Editor's Review
Since its founding in 1927, Kinokuniya Bookstore has consistently strived to respond to customers' desire to read. A bookstore is a place where customers and books meet. Thanks to you, it has been well received as a base for transmitting Japanese culture not only in Japan but also overseas.
The environment surrounding books has changed with the times. Focusing on the possibilities and convenience of the Internet, we opened the online shop site BookWeb in 1996. We have delivered domestic and foreign books and magazines to our customers in cooperation with real stores. And e-books. Various voices are heard as to whether the ideal form of a book is paper or electronic.
However, the starting point is the feelings of authors and publishers, "I want to express and send," and the feelings of readers, "I want to read." Kinokuniya Bookstore has started the electronic book service "Kinoppy" as a new meeting place for books.
Things that should and should not change with the times. "I want to read", I want to respond to such feelings. Kinokuniya Bookstore supports "readers". Kinoppy is an e-book service operated by Kinokuniya Bookstore, one of the largest bookstore chains in Japan. It boasts the largest product lineup in Japan and offers a variety of features to enhance your reading experience.
The app includes a smooth and stress-free viewer with offline reading capabilities, allowing you to read your favorite books anytime, anywhere. You can add lines and memos to text books, comics, and photo books using the marker function. The page list function makes it easy to find the page you want to read, and you can select from various page turning modes to suit your preferences. Your reading progress, bookmarks, and markers can be synchronized across multiple devices.
Kinoppy also allows you to browse book data prepared by the customer and register it on your bookshelf. It adopts Yumincho font, which is ideal for reading. The app provides a synchronization function that can be shared by multiple terminals, allowing you to create multiple bookshelves suitable for managing many books. The bookshelf selector function makes it easy to find the bookshelf you want to see, and the smart bookshelf can display books that meet your favorite conditions such as genre and author. The series list function allows you to display and organize series books together, and the wallpaper function allows you to set your favorite image and make it your own bookshelf.
Kinoppy also supports book movement, presenting shelves of book movement candidates from series and titles. You can encounter new books through the largest product lineup in Japan and free campaigns for free books and popular comics held at any time. The app is equipped with a catalog function that allows you to quickly search for popular or interesting works.
Features
Smooth, stress-free viewer
Offline reading
Marker and memo function
Customizable page turning
Multi-device synchronization
Personal book data browsing
Yumincho font adoption
Multiple bookshelf creation
Smart bookshelf feature
Series list organization
Customizable wallpaper
Book movement support
Extensive product lineup
Free book campaigns
Catalog search function
Pros
Smooth, stress-free viewer
Offline reading capability
Synchronization across devices
Largest product lineup in Japan
Free book campaigns
Cons
Requires account registration
Limited to Kinokuniya's catalog
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