As I’m an avid user of the Kindle app for the iPad and the iPhone, I eagerly look forward to version updates. I’ve been using the app ever since its initial release back in 2009, and have written reviews comparing it to Apple’s iOS e-reader app, iBooks.  Although the latter app has always been more feature-rich, the latest updates of the Kindle for iPad and iPhone include some much-needed features that users should know about. Last week, Amazon released the 3.6 version of its Kindle app which now includes multi-color highlights, a Wikipedia-like feature that helps you learn more about notable characters, places, and terminology used in the book, and a few “Book End Actions” for rating and reviewing Kindle books. Previous updates include some useful book management features, and a few minor enhancements to the Brightness Control. Multi-Color Highlights Finally after three updates, the Kindle app now includes multi-color highlightsâ€"a pretty simple feature available for quite some time in iBooks, and in a few PDF reader apps like iAnnotate and GoodReader. Now after you highlight a piece of text, you can tap on the highlight and a small menu bar will pop up for choosing one of four highlight colors (red, blue, yellow, and orange), a button for deleting the highlight, an icon for writing notes, and a Twitter and Facebook sharing feature added in a previous version of the app. For students and non-fiction readers, these multi-color highlights are l
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