Thread: Is iBooks Kobo?
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Old 01-28-2010, 02:25 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by kjk View Post
nekokami, iBook's interface looks really familiar to me-the bookmarks, the completed so far indicator, the page turning..I just don't know where I saw it before. The bookshelf looks taken from Delicious Library or Classics.
Numerous book and media related apps emulate a shelf. The page turn effect is also trivial and commonly implemented amongst many applications, not even specifically the iPhone.

The fonts are of course, iPhone OS standard fonts.

There's really no reason this shouldn't all look familiar, as none of it is terribly original, even prior to all the iPhone targeted eBook apps. Even Shellfari website does the fake bookshelf looking thing.

Personally I suspect either this is entirely original work, or a licensing of part of classics. Though if original, it's obvious that it emulates popular variations of certain aspects of the eBook reading experience. This practice is pervasive in the software industry as well as in the writing industry, and pretty much every creative industry so it shouldn't come as any surprise.

That said, I really hope it's not Kobo. Kobo seems to have no way to load your own books. I don't want 25,000 eBook apps on my devices, and I intend to buy an iPad as it's pretty much everything I had been wanting from the QUEreader x 10, without the awful slow screen and unresponsive touch UI. I also hope that whatever iBooks is really based on, that it is made for the iPhone/iPod Touch as well.
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