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We just complained about how Amazon.com hadn't released Kindle for Android yet, earlier, and viola, it's been announced by Amazon.com and its now in the Android Market. Of course, we won't take any credit for it, but it's sure a coincidence.

Seems like pent-up demand was there; the first time we tried to download the app it failed. We managed to get it downloaded and installed to our Nexus One on the second try.

Here's the bulleted list of features:

• Search and browse more than 620,000 books, including 108 of 111 New York Times Bestsellers, plus tens of thousands of the most popular classics for free directly from their Android device. Bestsellers such as "Backlash" by Aaron Allston, "Big Girl" by Danielle Steel, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot, and "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown, and hundreds of thousands of other popular books are $9.99 or less in the Kindle Store
• Read the first chapter of books for free before they decide to buy
• Access their library of previously purchased Kindle books storedon Amazon's servers for free
• Synchronize last page read between their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry and Android-powered phone
• Customize background color, font color, and font size to help ease eyestrain
• Read in portrait or landscape mode, tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages
• Adjust screen brightness from within the app to make reading easier

It's pretty much the same app as on other platforms, but downloading one of my archived books didn't work too well; it failed twice before we gave up and decided to try it when connected to wi-fi later. Admittedly, we can probably blame it on AT&T.