I’ve been playing with my Inspiron Duo for the past few days, and I thought I’d take a few minutes to discuss which reading apps worked well on the touch screen. This is just an overview of the apps; some won’t need any more details and the ones that do will be covered in depth [...]
Entries Tagged as 'reading'
The Inspiron Duo ships with a Blio powered reading app
March 26th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news, hardware reviews
I’m working my way through installing reading apps on my Duo and I discovered that Dell’s strange little netbook convertible shipped with a reading app. It’s called Bookstage, and it’s powered by Blio. This isn’t much of a news item, but I haven’t seen it mentioned on other blogs. Engadget didn’t talk about it in [...]
How mobile phones can extend our daily reading experience
March 16th, 2011 · No Comments · opinion
by Piotr Kowalczyk Photo: Arvind Grover Reading on mobile phones is a subject of my continued fascination. How to help people read e-books on their phones? What to do to overcome popular prejudices? Certainly, mobile phones won’t be a primary e-reader for anyone who wants to read more than occasionally, but they can be very [...]
Take the ebrary reading survey
March 1st, 2011 · 2 Comments · surveys & polls
Ebrary, a digital library content distributor, is conducting apoll right now. They’re working to develop new ways to support an offline/download model and to reading on handheld devices. They want to better understand your needs, and they would very much appreciate your comments and suggestions. Update: This Survey is directed at librarians, and it asks [...]
New WordPress theme for long form reading
February 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · software news
This past Sunday Kirk Biglione created and uploaded a WordPress theme for iPads and tablets. It’s based on Bibliotype, a freely available html template. (If you want to see the theme in action, point your browser here.) Bibliotype was released about a month ago, and it’s not a commercial product so much as it’s an [...]
Aldiko voted most popular reading app
February 7th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Laptop Magazine have been running a contest over the past week to choose the best reading app.They just closed the polls today, and 169 out of 418 voters picked Aldiko (the Nook app came in second place). Do you see what’s wrong with that contest? I do, and there are many. First, when you have [...]
Kobo iPhone app gets social reading features
February 1st, 2011 · No Comments · software news
Kobo just announced an update to the Kobo iPhone app. The new version will now have all the really neat features that the iPad got some time back. Chris reviewed the iPad app about a month ago, and I think he wanted to have its baby. Kidding aside, I was really jealous of iPad owners [...]
Koobits is a marginal reading app
January 13th, 2011 · No Comments · software reviews
So this new Koobits reading app went live last week. I only just got a chance to play with it today and it’s not bad. I don’t like the color choice for the interface but the design is decent. There’s an integrated ebookstore, but you can also add your own ebooks. It didn’t work so [...]
iFlow reader takes reading down the wrong path
December 27th, 2010 · 8 Comments · software reviews
iFlow Reader is getting a lot of attention today. This is a new reading app for iOS, with different versions for iPhone and iPad. While it comes with a good set of reading options, iFlow’s one big pitch point is that it abandons page turns in favor of scrolling. This is so not a good [...]
Some light reading for the weekend
December 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
This photo popped up on Reddit today. You’re looking at an original reference doc for the Saturn V. It was originally published for the Apollo Lunar Program. Do you see the signature? That’s Werner von Braun. Do you have any idea how much that thing’s worth?!?
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