Iphones get electronic book reader
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Not that Apple users read
Monday, 12 January 2009, 09:12
AN OUTFIT called Shortcovers has come up with an application to turn iPhones into electronic books.
The app will allow people to read books, short stories or other written works on the Apple gadget and they hope it will be a competitor to book-readers flogged by Amazon and Sony.
It won't be of course. Apple users can't read anything without pictures and the Amazon and Sony gear uses ePaper which makes it easier to read. µ
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Been reading eBooks on my hacked iPod for over a year.
It works well enough, could be better of course, but it's good enough for the usual eBook data trash.
Anyone who's used the other eBook readers know they're good as well, but they also have their faults, like unnatural page refreshes. But hey, all this is still very early stages of a technology not widely adopted, with little financial motivation or cooperation from publishers.
With the slow demise of major newpapers and magazines, does anyone think publishers are embracing this technology before they are ready to move (having paid off all their old presses maybe).
BTW, with regards to the picture crack/comment, that's one advantage of things like the iPod/Phone, RIM Storm & other such devices; if there are illustrations they can do a good job of reproducing those images, whereas the others at best provide you a shadow of the originals.
PS, because publishers are so reluctant, the best source for eBooks, is the non-profit (for the good of humanity.. blah blah) Gutenberg project;
www.gutenberg.org/
How is this news? There have been plenty of ebook readers released on the app store - I've been using Stanza for months now. Maybe a little research should be done before simply regurgitating a press release?
So the crystalbothering gitwizard is here with another smug and not-at-all-researched waste of space. One word, "stanza".
ereader and stanza are both very good ebook apps
this unresearched article is little more than flame bait
so as its what you want:
j00 is dumbs!!!111 apple 4 EVARRR!!!111
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