Amazon targets kids and parents the latest Kindle for Android Update – VentureBeat

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Amazon quietly updated .its Android Kindle app last night with two Previously Kindle-only features: WordWise and popular highlights.

Amazon’s WordWise feature Automatically displays the definition of Certain words, making it a selling point for parents (and Their kids), non-native English speakers, and anyone who reads books written over a century ago (good for you, Aldous Huxley). “Parents are reporting That WordWise ice Helping Their kids expandtheir vocabulary and take on longer chapter books,” Amazon Told us.

The Popular Highlights feature offers a similar utility – if you have it turned on, the Kindle app Will auto-highlight Certain passages based on what other Kindle readers highlight. That’s totally not a privacy violation, right?

Amazon’s cargo Kindle for Android Update Introduced features like Push Notifications and flashcards back in December.

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