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Old 04-03-2010, 07:13 PM   #1
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Talking Reading on the iPad

Here's what I have:

The bad:
  • Stanza is not usable in full screen mode - fonts are aliased badly because the zoom didn't properly scale fonts
  • Same thing for B&N.
  • Same thing with txtr.
  • No white on black mode (night mode) in Apple's iBooks application
  • It's kind of heavy in comparison to other book readers on the market.

The good:
  • iBooks looks great, has bookmarking and dictionary. Easy to "highlight" words.
  • I love the interface in iBooks - it's extremely responsive. The page turning gesture is very fluid.
  • Search in iBooks is impressively fast, and the interface is extremely simple to use.
  • iBooks has a dimmer.
  • Kindle app works well.
  • Kobo app also works well.
  • Unrelated - but Netflix is awesome.
  • Importing books into iTunes is extremely simple. I just picked up the folder my Kindle library was in and dropped it into the Books section in iTunes. It recursively found all ePubs. It did not add any PDFs.
  • The ePubs of comics I made in Calibre look fantastic on this screen.

In general, I really like it. My biggest issue right now is the lack of Stanza. Since iBooks has no night mode, I really don't have a reading application right now that I can (happily) use for non-DRM ePubs.

Edit: I'm now using readMe to download books from calibre server. It works just fine for non-DRM ePubs, and has night mode.

Any more questions?

Last edited by nikkie; 04-04-2010 at 11:57 PM.
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