Comments on: iPhone + Ebooks: Partial Solutions, July Dreams

By: All About Apple iPhones

All About Apple iPhones — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:48:32 +0000

That was good articles today on Apple iPhones

By: John T.

John T. — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:56:57 +0000

Jonnie, only if you store more than two books. And even after that it’s $9 for 6 months. Realistically its almost nothing for such a wonderful reader.

By: Jonnie

Jonnie — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:33:05 +0000

John, you seem to have forgotten to mention that you need a paid subscription to use reader. I’m sure that was just an oversight.

By: John T.

John T. — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:01:32 +0000

reader by dBelement (http://reader.dbelement.com) has all the features of Books.app and so much more.

Not only is it faster, looks better and easier to use. It’s actually much simpler to put books on your phone and read them on the go. By far the best app on the iphone.

Not mentioning the fact that your phone doesn’t have to be jailbroken to use it.

By: Matt McClintock

Matt McClintock — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:23:23 +0000

I agree with bob weston – Books.app is very well done. The local storage, font-size adjustment, and the ability to invert the screen have made it the “must have” application for jailbroken iPhones.

The last step for Books.app is actually transferring the ebook to the iPhone, a process that requires scp, or sftp, or iPHUC right now; slightly too technical for a lot of folks. Manybooks.net (which has Project Gutenberg’s texts and others in Books.app format) has user bookshelves that can be added to Installer.app as repository sources… so that ebooks go directly from manybooks to your iPhone. Still a few too many steps.

I’m hoping WWDC brings eBooks to iTunes…

By: bob weston

bob weston — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:52:54 +0000

It’s true you have to jailbreak your iPhone to install it but I find Books.app to be by far the best solution since it not only lets you keep books to read on your iPhone itself but lets you adjust the font size to taste. Mostly I’ve converted Project Gutenberg books to HTML to read; I use MegaPhone to download the files; but I’ve also gotten books from BAEN in HTML.
It does have its problems, notably the lack of bookmark support and not all Apple supplied formats are available though that might be an Apple issue. The thing I’d most like to see added is a feature to make notes.
Anyway, since I got Books installed, most of my iPhone use is as a book reader.