What is your favorite reading app on smartphone ?
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Re: What is your favorite reading app on smartphone ?
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I have tried a few apps since discovering the world of E-Books but have found that literally none of them beat this one. I especially love that you are able to sync bookmarks between devices like tablets and iPhone's etc.
Kindle is my second favourite if your willing to pay for books
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i guess because Kindles are so popular the word Kindle means ereader in a lot of people's minds. But us old guys know better. I began reading ebooks about 1992 on an HP 95lx palmtop computer. That was an 11 ounce PC that fit nicely in a pocket and used 2 AA batteries. Actually ebooks had been around years before that, having been invented by Michael Hart, who later went on to found Gutenberg.org, in 1971.ChrissieLeigh wrote:Honestly, I had no idea that there were any aside from kindle but then again I pretty much swear by Amazon and I use my kindle.
When I first began reading ebooks not only had the Kindle not been invented yet, neither had Amazon. In fact buying things online was difficult and scarce. You couldn't buy ebooks online anyway. A bunch of people like me scanned books we liked and shared them on Compuserve.
At that point the internet had been invented but it wasn't available to the public. People used dial-in services like Compuserve and later AOL and Prodigy. The World Wide Web was still a long way in the future.
For years I read my ebooks, now just beginning to be called that, on a Palm Pilot. That was the device that popularized ebooks. Finally sites opened up to sell ebooks on the internet and ebooks as we know them were born.
There have been a lot of ereaders and a lot of ereading apps on every platform. Kindle and the Kindle app are one of the more recent ones. The Kindle app is also one of the least sophisticated ereading apps. Not that that's bad. It lets you read your book and that's what it's all about. And it gives you access to the world's biggest and best book store. No small thing.
The problem with the Kindle app really is that it's good enough. And because of that the many makers of better ereading apps can't compete. Amazon has the books and when you have the books nothing else really matters as long as your app is good enough.
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I particularly like that it lets me scroll instead of turn pages. For some reason that just seems more natural to me. No, I didn't grow up reading scrolls instead of books but maybe I should have.
There are a lot of other good reading apps as well. Moon+ is my favorite but I think some of the others are better known.
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Sarah_Khan wrote:My favorite would have to be Kobo, the design is simple and clear. They offer a lot of free e-books and a lot of fun options like highlighting, quoting, searching up a definition without having to exit the book or lose your page. I also like that they give you badges for passing certain goals.
That sounds like fun. I'll have to five it a try. Can anybody tell me how to contact support? (Real Person)
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