. To start reading any of them, I needed to download the book. My AT&T 3G network coverage isn't great in my area so it took a few minutes for my first book to download--your mileage may vary. Books you download immediately appear on your archive page.
As with the Kindle on the PC, the BlackBerry version also knows exactly where I left off in my book on my Kindle 2--as long as I recently synched my Kindle 2 over Amazon's Whispernet. I use my BlackBerry space bar or track ball to turn "pages." I recommend you skip the track ball--it's too easy to turn more than one "page". The screen is so small, that even at the smallest--and mostly unreadable--font size setting, there just isn't enough text per screen. At the default size, even the slowest reader will be clicking their space bar--a lot. To turn back, you hold down the shift key while hitting space. This worked perfectly. There's a "Full-screen" mode, which gives you another line of text, but at a readable font size, that's still only 11 lines of text.
Source: PC Magazine