3 Great Applications that Turns iPhone into eBook Reader
3/08/2009 08:36:00 PM - 2 comments
Not everyone has the spare money to buy the sleek Kindle 2 from Amazon for reading electronic book. Why spend extra money on it? iPhone is already a great eBook Reader that you can put tons of books into your pocket. Here, we're going to show you three great iPhone applications for reading digital books.
First, it's Stanza from Lexcycle. Stanza has been rated by Time Magazine as one of the top 11 must-have iPhone applications. Once you download and install it on your iPhone, it instantly turns your iPhone into an amazing ebook device. The interface of Stanza is very simple and intuitive. Once you tap on a book title, you can read through the book page by page. A single page occupies the whole iPhone screen, so you don't have to scroll down the page. To turn to the next page, just flick through pages by using finger. Or you just tap on the left or right side of screen to turn to previous or next page.
A great ebook application shouldn't just let you read pages. Stanza offers options to streamline your reading. While viewing a page, just tap on the screen and you're allowed to jump through pages quickly using the scroll bar. Or you can tap on the search icon to search for keywords.
And, what makes Stanza stands out of other eBook applications is it offers a great collection of free eBooks for download. And it also covers free newspaper and magazines (Full content / summary) in its online library. The best of all, it's a free application and you can download it from App Store directly via this iTunes link.
If you have used any Windows mobile phone before, you may heard of eReader. eReader is a flagship product from Fictionwise that is one of the most popular ebook reader on mobile phones. Definitely, it won't ignore the iPhone market. While Stanza offers a great collection of free books and magazines, eReader focuses on premium eBook title. As of now, over 60,000 premium e-books are available for download via eReader.com and Fictionwise.com. You can easily find book title from top authors.
eReader offers an intuitive interface that you can navigate through the book content easily and it also lets you read book in both landscape & portrait mode. Another notable feature is that it lets you highlight any text and add note to it. You can always come back and view your note again. For those who take note while reading, this unique feature from eReader will be great for you.
eReader for iPhone is absolutely free and available for download via this iTunes link.
When it comes to book, we can't leave out the online book store giant - Amazon. The third eBook application is Kindle for iPhone. For starters who may not heard of Kindle, it is Amazon's flagship wireless digital book reader. The book titles sold for Kindle are specially formatted and at a discount price (~$9.99).
Last week, Amazon released Kindle App for iPhone, that lets iPhone users to read and purchase Kindle-formatted titles from Amazon. Like eReader and Stanza, Kindle displays the whole page on screen and you can flick through pages to navigate. By tapping on the screen, Kindle shows options for bookmark, changing font size or using the scroll bar to quickly navigate the book. Amazon also introduces a service called "Whispersync" that keeps track of the latest page you've read across iPhone and Kindle device.
However, don't expect you can download free book. Amazon only provide a sample chapter for you to download. To download the whole book, you need to pay. The Kindle store is now selling over 240,000 books and for most of the titles, they are selling at $9.99. It's quite unexpected you can't buy book directly inside Kindle app. Instead, Kindle launches a link via Safari for you to make a purchase.
Same as the other two applications, Kindle for iPhone is also free-of-charge. You can download Kindle application by using this direct iTunes links.
Stanza
First, it's Stanza from Lexcycle. Stanza has been rated by Time Magazine as one of the top 11 must-have iPhone applications. Once you download and install it on your iPhone, it instantly turns your iPhone into an amazing ebook device. The interface of Stanza is very simple and intuitive. Once you tap on a book title, you can read through the book page by page. A single page occupies the whole iPhone screen, so you don't have to scroll down the page. To turn to the next page, just flick through pages by using finger. Or you just tap on the left or right side of screen to turn to previous or next page.
Finding the eBook to read...
Reading the eBook...
A great ebook application shouldn't just let you read pages. Stanza offers options to streamline your reading. While viewing a page, just tap on the screen and you're allowed to jump through pages quickly using the scroll bar. Or you can tap on the search icon to search for keywords.
And, what makes Stanza stands out of other eBook applications is it offers a great collection of free eBooks for download. And it also covers free newspaper and magazines (Full content / summary) in its online library. The best of all, it's a free application and you can download it from App Store directly via this iTunes link.
eReader
If you have used any Windows mobile phone before, you may heard of eReader. eReader is a flagship product from Fictionwise that is one of the most popular ebook reader on mobile phones. Definitely, it won't ignore the iPhone market. While Stanza offers a great collection of free books and magazines, eReader focuses on premium eBook title. As of now, over 60,000 premium e-books are available for download via eReader.com and Fictionwise.com. You can easily find book title from top authors.eReader offers an intuitive interface that you can navigate through the book content easily and it also lets you read book in both landscape & portrait mode. Another notable feature is that it lets you highlight any text and add note to it. You can always come back and view your note again. For those who take note while reading, this unique feature from eReader will be great for you.
eReader for iPhone is absolutely free and available for download via this iTunes link.
Amazon's Kindle App for iPhone
When it comes to book, we can't leave out the online book store giant - Amazon. The third eBook application is Kindle for iPhone. For starters who may not heard of Kindle, it is Amazon's flagship wireless digital book reader. The book titles sold for Kindle are specially formatted and at a discount price (~$9.99).Last week, Amazon released Kindle App for iPhone, that lets iPhone users to read and purchase Kindle-formatted titles from Amazon. Like eReader and Stanza, Kindle displays the whole page on screen and you can flick through pages to navigate. By tapping on the screen, Kindle shows options for bookmark, changing font size or using the scroll bar to quickly navigate the book. Amazon also introduces a service called "Whispersync" that keeps track of the latest page you've read across iPhone and Kindle device.
However, don't expect you can download free book. Amazon only provide a sample chapter for you to download. To download the whole book, you need to pay. The Kindle store is now selling over 240,000 books and for most of the titles, they are selling at $9.99. It's quite unexpected you can't buy book directly inside Kindle app. Instead, Kindle launches a link via Safari for you to make a purchase.Same as the other two applications, Kindle for iPhone is also free-of-charge. You can download Kindle application by using this direct iTunes links.
If you are interested in mobile ebooks, you should check out Wattpad.com as well. It supports iPhone, BlackBerries and all Java phones.
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