--- title: Torture Report: Amazon Users Complain It's Hard to Read on Kindle description: The Kindle may not be the best place to read the torture report canonical: https://time.com/3632448/torture-report-amazon-kindle/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-12T22:31:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:42.725Z article:section: Politics og:title: Torture Report: Amazon Users Complain It's Hard to Read on Kindle og:description: The Kindle may not be the best place to read the torture report og:url: https://time.com/3632448/torture-report-amazon-kindle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfee3001ba3a734ba/69876e80a988ca4c7c6ab5d0/screen-shot-2014-12-12-at-5-12-03-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-12-12 at 5.12.03 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Torture Report: Amazon Users Complain It's Hard to Read on Kindle twitter:description: The Kindle may not be the best place to read the torture report twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfee3001ba3a734ba/69876e80a988ca4c7c6ab5d0/screen-shot-2014-12-12-at-5-12-03-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Are Complaining the Torture Report Is 'Unreadable' on Amazon Kindle ## Video: CIA Director Brennan Speaks on Senate Torture Report [Watch (HLS stream): CIA Director Brennan Speaks on Senate Torture Report](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fELLDOcb.m3u8) (1:24)  _Published 2014-12-11. CIA Director Brennan Speaks on Senate Torture Report_ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Dec 12, 2014 10:31 PM UTC  Reviews on Amazon.com about the Senate torture report Reviews on Amazon.com about the Senate torture report by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Dec 12, 2014 10:31 PM UTC The Senate report on CIA interrogation tactics is too hard to read on the Kindle, Amazon customers are saying. The report, which details the brutal tactics—now widely condemned as torture—employed by the CIA in order to interrogate terrorism suspects, and [faults the agency for misleading the White House and Congress about it](http://time.com/3625453/torture-report-senate-cia-interrogation/). But the report is “unreadable” on the Kindle, according to customer reviews. One verified purchaser said “don’t waste your money — [unreadable on a kindle](http://www.amazon.com/The-Torture-Report-Intelligence-Interrogation-ebook/product-reviews/B00QSNHBF0/ref=cm%5Fcr%5Fdp%5Fqt%5Fhist%5Fone?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0).” Another reviewer said, “Don’t bother with this unless you can read it on a large screen; it’s basically a pdf and you can get it for free from the committee web site.” Another reviewer said the report was readable on the Kindle iPad app, and the PDF is available for free from the New York Times, PBS, and others—[and you can read it here](http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3632448/torture-report-amazon-kindle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3632448/torture-report-amazon-kindle/"},"headline":"People Are Complaining the Torture Report Is 'Unreadable' on Amazon Kindle","datePublished":"2014-12-12T22:31:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:02:42.725Z","description":"The Kindle may not be the best place to read the torture report","url":"https://time.com/3632448/torture-report-amazon-kindle/","keywords":["intelligence","Tech"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfee3001ba3a734ba/69876e80a988ca4c7c6ab5d0/screen-shot-2014-12-12-at-5-12-03-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfee3001ba3a734ba/69876e80a988ca4c7c6ab5d0/screen-shot-2014-12-12-at-5-12-03-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-12-12 at 5.12.03 PM","caption":"Reviews on Amazon.com about the Senate torture report","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/intelligence/","name":"intelligence"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3632448/torture-report-amazon-kindle/","name":"People Are Complaining the Torture Report Is 'Unreadable' on Amazon Kindle"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"CIA Director Brennan Speaks on Senate Torture Report","description":"CIA Director Brennan Speaks on Senate Torture Report","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fELLDOcb/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-11T22:34:43.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fELLDOcb.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3632448/torture-report-amazon-kindle/","duration":"PT1M24S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3632448/torture-report-amazon-kindle/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```