I took the plunge today and purchased a few titles from eReader.com to test out my iPod touch as an ebook reader. I’m hoping that in a small way the touch might help me out in reducing the number of physical books I own.
As a sample I purchased the January and February issues of Asimov’s Science Fiction as well as the January – Febrauary 2009 edition of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It’s been a while since I’ve picked up either of these titles at my local newsagent so I thought they would be good titles to test out the device.
Also, in keeping with my 100 Books… project, I purchased a copy of the first book in the Christian Jacq ‘Ramses’ series, The Son of the Light.
If your already an iPhone or iPod touch owner you may have noticed a plethora of ebook applications (including those only including stand alone titles) in the App Store. Over the coming weeks I’ll be testing a few of these out.
In order to read these titles on the iPhone you need to download a copy of the free eReader application. Once downloaded they can only be viewed with this reader – either on the iPhone itself or on your computer of choice.
Downloading the titles to your iPhone can be done directly through the application…or you can purchase titles while browsing on your computer and download them directly from your iPhone at a later time.
December 27, 2008 at 12:54 am
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December 27, 2008 at 4:30 am
Personally I would choose MobiPocket. It is more adjustable for comforatble reading on smaller screens, and the “Mobi Creator” software they provide makes it easy to convert any book to this format.
It is what I use on my Blackberry.
Cheers,
Trevas