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Posted 12 March 2009 - 09:55 AM
Now that's a great comparative review of similar programs on the iPhone platform. Way better than the two paragraph feature summaries without mentioning comparable programs. And I agree with most of the comments about the reader programs. Good work, Ben!
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Posted 12 March 2009 - 10:09 AM
RE: Classics:
" Tap a page and the page flips. You can also drag your finger and the page will turn as realistically as a virtual book will allow. "
Not true. Has anyone EVER! seen a page buckle in the middle when turn it? The page should dog ear, top corner preferably. The current Classics page turn is not a page turner.
" Tap a page and the page flips. You can also drag your finger and the page will turn as realistically as a virtual book will allow. "
Not true. Has anyone EVER! seen a page buckle in the middle when turn it? The page should dog ear, top corner preferably. The current Classics page turn is not a page turner.
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Posted 12 March 2009 - 11:11 AM
The iPhone is backlit. The Kindle is not. Huge on an airplane or reading in bed.
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Posted 12 March 2009 - 02:12 PM
kresh said:
I would not trade "Bookz" ($4.99 in the AppStore) for all of the other e-book readers you have listed.
Thanks for the tip. I hope Ben will check it out and review it shortly.
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Did these guys pay to be included in your review or what?
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Posted 12 March 2009 - 04:43 PM
Stanza has already paid for itself for me. The High School English classes I'm subbing for are reading through Swift's "A Modest Proposal". A free download last night from Project Gutenberg and I was able to "page" through it before I arrived at my assignment this morning.
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Posted 12 March 2009 - 11:00 PM
There is another great app for reading ebooks on iphone: Shortbook. It's read only fb2-format (there are many tools for easy to convert to this format), but this app much better than Stanza in terms of user experience (Stanza is so slow while loading books, and Shortbook loads them immediately).
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Posted 16 March 2009 - 02:39 PM
Nice review Ben. Thanks.
What do you think of Iceberg Reader that treats each book like an individual app? I'm not sure I like that. You can only have so many icons on an iPhone, and using up one for each book is not good. Also, it claims as one of its big advantages that it presents book pages as they actually appear in the real book. However, to get the entire page on the iPhone screen, you have to shrink the text to the point where it's unreadable. If you enlarge the text so you can read it you then have to scroll down the page and then tap a button at the bottom to turn the page. The scroll turn, scroll turn is annoying.
Also, you can't download Kindle books directly to the iPhone. The plus of Kindle on the iPhone is that it has color.
What do you think of Iceberg Reader that treats each book like an individual app? I'm not sure I like that. You can only have so many icons on an iPhone, and using up one for each book is not good. Also, it claims as one of its big advantages that it presents book pages as they actually appear in the real book. However, to get the entire page on the iPhone screen, you have to shrink the text to the point where it's unreadable. If you enlarge the text so you can read it you then have to scroll down the page and then tap a button at the bottom to turn the page. The scroll turn, scroll turn is annoying.
Also, you can't download Kindle books directly to the iPhone. The plus of Kindle on the iPhone is that it has color.
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Posted 17 March 2009 - 04:19 AM
ericjungemann said:
The iPhone is backlit. The Kindle is not. Huge on an airplane or reading in bed.
It's great that it's backlit sometimes, but (at least with the kindle app on a 1st gen iPod Touch) it drains the battery quite fast. Maybe it just seems fast because I get caught up in the book, though?
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Posted 17 March 2009 - 07:53 AM
kresh said:
I would not trade "Bookz" ($4.99 in the AppStore) for all of the other e-book readers you have listed.
Did these guys pay to be included in your review or what?
Did these guys pay to be included in your review or what?
I agree with kresh.... I love the $5 Bookz. Works for me on my iPhone 3G and very readable.
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Posted 17 March 2009 - 11:27 AM
Very useful article. Love the comparisons.
Since Instapaper is mentioned as an RSS reader, I feel compelled to mention NetNewsWire. With the app on my iMac, integration with the web-based newsgator service, and the iPhone app, NetNewsWire allows me to organize and read my RSS feeds seemlessly at home, work, and on the road. Best of all, it was all free!!! Not an e-book reader, but a great app nontheless.
Since Instapaper is mentioned as an RSS reader, I feel compelled to mention NetNewsWire. With the app on my iMac, integration with the web-based newsgator service, and the iPhone app, NetNewsWire allows me to organize and read my RSS feeds seemlessly at home, work, and on the road. Best of all, it was all free!!! Not an e-book reader, but a great app nontheless.
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