These days, flat-rate book subscriptions have been all the rage, including Amazon's Kindle Unlimited , which we've been testing thanks to the 30-day free trial Amazon offers to all users. In this article, I'll share my experience with the service and outline what I believe to be its strengths and weaknesses.
Signing up for this service is extremely simple; if you already have an Amazon account, you just need to press a single button to access the vast collection of books offered by Kindle Unlimited, comprising 700.000 different titles, 25.000 of which are in Spanish.
Before expressing my opinion about the service, I think we can start with the positive and negative points of this new Amazon reading service:
Positive about Kindle Unlimited
- Su price is undoubtedly one of its attractions, since for the amount of 9,99 Euros you can access more than 700.000 books
- The possibility of synchronization with other Amazon devices is undoubtedly a great advantage to be able to read Kindle Unlimited books from various devices without losing, for example, the page where we are going
- One of the most positive points is the possibility of accessing the service from eReaders, smartphones and tablets And that does not limit you to having to buy the books in a single device. For example, it is possible to buy books very easily from a Kindle Paperwhite
- Possibility of downloading "purchased" books through the service
Negative about Kindle Unlimited
- The number of books in Spanish is not small since we have a total of 25.000 books, but it is the variety to choose from is small And it is that although we have some great books in it and some other novelty, most of the most interesting books that we all want to read are not available
- The option of not being able to use this service on other eReaders the market limits it a bit
- The downloaded eBooks have the usual Amazon format and that makes many of us uncomfortable
My take on Kindle Unlimited
There's no doubt it's a very comprehensive service, with a good selection of books, and at a very low price. However, if you don't own a Kindle eReader (any model), I don't think it's a service worth subscribing to, since you'll only truly enjoy reading on a device like this.
In my case, for example, I do not have a Kindle, so I can only take advantage of this service on my smartphone and on my tablet, which I sincerely believe is not worth it. It is true that you could download the "purchased" books, convert them to another format and put them in another eReader, but this would be a job that you would not have to do with another service of this type.
For anyone who has a Kindle I think it is the best service you can bet on, taking into account all its advantages.
Have you tried the new Kindle Unlimited service? What's your opinion of it?