Xoom Owners Test Drive Kindle, Google Books Apps

Motorola Xoom hit stores yesterday and owners are already installing their eReader apps. In a Motorola support forum, users have been discussing the merits of the Kindle app and the Google Books and the issues they are having with each.

One poster wrote: “The Kindle for Android app works on the Xoom without any serious problems, but it isn’t as good as the iPad app (yet)…One thing that is better is that you can shop for the books within the app without having to go to the browser the way you do on the iPad…Better for me at this point than the Google Book app that keeps giving me error messages about not being able to read a book offline.”

Another commenter prefers the Google app: “Google Books has a turning-page animation that I like.