The kid’s reading app Reading Rainbow has been available for the iPad and iPhone for nearly a year now, and it looks like it might finally be coming to Android.
Amazon sent out a tweet last night with an attached photo that hints at the possibility:
Look who stopped by the #Amazon office today, it’s @levarburton! Good things to come… twitter.com/amazonappstore…
— Amazon Appstore (@amazonappstore) May 21, 2013
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There’s a new version of the Google Play Books app in iTunes and Google Play today, and if you’re one of a handful of readers who buy ebooks from Google I think you might appreciate this.
According to the changelog, the new iOS app will enable users to download and read ebooks which they had previously uploaded to the Google Play Books website. The Android app also gained that feature as well as a newly refreshed menu design and other features.
Barnes & Noble
According to the press release, the Nook app for iPad can now display digital comics with Zoom view, B&N’s own name for the directed viewing mode found in most comic book apps (Kindle, comiXology, etc). That’s great news, or at least it was great news when this feature was added to the app in March 2013.
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Do you like library ebooks?
Baker & Taylor has just made it easier to check out and download library ebooks. They’ve just announced axisReader, a new reading app for Android, iPad, and iPhone which is integrated into B&T’s Axis360 platform.
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There’s a new update out today for the Kindle app for iPhone and iPad, and it’s going to make the app much more accessible to the visually impaired.
The app has been redesigned so it works better with the VoiceOver feature included in iOS. According to the press release this is going to make it “easier than ever for blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libraries, read and interact with their books, and more”.
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Amazon has pushed out another update for the Kindle Paperwhite recently, bringing a few useful improvements to this 6″ ereader.
The official update list is after the break, but it’s rather short. Amazon improved the dictionary look up feature and the KPW also reportedly has an improved search function.
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I don’t think Amazon likes me.
They’ve just rolled out a new update for the Kindle for Android app, and the one major change is the addition of the one single feature I don’t like from the Kindle Fire HD: the carousel.
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Tumblr has been busy this week first with the launch of their first mobile ads and then with the release of a Windows Phone app.
Today Tumblr added to their mobile efforts with a newly updated app for the iPhone and iPad. The new app lets users save posts to Pocket and Instapaper so they can be read later, and it also offers an option for saving a post so it can be read later in the Tumblr app.
The app also adds new sharing options, including both Twitter and Facebook as well as an option for emailing a post. Tumblr even provides a beautiful new template that will make sure the content is snarled in the process. And the update also brings minor interface changes. Animated GIFs continue to move while you scroll, a feature that I’m sure all will appreciate, and a vertical fling will close the photo you are viewing.
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Google rolled out an update for their reading app for the iPad and iPhone yesterday, giving the app a couple sweet features that Android users have had since last year.
Readers can now select a place name in the book they’re reading and (with luck) see a description and a map of the place. The data for the entry is drawn from Google Maps (as well as Google’s other data sources like Frommers). Unfortunately this feature does not seem to work all that well; I tried it in several ebooks and wasn’t given a location option. Or perhaps it requires a more specific location than simply a place name – a city and province, for example.
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AT&T might not be quite the monolithic Ma Bell of old but they do still have extensive research labs, and one project they’re working on promises to replace the monotonous narration of children’s ebooks with voices that are more distinct and entertaining.
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