title_body: How to change Kindle Windows 8 into a 'normal app' I read a lot of books on my netbook using Kindle for Windows 8. However, I am often very frustrated that is uses the 'metro' interface which consumes the full screen. I would like to use my Kindle app on Windows 8 like other normal apps so I can share the screen with other apps at the same time.
  
  I had a similar complains about Chrome (Google's browser) and learned that Chrome had a simple setting to change to get the normal interface.
  
  I don't see such a feature in Kindle. Is there an option (or different version) so users can accomplish this goal?
upvoted_answer: I have found 2 solutions to this.  The first is to download the Windows 7 version of the Reader from here.  When I installed that particular version on W8.1, the popup said it was going to "expire soon" (which likely speaks to the fact that the company will be dropping XP support from the next version, not that they'll be discontinuing the non-Metro version completely).
  
  The second is to use the Kindle Cloud Reader.  While it is designed to be used "in the cloud" you can download your books to have local copies.  Using this method, you can open the app in a dedicated browser window and resize it as needed.