Don’t have a Kindle?  No problem!

Thanks to Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac, you can now read over 1million (and growing) ebooks on your PC or Mac.  No Kindle required.  Already have a Kindle?  Use Amazon’s Whispersync technology to synchronize your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across your devices.

• Get the best reading experience available on your PC or 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 new highlights, notes, and bookmarks and manage those created on your Kindle
• Search for words or phrases within the book you’re reading
• Use the built-in dictionary to seamlessly look up the definitions of English words without interrupting your reading.
• Full screen reading view, color modes, and brightness controls offer an immersive reading experience
• Real page numbers for thousands of books in the Kindle Store. Now you can easily reference and cite passages, and read alongside others in a book club or class.

Minimum system requirements for Kindle for PC

• A PC with a 500MHz Intel or AMD processor
• 128MB of RAM
• Screen resolution of 800×600
• Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista or Windows 7
• 100MB of available disk space

 Minimum system requirements for Kindle for Mac

• A Mac with a 500MHz Intel processor or faster
• At least 512MB of RAM
• Screen resolution of 800×600 or greater
• 100MB of available disk space
• Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or 10.7 (Lion)
•  Note: The last version of Kindle for Mac to support Mac OS X 1.5 (Leopard) is available for download